Rare Superlite SL-C turned Los Angeles traffic into car-spotter paradise

Every now and then, a unicorn appears in the carpool lane, and this rare Superlite SL-C definitely turned heads in Los Angeles commuter traffic.

Redditor can_of_turtles snapped a pic of the low-slung, racecar-looking weapon crawling down the 101, posting it with the caption, ‘What car is this?’

The answers poured in thick and fast as Reddit identified the car.

And now the online forum is abuzz with excitement as people wonder what it was doing on the SoCal road.

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The mystery machine in traffic

Within minutes of the picture being posted, the crowd had solved it. 

The mystery is a Superlite SL-C. 

Not exactly your average commuter car.

One user claimed it’s a show car mainstay, swearing ‘that dude shows up to every single SoCal car show.’ 

Another countered they’d never seen it in Orange County before – a classic case of car-spotter FOMO.

Of its appearance on the 101, one Redditor noted the SL-C would be ‘miserable to drive in that traffic.’ 

Others just appreciated its looks, comparing it to prototypes like the Corvette Daytona – not a bad compliment for a kit you can actually buy.

Either way, the vibe was clear: sitting bumper-to-bumper next to a red and black SL-C is basically a free front-row ticket to a car show. 

LA freeways may be a nightmare, but sometimes they double as the best automotive museum in the country.

What makes the Superlite SL-C special

The SL-C isn’t just another exotic-shaped kit car. 

It’s the product of engineers who built it from scratch – no hand-me-down chassis or panels from decades past. 

Every curve, weld, and suspension arm was designed in-house. 

The result is a carbon-kevlar body so clean you don’t even need paint. 

Buff the gelcoat, wrap it if you want, and go.

Underneath, it’s all business. 

It has a TIG-welded chassis, CNC-machined aluminum uprights, and race-derived adjustable shocks. 

The geometry is dialed for actual performance – camber curves, bump-steer, the works. 

This isn’t cosplay, it’s competition tech.

And it’s not just theory. 

Back in 2011, Superlite dominated NASA’s Super Unlimited Nationals. 

Pole positions, qualifying wins, even lap records fell as the SL-C walked away with the championship.

That winning car used the exact same parts you can buy today. 

No special prototypes, no unobtainium one-offs. 

Just shelf parts from the same catalog available to customers.

So yes, it’s exotic. Yes, it’s rare. 

But at the end of the day, it’s still a car. 

Which means in Los Angeles, sometimes it has to suffer traffic just like the rest of us.

One part racecar, one part daily-traffic optical illusion – the Superlite SL-C just proved that the best car show in LA might actually be a red light on the 101.

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