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Written by Ollie Kew
Catchy name, huh? In fairness, most great F1 cars pinched names from dishwashers (MP4/4, FW16, W09 EQ Power+, I could go on).Like most F1 cars for the road", the OX99 came about as a sort of road-going billboard for a company"s F1 efforts. Yamaha was supplying F1 engines back in 1989, so by 1992 it wanted to make a street car to celebrate that fact. The tandem centre-seat OX99 was basically a wing, a steering wheel, and a 6.0-litre, 400bhp V12 that revved to over 10,000rpm.The noise was biblical. So were the development costs, and due to a recession in its homeland, what could have been Japan"s first hypercar was shelved with only three prototypes produced.
Date written: 19 Apr 2019
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Catchy name, huh? In fairness, most great F1 cars pinched names from dishwashers (MP4/4, FW16, W09 EQ Power+, I could go on).Like most F1 cars for the road", the OX99 came about as a sort of road-going billboard for a company"s F1 efforts. Yamaha was supplying F1 engines back in 1989, so by 1992 it wanted to make a street car to celebrate that fact. The tandem centre-seat OX99 was basically a wing, a steering wheel, and a 6.0-litre, 400bhp V12 that revved to over 10,000rpm.The noise was biblical. So were the development costs, and due to a recession in its homeland, what could have been Japan"s first hypercar was shelved with only three prototypes produced.
Date written: 19 Apr 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 15467
