It might look like a V10-powered van that can hit 60 mph in under 3 seconds and sounds like the support vehicle for the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, but it's really a sort of gift that two companies gave to themselves after working together for a decade. Those companies are Renault and Matra, the latter of which was building the Espace minivan for the former. And of course, at the time Renault was building a winning V10-powered F1 car.

And that's pretty much the extent of the justification for this engineering exercise. Essentially, this is the upper body shell of a production Espace grafted onto a carbon fiber floorpan, with the running gear of the 1993 Williams-Renault FW15C, uncorked to the tune of 800 hp. In other words, it's basically an F1 car wearing a minivan-shaped hat, and so its starting procedure is identical to a contemporary F1 car—and external starter and an external computer, and several human attendants, are required to get it moving.

Once it's moving, though, it's indescribable. And that sound …

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