Saleen Planning New Super Cars and Commercial Electric Vehicles

SaleenSaleenUnited States of America, 1983 > 20094 models
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is staging a comeback and founder Steve Saleen is spearheading it. Saleen left the company that bore his name in 2007, and the company sold its assets and was purchased by an acquisitions company. Saleen has won back the use of his name for new products and formed a new company called Saleen Automotive, which has merged with the original Saleen Autosport. The next step is to start creating new cars. 

The company has raised $3 million in new funding to create new products and will supplement its income by selling its existing tuning products for modern American muscle cars, especially Ford MustangsSaleen 351United States of America, 2013 > 2000.

The first new cars from Saleen will be a new supercar and electric cars for commercial markets.

"We are excited to become a publicly-traded company and enter into the next stage of our growth, as we bring these automobiles into the mainstream and grow our retail presence into new markets in the U.S. We are also developing high-performance electric vehicles targeting the zero-emissions segment," said Saleen.

Saleen started its careers building highly modified supercharged Mustangs. It launched the S7Saleen S7United States of America, 2000 > present1 photo
in 2000 with a carbon fiber body and aluminum space frame. The original cars used a 7.0-liter Ford V8 with 550hp. In 2005 it introduced the twin-turbocharged S7 that boosted power to 750hp. It also built the S7RSaleen S7RUnited States of America, 2001 > present2 photos
racing version with help from RML and Oreca. It scored a class win at Le Mans in 2010.

Source: Motor Authority