Lyons Motor Car

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Lyons Motor Car Inc
Company type Private
Industry Automotive
Headquarters New York, New York
Key people
Kevin W. Lyons (CEO, President)
ProductsLuxury Automobiles / Car Club
Owner90% Ownership under Kevin W. Lyons
Number of employees
12 (2023)
Subsidiaries Lyons Motor Club Inc
Website lyonsmotorcar.com [ dead link ]
Lyons Motor Car, Streamliner Super Sport Glamour Photo. Streamliner in bathed in gold-01.png
Lyons Motor Car, Streamliner Super Sport Glamour Photo.

Lyons Motor Car is a US-based automobile developer and manufacturer based in New York City. The company's first vehicle, the Streamliner Super Sport, debuted as the LM2 Streamliner concept in April 2015. [1]

The company was founded by Kevin W. Lyons, a graphic designer and automobile aficionado. Having developed skills in steel fabrication and customizing, he completed several replica show cars, [2] [3] and was encouraged by this to begin designing cars and start his own exclusive automobile manufacturing company.

Streamliner Super Sport & ELM

The Streamliner Super Sport is a vehicle constructed fully in carbon fiber with a mid-mounted, dual overhead cam, 8.2-liter billet aluminum twin turbocharged Revolution 4 cam V8 developed by Nelson Racing Engines [4] in Chatsworth, California.

The vehicle is described as a hypercar with a 2500hp engine, 1754lb/ft of torque, a top speed estimated at 318 mph (512 km/h), and an acceleration from 0 to 60mph of 2.2 seconds. [5] It has a length of 181.9 in (462 cm), a height of 43.5 in (110 cm), a width of 78.5 in (199 cm), and a wheelbase of 109.3 in (2,780 mm).

Streamliners are to be fitted with P365 30ZR21 rear tires and P285 30ZR20 front tires with an optional 21-inch and 22-inch wheel. The car uses a Haldex all wheel drive front differential with a custom billet 7-speed sequential gearbox mounted in front. The twin turbocharged V8 is mounted with accessory drives facing rearward. The rear differential is a Strange Engineering 1320 9" G-Force S60.

The car was originally scheduled to debut during the 2015 New York International Auto Show, but the company announced that it wasn't ready in time for the media press days. [6] Company administrators debuted the non-running concept model during the public days.

The company now intends to launch the vehicle in the 2025 new car model year. It will be branded Streamliner Super Sport, leaving the LM2 Lyons Motors twin-turbo Streamliner as a concept car. [7] Additional planned variants are the Streamliner GTS and the ELM-GT, which are long-tail, sleeker versions of the Super Sport, as well as the Super Silhouette, a four-passenger hyper sedan. Each variant will be available with either ICE or EV powertrains.

The Streamliner Super Sport is planned to use the same power plant as the announced concept but boosted to 2500hp and 1754lbs/ft of torque. The company plans a total of 15 Streamliner Super Sports in its first production year, with a continued Streamliner series of 25 cars per year.

In January 2018, the company expressed interest in offering a plug-in electric option for the Streamliner called "Streamliner ELM" (Electrified Lyons Motors). [8] Cosmetically identical to the Super Sport, this variant would feature four 480hp direct drive single pole motors driving each wheel independently, via vectored all-wheel drive offering about 2000hp.

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