“We had customers who did safari tours with us and said ‘we want the coolest car possible for this, and we don’t care what it costs,’’ says Jan Kalmar, founder of Kalmar Automotive. ‘That’s how the 7-97 RS-R came about.’ The cost is indeed quite a lot (around half a million pounds), but having driven the RS-R on an ice track in northern Finland, we can confirm that it delivers rather a lot of fun, too. Think the essential analogue driving dynamics of a classic 911 mixed with the huge roll angles and grin factor of an Ariel Nomad.
