The $1.8 Million Oilstainlab HF-11 Will Make 1,200 HP

Oilstainlab’s HF-11 is the kind of supercar that is a certain kind of purist’s dream: retro looks, lightweight, rear-wheel drive, and manual transmission available. It also offers up big power from an internal-combustion engine—or 1,200 brake horsepower, to be exact—and a near-production version revealed recently that shows how far along Oilstainlab‘s project has come.

The HF-11 will have the option of two different engines, a 4.6-liter six-cylinder or a 5.0-liter six-cylinder, with the former making 600 brake horsepower and the latter up to 1,200. A six-speed manual transmission is available, as is a seven-speed automatic. The 5.0-liter engine will even redline at 12,000 rpm, according to Top Gear. The EV version, meanwhile, will make 800 brake horsepower; every version will send the power to the rear wheels. Oilstainlab hasn’t said how quick it will be, though a three-second zero-to-60 time doesn’t sound out of the question.

When we first heard about this car last October, the 5.0-liter engine wasn’t being talked about, but now that the HF-11 is edging closer to production, more details are being revealed. Top Gear, for example, says that Oilstainlab’s carbon tub supplier is Crawford Composites, a North Carolina company that has built components for Le Mans, Formula 1, and IndyCar racers.

Oilstainlab thinks the internal-combustion-engine version of the car will weigh less than a ton. The HF-11 is, in other words, a lot, and, with so many different things still up in the air, a bit hard to consider a sure thing just yet. Pictures of a pre-production version surfaced on Instagram a few days ago and confirm that it looks stunning. The founders have their heart in the right place.

“A lot of restomods are not really restomods [because] there’s almost no car left,” Nikita Bridan, one of Oilstainlab’s founders, told Robb Report last year. “For us, we’re not really a hypercar . . . we don’t chase a performance metric. We’re not setting a world record, we’re not trying to be faster than anybody. We’re genuinely just trying to put the biggest smile on the driver’s face every time.”

Just 25 HF-11s are planned, with each costing $1.8 million.

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