Devon Motor Works GTX

In all the hubbub of the bankruptcies, corporate chatter and Devon Motor Work's bid for Chrysler's (Dodge) Viper I missed something very interesting. What is that? Devon Motor Works itself!  They are a American company aiming to produce a sports car. They've introduced renderings of the car they plan on producing, dubbed the GTX.

What's not clear is what they intend to do if their bid succeeds; continue building the Viper as it is or base their car's designs off the Viper's platform while continuing to use the name. Fact is though, the Viper is a good car and is a profitable business so I think it would be a dumb move on their part to mess with that.

Devon Motor Works has a goal to break the world lap record for a production car at the Nurburgring race track in Germany. They plan to give attempt a go in July, with a pre production debut of the car's design in August at the Pebble Beach Concours de Elegance.

The design is interesting; a curvy retro-type design done by Swedish designer Daniel Paulin, a previous employee of Ford. The funny thing about this is that I have never heard of Devon Motor Works before this. That right there shows they did something right with this. Either way it works in their favor; they get a ton of publicity for the bid and don't end up getting Viper or they get a ton of publicity and end up getting a screaming deal.

So Devon Motor Works is looking good with whatever happens. Stay tuned next month for the first glimpse of the car at Nurburging and in August at the Pebble Beach Concours.