Buy Falcon Motorsports and get your own supercar company

Posted on March 31, 2021
Supercars
Buy Falcon Motorsports and get your own supercar company

It takes years to start a car company, but now, for $675,000, you can buy the entire supercar builder, Falcon Motorsports.

According to the online ad, first spotted by Jalopnik on Monday, the sale includes "tools, molds, material lists, and other items currently owned by Falcon," as well as "all logos, slogans, trademarks, copyrights, know-how, processes, trade secrets, formulas, inventions, engineering data, electronic databases, all drawings, license agreements, and all other intellectual property and/or proprietary information relating to Falcon vehicles."

Granted, only seven Falcon cars were built, and that short production run ended several years ago. However, what the Falcon produced was a worthy addition to the pantheon of supercars.

The company started with Dodge Viper body kits and other modifications, then tried its hand at its own complete car. The resulting Falcon F7 was unveiled at the 2012 Detroit Auto Show.

The F7 was powered by GM's LS7 7.0-liter V-8 engine that produced 620 hp and 580 lb-ft of torque. It drove the rear wheels via a Ricardo six-speed manual transaxle. Carbon fiber bodywork and aluminum interior tubes (the actual chassis was hydroformed tube-frame steel) kept the car's weight down to 2,785 pounds, and a Corvette-derived suspension handled the handling. When Falcon introduced the car, it was priced at $250,000.

It apparently did not generate much interest. Falcon initially planned to produce 20 cars per year, but never got that far. One of the seven cars that were eventually built was recently offered at Cars and Bids and sold for the high price of $122,000. It will probably get a new lease of life under a different owner, but the American supercar maker's track record is not optimistic.

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