We get to drive a variety of cool automobiles right here at Jalopnik, however we don’t essentially get to drive every little thing. Ferraris, for instance, are nonetheless off the desk, but it surely’s laborious to complain too loudly when Ruf lets us get behind the wheel of the SCR. Still, one automobile we’re disillusioned we haven’t gotten an opportunity to drive is an obscure off-roader designed for desert racing by the identical man who created a race automobile supposed to be pushed to the observe, raced after which pushed house. Yes, we’re speaking about the SCG Boot.
Lucky for us, although, our previous pal and pal of Jalopnik, Doug DeMuro lately received the chance to evaluate the SCG Boot, so we’re simply going to need to briefly dwell vicariously by way of him. Sadly, he didn’t get the chance to take the Baja-winning Boot off-road to essentially see what it may do, however as cool because the Boot is, we’ll simply need to accept a street drive and a radical clarification of the entire extremely distinctive SUV’s quirks and options.
For these of you who aren’t acquainted with the Boot, it’s constructed and offered by James Glickenhaus’s firm Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus, however the design isn’t solely unique. Instead, it’s impressed by the Hurst Baja Boot that Steve McQueen raced again within the Nineteen Sixties. But even when you recognize that there was a earlier off-roader up to now that appeared related, that doesn’t make the trendy Boot look any much less alien in a contemporary context. It’s simply so bizarre, and we completely like it.
Also, did we point out that it’s powered by a supercharged V8 that was within the Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 and Cadillac CTS-V? Or that the engine is mid-mounted? Who doesn’t want a 650-hp, mid-engine, somehow-street-legal SUV from an obscure automaker of their lives? Yeah, it could value $300,000, but it surely’s nonetheless a a lot cooler strategy to spend that type of cash than, say, a Ferrari Roma. You can’t even off-road a Roma.
Source: jalopnik.com