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 is developing their first vehicle, the Streamliner Super Sport, which debuted as the LM2 Streamliner concept in April 2015. [1]

The company was founded by Kevin W. Lyons, a Graphic Designer, and automobile aficionado. Kevin W. Lyons flare for steel fabrication and customizing led him to the completion of several notable replica show cars. [2] [3] These successes encouraged him to design and start his own exclusive automobile manufacturing company, in the direction of other small supercar and hypercar automobile builders.

Streamliner Super Sport & ELM

Streamliner Super Sport is a fully carbon fiber constructed vehicle 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 Lyons Motor Car Streamliner Super Sport is an American hypercar in development with 2500 hp engine with 1754 lb/ft of torque" and a top speed estimated at 318 mph (512 km/h). It will accelerate from 0-60 mph calculated to 2.2 seconds with a 0-60 mph target of 1.96 seconds and 0-100 mph in 3.1 seconds. [5] The Streamliner Super Sport 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 109.3 in (2,780 mm). Streamliners are fitted with P365 30ZR21 rear tires and P285 30ZR20's 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, with the twin turbocharged V8 uniquely mounted with accessory drives facing rearward. The rear differential is a Strange Engineering 1320 9" G-Force S60.

It was originally scheduled to debut during the 2015 New York International Auto Show, but the company claimed 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.

To date (2019-03-17), the company has made serious efforts to complete their pre-production prototype.

The company has announced a launch for their hypercar in the 2025 new car model year, which will be branded Streamliner Super Sport, leaving the LM2 Lyons Motors twin-turbo Streamliner as a concept car. [7] Additional variants will include the Streamliner GTS and 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 2500 horsepower and 1754 lbs/ft.

The company plans a total of 15 Streamliner Super Sports first production year, with a continued Streamliner series of 25 cars per year.

As of January 2018, the company expressed interest in offering a plug-in electric option for the Streamliner called "Streamliner ELM" (Electrified Lyons Motors). [8] This cosmetically identical counterpart to the Streamliner Super Sport would feature 4 480 horsepower direct drive single pole motors driving each wheel independently, via vectored all-wheel drive offering about 2000 horsepower.

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