LOS ANGELES 2013 - Youabian Puma is a big cat - AllCarIndex

LOS ANGELES 2013 - Youabian Puma is a big cat

Nov 22, 2013

Each season the largest international motor shows become venues where the most significant world premieres take place. Many well-known manufacturers display their production cars and future visions. Anyhow, these automotive events are places where some unknown small outfits showcase their prototype cars in the farthest corners of the exposition halls, as well.

Among them this year at the Los Angeles Motor Show is the Youabian. This very small California-based company is displaying its first model – the Puma. A big large cat from Beverly Hills, this vehicle is designed and built for those wealthy clients who, as they claim, are “bored of owning exotic sports cars like Ferrari and Lamborghini”. Indeed, the Puma is a unique example among others.

It is a cross between a classic convertible and a classic off-roader. Adding both together and multiplying by two, you get this result. The Puma is 6.1 meters long, 2.36 meters wide and 1.82 meters high. Its wheelbase is a tremendous 4.1 meters! However, being equipped with huge 1.1m tall, 0.5m wide tires, the Puma has a ground clearance of just 22 cm.

Youabian’s car features an electronically-controlled computer-monitored convertible hardtop and it is powered by a 7-liter 505hp engine. Claimed acceleration time from 0-100 km/h is just 5.9 seconds. It’s not that implausible like 5000hp for the Devel Sixteen, but still..  

Finally, the company will not provide potential customers an opportunity to have a private viewing and test drive of the Puma, unless they make a $250 deposit and further documentation proving financial qualifications. After that, those lucky few financially-eligible clients will need to wait for at least 12-18 months for their cat to be unleashed. The price tag, however, is under request, of course.

PHOTOS: Youabian