Exciting new arrival from Lithuania, no less and what’s more the makers claim that it is the Baltic State’s first original kitcar design.

Thanks to totalkitcar’s friend in Lithuania Arunas for the tip off

Called the RR01 from Rhino Racing the very styling sportscar with a lightweight GRP body and gullwing doors and is underpinned by an aluminium alloy monocoque fabricated from 6061 T6 and features a built-in rollover-bar (from 25 CrMo4.

Power comes from a reconditioned Audi R8-spec 5.2-litre V10 engine complete with Audi R8 (which means at least 550bhp is on the cards!) intake manifold. The kit contents are of very high standard with some of the leading names of the automotive aftermarket contributing components (Tillet, Sachs, MME, AP Racing, Sabelt, it’s a veritable who’s who!).

The company also says that the transaxle is a six-speed sequential unit but at the time of writing hadn’t announced its origin.

Rhino Racing evolved from a company called Auto Hobis, which acted as Pilgrim Cars Baltic agent and built several Sumos – said to be of very high standard – before former sailors, Vejas Pajarskaw (design & engineering) Julius Garnelis (project manager), Simonas Baciulis (project co-ordinator) and Matas Stankevicius (marketing) decided to produce their own kitcar model – the result is the very exciting RR01. Kit pricing starts at €35,000.

More information is available from the Kaunus-based company via www.rhinoracing.eu ENDS.