Chief designer for Caterham makes supercar set to cost almost $1 million

This is the Jannarelly AElla-60 (spelled ‘Ælla-60’), a fascinating modern-day supercar that looks like a 1960s race car, and it was designed by the head of design for Caterham.

If you can gloss over the slightly odd the name, the car is a serious performance-focused beast.

And it’s powered by an old-school V8, not an electric unit.

The only problem is it doesn’t come cheap.

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A supercar that almost looks like a grand tourer

The Ælla-60/AElla-60 – but maybe we should just call it the ’60’ for the sake of simplicity – was designed by Anthony Jannarelly, chief designer for Caterham.

Jannarelly decided to go solo and do his own thing, but while the Caterham Seven is a rugged sports car with a strong focus on performance and almost zero concessions to comfort, the 60 almost looks like a grand tourer.

The engine is a naturally-aspirated 3.6-liter V8, paired to a six-speed manual and with no added electric power, capable of producing 473 horsepower.

It does 0-62mph in just 3.5 seconds.

The company said only 65 units will be built, including five ‘Founders’ models that can be customized by customers.

The price is a bit steep, though.

The 60 costs €865,000 – equivalent to more than USD $900,000.

When car designers go solo

Jannarelly isn’t the only car designer that decided to branch out and create his own thing.

Nilu27 is arguably the most famous example we’ve seen in recent times.

It was created by a former Koenigsegg designer.

It has over 1,000 horsepower, and it also has a manual gearbox.

When we asked Sasha Selipanov, the man behind this wild hypercar, why he built like that, his answer was magnificently practical.

“I made a 1,000 horsepower car with a manual gearbox because that’s how I wanted it,” he told supercarblondie.com.