One Man's Hand-Built Supercar

An Italian gearhead constructs a sportster of his own design entirely by himself over four years
By Mike Spinelli Posted 04.17.2008 at 5:26 pm 9 Comments
The Uragano Hand-Built Supercar:
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What's in Northern Italy's water that leads industrious people to spend great portions of their lives building race cars? Who knows. Maybe the FIA’s been pumping diolefin-rich racing fuel into Emilia-Romagna’s reservoirs, thereby insinuating Formula One into the local tortellini Bolognese.

Whatever it is, Modena’s favorite son, the late Enzo Ferrari, had nothing on 47-year-old Filandri Moreno. He’s the guy who hand-built this Uragano (Hurricane) supercar. It took him four years; Moreno outsourced almost none of the job, fabricating the body, frame, suspension, brakes and steering systems entirely by hand da solo. One part he didn’t build was the engine (you think he had all decade?). For that he turned to his neighbors across the Brenner Pass. Moreno incorporated a 4.2-liter V8 from a ten-year-old Audi A8 sedan into the Uragano’s central engine compartment.

Some carbuilders create such works as concept cars to attract backing for their dream of starting their own specialty marque. Moreno just did it because he wanted to. Now that’s Italian.

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Via Autoblog.it [translated]

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waytooslow
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 04/18/08 at 1:18 am

it takes a true car guy to build his dream car from the ground up and not just buying some ferrari.

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Chilicheeze
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 04/18/08 at 5:21 am

I wonder if it has real Corinthian leather?

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dontbother
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 04/18/08 at 9:34 pm

This looks like something a 12 year old has designed in the 1980's. Very unoriginal overall, especially with the sheer amount of great supercar models nowadays, Enzo, Koenigsegg, Ascari, Farboud, Zonda, etc.

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FelixMortane
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 04/18/08 at 11:40 pm

Sorry to have to tell you this, but I don't think he made it to impress you.

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3DTOPO
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 04/19/08 at 12:45 pm

OK fine he built a car that _looks_ like a supercar and he can park it. But how does it perform?

Just because it looks like a supercar does not mean it performs like one.

Some obvious questions come to mind like: What type of suspension does it have? How fast does it accelerate? What does it do the 1/4 mile in?

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indiancarblog
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 04/19/08 at 5:54 pm

A wonderful job by an enthusiastic and passionate individual whose spent his time following and believing in his goal of creating his own supercar..

cheers
indiancarblog.blogspot.com

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dontbother
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 04/25/08 at 10:07 am

The pictures are great, but I'd definitely like to see some stats.

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luke123abc
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 04/25/08 at 6:34 pm

i think its amazing. i wonder if he built a jet engine turbo shaft to put in it how fast it would go? also i wonder how good it could really preform with an old engine like that. i bet the rest is well, but the engien im shaky on

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luke123abc
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 04/25/08 at 6:34 pm

i think its amazing. i wonder if he built a jet engine turbo shaft to put in it how fast it would go? also i wonder how good it could really preform with an old engine like that. i bet the rest is well, but the engien im shaky on

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