The Consulier was a two-thousand-pound, turbo-Chrysler-four-powered attempt to build a truly modern sporting automobile. Warren Mosler, its designer, once famously offered $25,000 to anybody who could beat the Consulier around a racetrack with a street car. Depending on how you read the events that then transpired, he was either vindicated or soundly beaten.
Regardless, due to Mr. Mosler’s withdrawal from the car biz, there are now some Consuliers for sale.
The remaining Mosler stock was acquired by a company that also purchased Rossion. Your humble author has been threatened with a lawsuit in the past for publicly discussing his opinion of Rossion and his experience with various parties who may or may not have been involved in the manufacture and/or marketing and/or sale of the Rossion, so let me just say that I do not recommend the purchase of a Rossion, the operation of a Rossion, or even looking at pictures of a Rossion for more than a moment or two at a time. Motor Trend just produced a very glossy advertorial for the Rossion where they slowly focus on bits of trim and show 1080p video of the car “racing” around a track four feet away from the curbs, but I don’t recommend you watch that video.
I also cannot recommend that you contact the people who have the remaining Consulier stock, but what the heck — it isn’t like I can come to your house and stop you. They are really neat cars, regardless of the parties involved. If you buy a Consulier and you want to share your experience with TTAC’s readers, let me know.
I just read on Wiki that some of these were modified to have a small-block Chevy dripped in.
Which would certainly add 150+ lbs of weight on the front-end and play a little havoc with the balance, braking and C.O.G., but CRIKEE!
That would just be raw!
I may be wrong, but I believe these are a mid-engine layout.
Spot on. Engine in the middle.
Sort of reminds me of another Cizeta type attempt, except more shoddy.
No, these were purely about function, not about V16 flash. There are a lot of “kit” companies doing the same concept, e.g. Noble Automotive, but Mosler was nuts enough to get federal certification for his cars.
I love reading the term V16. I could do it all day.
I believe that these were the first street legal composite chassis cars sold in the US, predating, for example, the Ferrari F40. At any rate, you cannot buy a clean F40 for $14K and fix it with K-car parts. Exotic car deal of the century, and its only 2013.
“the first street legal composite chassis cars sold in the US”
That would be the Lotus Elite in the late 1950s.
Completely sold out in 4 hours. The caged track car for $5k was crazy. Sad times, hope someone is going to hoon them as much as I was going to.
Didn’t find anything in a quick Google search about these Rossion threats. Was more interested in that than the Consulier.
I bought one of these that was for sale in this video. In fact, I bought that last one available. If you watch the video, I got the white/pink/teal targa car.
Story about seeing this car and then buying it 20 years later….
http://www.consuliergtp.com/consulierstory.html