Made in UAE – Jannarelly sportscar launched

All-new track-focussed sportscar designed and built in UAE goes on sale

By Shahzad Sheikh

!!UPDATE!! – 3 March 2017

We get a ride in the prototype!

 


Wednesday evening at Tomini Classics in Dubai saw the launch of the third UAE-designed and built car – read about the Zarooq Motors Sand Racer and Shaali N360 (Dubai Roadster) here. Click below to watch an interview with Co-Founder and designer (he also designed the Zarooq) Anthony Jannarelly, who takes us on a walk-around of his baby and the latest UAE-made car.

The Jannarelly Design-1 Launch Edition is a completely new car from the ground up with bespoke chassis and a designed inspired by road-going sportscars of the 1960s – and you can see hints of Ferrari, Ford GT40, Jaguar D-Type and of course the AC Cobra in the styling.

Jannarelly Design-1 Launch Edition - UAE-made sports car

It features a mid-mounted Nissan 3.5 V6 (from the Z car) putting out 304bhp and 274lb ft, driving the rear wheels through a 6-speed manual with a limited slip diff. The whole car weights just 710kg so that’s good for 0-100kph in just 4 seconds and 220kph – since they haven’t tested a running car yet, these are computer-generated estimates. The car shown in this video and pictures is a prototype that’s built up to 95% of the production car.

Jannarelly Design-1 Launch Edition - UAE-made sports car

It has double-wishbones front and rear suspension set-up, adjustable coil over dampers and a short ratio steering rack. The engineers told me it will be initially set up more biased towards understeer, but that it could easily be tuned and set up according the customer’s requests and desires.

Jannarelly Design-1 Launch Edition - UAE-made sports car

This display prototype had no brakes, but it will have Brembos fitted and the light alloys get 225/50R16 Toyos on the front and 245/45R16s on the back. The body is carbon fibre and fibreglass and even the seats are carbon fibre. Inside you just get the bare essentials though they’ll somewhat grudgingly fit a stereo if you must have one!

Jannarelly Design-1 Launch Edition - UAE-made sports car

These cars will be fully road-legal and you will be able to register them in the UAE, as well as other markets as the Jannarelly’s business model is as much about export as it is for the local market. In fact a European dealer has already been appointed and talks are underway with potential distributors in the USA.

Jannarelly Design-1 Launch Edition - UAE-made sports car

With complete cars starting testing by the end of June, first shipments are expected at the end of July with deliveries by September. Cars will be built at a rate of five per month. The price starts at AED202,000 ($55,000) and they are taking orders now with a 10% deposit.

We’ll bring you more information including a first try of the car as soon as we can.

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