NILU27, White

Sasha Selipanov's Nilu was unveiled privately on 8 August 2024 and shown in public at Pebble Beach a week later, and it is built around an analogue idea. The only screen is the rear-view mirror, there are no driving modes, and the gauges are three-dimensional dials. The 6.5-litre V12 from Hartley Engines in New Zealand is naturally aspirated, with its exhaust headers in the valley of the 80-degree vee feeding a twelve-into-one manifold called the snakepit, and it drives through a seven-speed manual. The plan is 15 cars that are not road legal, then 54 homologated for the road, built by Aria Group in Irvine, California.

FrontiArt paints this one white, with a black canopy, carbon sills and white five-spoke wheels on tyres with chequered sidewall graphics. A small 27 sits on each door and the nilu name on the nose. The tail holds most of the detail: the triple exhaust outlets sit in a carbon and gold shield above the open engine bay, where the white tubular subframe, the suspension and the engine are on show between grilles of round red tail lamps. The carbon weave base carries FrontiArt's plaque. FrontiArt builds it in resin at 1:18.