Renowned for building sports cars in the past, the Brits from Frazer-Nash shifted their interest by putting all their efforts into developing hybrid drive systems. And although they’re not building cars anymore, together with the Italian designers from Giugiaro the new Namir was born. Fast and agile as a tiger (Namir in Arabic), the concept has been unveiled at this year’s Salon in Geneva as a green supercar and claims the title for the “fastest hybrid in the world. With power coming from two electric engines, a large 400V lithium polymer battery and an 800cc gasoline rotary engine that works as a generator, Namir manages to output nothing less than 370 hp – enough to take it 0 to 100km/h in just 3.7 seconds and to 200km/h in a mere 10.4 seconds. With a top speed of 300 km/h we can only imagine what an experience it would be to drive that one. [via WCF]

Geneva has all kind of goodies this year. Here is Automotive Designer House Giugiaro that came up with the Quaranta hybrid concept that almost killed a few of us when they unveiled it. The new Quaranta is using a Hybrid system that was developed by Toyota together with Honda and is actually based on Lexus’ RX400h Hybrid Crossover.

Giugiaro Quaranta is running on a 3.0L V6 engine that sports 286 bhp and 288 Nm of torque, is able to go 0 to 100 km/h in about 4 seconds, uses Toyota’s Hybrid Synergy Drive system and a CVT transmission. These are all great specs and I don’t think much could be said about the exterior. Yes it’s true Quaranta is a little low but the smart suspension can raise it 230mm if needed. The roof seems to have solar panels to charge the batteries and power the electronics it has inside.

It’s a great supercar concept, what do you think?

via AutoBlog