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Some of you are still registering some retinal activity after viewing the Alar. For you, the horn of plenty continues to spill forth its fruit: the official brochure for the Alar has been released. It’s difficult to tell from Argentina Auto Blog if the brochure is more than two pages — but what more do you really need to know?

Joan Fercí’s creation, with a Klingon’s visage and the backside of a Starship Trooper bug, goes on sale in March, 2008. As if the car weren’t eye-watering enough, the price — $750,000 large — is enough to make anyone reach for the Kleenex. However, for that, you get a top speed of 410 kph (254.2 mph), which either puts it right at the Bugatti Veyron’s top speed or a hair above it. Either way, it’s nice to know that you’ll be able to go fast enough that no one else can see you and hurt themselves.

If it makes you feel any better, know that the Alar didn’t spring whole from Ferci’s pen like Athena from Zeus’ head. Rather, as you can see from the other models (Coatl and Eros GT-1), he has been working up to it, honing his craft, like Michelangelo releasing Moses from the granite slab. Or something like that.

[Source: Argent]

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It’s official. Joan Ferci’s bizarre, rebodied Lamborghini Diablo dubbed the Alar has finally been revealed in Buenos Aires, and it is everything it’s cracked up to be. Not that that’s necessarily a good thing. The Diablo’s muscular looks are jettisoned in favor of the Alar’s wacky new bodywork, which looks like the aftermath of a one night stand between an alien life form and Captain Nemo’s submarine, the Nautilus. In 1987.

If you click through to Argentina Auto Blog, which has been single-handedly leading the coverage of the Alar’s progress, you can have a look at additional shots of the car at its unveiling, where it’s placed next to an unmodified Diablo. $750,000 and a lapse in good judgement is all it’ll take to stick an Alar in your garage.

[Source: Argentina Auto Blog]
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Joan Ferci, the designer who somehow has permission to slap Lamborghini badges on the fishlike creations his mind comes up with, has actually found three buyers for the bizarrely-named, ridiculously-styled, Coatl sports car. According to Argentina Auto Blog, which has led the way regarding coverage of all things Ferci, reports that these Coatl production cars will have 350 horsepower and a top speed of 300 km/h. The original “Lamborghini” Coatl Ferci produced (shown above) was Diablo-based, boasted a far more robust 675 horsepower and was priced at over $600,000. The cars being built and sold now are supposedly under $100,000 each. Whether they use any Lamborghini mechanicals at all is a complete mystery, but the low power output and price compared to the original is puzzling, to say the least.

Ferci is still looking for a location upon which to build the manufacturing facility for his most recent Diablo-derived creation, the gratuitously ugly Lamborghini Alar. For reasons only Ferci knows, the Alar (concept version shown at right) looks like it’s wearing a Spider-Man costume when viewed from above. The mind reels.

[Source: Argentina Auto Blog]

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UPDATE: We misread the original Argentina Auto Blog piece when we reported that Joan Ferci has found buyers for three Coatls. it reality, he’s building three of the cars in the hopes of finding buyers for them. The Coatl remains as bizarre and fishlike as ever, and everything else below holds true.

Joan Ferci, the designer who somehow has permission to slap Lamborghini badges on the fishlike creations his mind comes up with, has actually found three buyers for the bizarrely-named, ridiculously-styled, Coatl sports car. According to Argentina Auto Blog, which has led the way regarding coverage of all things Ferci, reports that these Coatl production cars will have 350 horsepower and a top speed of 300 km/h. The original “Lamborghini” Coatl Ferci produced (shown above) was Diablo-based, boasted a far more robust 675 horsepower and was priced at over $600,000. The cars being built and sold now are supposedly under $100,000 each. Whether they use any Lamborghini mechanicals at all is a complete mystery, but the low power output and price compared to the original is puzzling, to say the least.

Ferci is still looking for a location upon which to build the manufacturing facility for his most recent Diablo-derived creation, the gratuitously ugly Lamborghini Alar. For reasons only Ferci knows, the Alar (concept version shown at right) looks like it’s wearing a Spider-Man costume when viewed from above. The mind reels.

[Source: Argentina Auto Blog]

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