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You Can Now Get in Line to Order Saleen’s Newest Sports Car

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You Can Now Get in Line to Order Saleen’s Newest Sports Car

Pricing for the street-legal version of the S1 starts at $160K, but refundable reservations cost just one band.

It seems that revealing or launching cars you first announced more than half a decade ago is in vogue right now. After another delay, Tesla is planning to reveal the Roadster on October 15, nearly 10 years after it was first unveiled. Saleen is in a similar boat. The American sports car manufacturer, which garnered fame for the vaunted S7, has officially opened up reservations for the S1 Street roughly eight years after it was first shown at the 2018 Los Angeles auto show.

Unlike many American supercars that live by the phrase “there’s no replacement for displacement,” the S1 Street is built to be lightweight and agile. If things haven’t changed since the S1 was first revealed, the Saleen features carbon-fiber bodywork that’s neatly wrapped over an aluminum chassis. The company has also claimed it weighs just 2685 pounds.

That low curb weight means that the S1 will be plenty quick, despite a relatively pedestrian—for 2026 standards—horsepower figure. According to Saleen, the road-legal version of the S1 will make 450 horsepower, 425 pound-feet of torque, and sprint from zero to 60 mph in 3.2 seconds. In road configuration, the automaker claims a top speed of 171 mph. The race configuration rocks the same power figures as the road car, but it drops the 60-mph time to 2.9 seconds and increases the top speed to 180 mph.

Pricing for the road-bound S1 starts at $160,000 (likely not including destination).


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