Sunday Drive: Gillet Vertigo .5 Spirit

The Gillet Vertigo is one of the lightest and quickest exotics on the road.

Ladies and Gents, take in the Gillet Vertigo .5 Spirit.  Still scratching your head?  Its okay, the Belgian company started by former race car driver Tony Gillet produces one of the most obscure and rare supercars on the market.  Ya, you only thought Belgium was good for beer and waffles.  The company describes the car as the epitome of the "pleasure of driving sensations in a work of art object."  No objections here.

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Built on a carbon-fiber chassis, the car weighs a little over 2,000 lbs.  The previous version of the Belgian exotic was equipped with a 350-horsepower 3.0-liter V6 sourced from Alfa Romeo that gave it a 0-60 of 3 seconds.  New for the Vertigo.5 model is is a Maserati-sourced 4.2 L V8 under the hood, putting out an impressive 420 hp.  Doing the math, we could be looking at a sub-3 second 0-60 and even more impressive performance.

 

Waffles anyone?