With his eventual goal to bring fame and automotive glory to his homeland of Lebanon, 25-year-old design student David Frem has completed the first stage in what he characterizes as “a dream to make a car that could race Ferrari” – the wildly strange Frem F1.
A product of three years of study, three years of “rather hard work”, a ballsy and single-minded determination, and more than a few styling cues from Ferrari’s Enzo supercar; the Frem should get extra points for the passion behind it, if none for the execution. While Frem concedes that the F1 is just a step on the path towards the construction of an honest supercar – a project that has already been appropriately dubbed “F2” – the car still has the running gear to make it a vaguely sporting drive, at least on paper. The oily bits are mostly of Volkswagen origin, with a 2.0-liter (we’re guessing the “2.00 cc” designation is a slight misprint) 16-valve engine and Audi gearbox. The F1 has a theoretical top speed of 124 miles per hour though its “wood and fabric” interior doesn’t exactly seem up to the jostling of triple-digit speeds, even if its hand-made body could stand the fury.
Frem’s F1 is, as far as we can make out anyway, the first and only all-Lebanese supercar ever attempted, and will do its damnedest to represent its Beirut origins when it comes to the hallowed halls of Cobo for the North American International Auto Show in 2009. You can bet that we’ll be all over Frem’s stand in Detroit, with many more images and details regarding Frem’s vision.
+ YaLibnan
A product of three years of study, three years of “rather hard work”, a ballsy and single-minded determination, and more than a few styling cues from Ferrari’s Enzo supercar; the Frem should get extra points for the passion behind it, if none for the execution. While Frem concedes that the F1 is just a step on the path towards the construction of an honest supercar – a project that has already been appropriately dubbed “F2” – the car still has the running gear to make it a vaguely sporting drive, at least on paper. The oily bits are mostly of Volkswagen origin, with a 2.0-liter (we’re guessing the “2.00 cc” designation is a slight misprint) 16-valve engine and Audi gearbox. The F1 has a theoretical top speed of 124 miles per hour though its “wood and fabric” interior doesn’t exactly seem up to the jostling of triple-digit speeds, even if its hand-made body could stand the fury.
Frem’s F1 is, as far as we can make out anyway, the first and only all-Lebanese supercar ever attempted, and will do its damnedest to represent its Beirut origins when it comes to the hallowed halls of Cobo for the North American International Auto Show in 2009. You can bet that we’ll be all over Frem’s stand in Detroit, with many more images and details regarding Frem’s vision.
+ YaLibnan