Home grown street racer is half the price of a Koenigsegg

British/Iranian entrepreneur and car manufacturer Arash Farboud - the man who famously bought a Bugatti Veyron over the phone while going through a McDonalds drive-thru - revealed his latest supercar, the AF-10 as a concept car at the 2007 British Motor Show. From mid-2009, punters with a spare £172,000 knocking about will be able to claim one as it goes into production. That’s about a third of the price of the Enzo Ferrari, the car from which it borrows much of its aesthetic design.

The AF-10, hand-made in Cambridge, will house a thirsty seven litre V8 (taken from a Corvette Z06) which will give 530bhp, a top speed