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The project was announced back in February 2020, when it was estimated it would be completed in about 18 months; that would mean we’ll get our first glimpse at the fully restored Bulldog sometime this fall. Soon after that, we’re to expect the car to make a run for the same record it chased 40 years ago.
The Bulldog was born in 1979 as a one-off project meant to take the British carmaker to new heights of success. To do that, something extraordinary was needed, and it was agreed that something should be, how else, speed.
The idea was to have the Bulldog top at 237 mph (381 kph), which should have made it the fastest production car in the world. It fell short of achieving that, reaching just 191 mph (307 kph) during testing in 1981, and then the plug on the project was pulled.
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