Veritas RS III price confirmed +video

August 14, 2009 By Cars UK

The Veritas RS III will cost £295,000 and just 30 will be made

Vermot AG first previewed the Veritas RS III as far back as 2001. But just lately it’s clear it is just about ready to roll, and the Veritas RS III was at Salon Prive this year. And a stunning thing it is. It looks like a Sci-Fi creation of a 1940s race car, and there is nothing else like it – except perhaps the McLaren SLR Stirling Moss.

The Veritas RS II is powered by BMW’s V10 from the M5, but with no ABS and no traction control, it’s going to be a hairy-chested drive. And you’ll probably need a set of goggles to stop every flying creature from being embedded in your eyeballs as the Veritas doesn’t even have a windscreen.

The Veritas isn’t high on creature comforts either, and comes in a 1+1 configuration, with a cover over the passenger side that can be removed to take a brave passenger. Performance should be scintillating, with a 0-60mph time of around 3 seconds and top speed north of 200 mph.

And the price? £295,000. We guessed at over £250k when we did the report on the Salon Prive debut, so it’s in the ball park. It’s a great deal of money, but it’s still less than half the price of the Stirling Moss.

Vermot are only going to build 30 Veritas RS IIIs. But they do have a coupe version in the pipeline and a monster SUV.