I'll add a little to this. The S7 is a great looking car and I have never seen another car draw the same attention. My friend has 2, one an early NA version and a later one that is a twin turbo.
When he got the NA one, the paint was so thin that the carbon fiber was showing through and it immediately had to be sent back to Saleen to be repainted.
He then dyno'd his 580HP S7 and it put down the same horsepower number at the rear wheels as the stock 450hp rated Gen 2 Vipers that we were dyno'ing. He had paid the $30K upgrade from the standard 550HP rating to get the 580HP motor. It had to be sent back to Saleen to find the missing horsepower. I don't know if they ever did.
We then took it on a 3 day run. Accidentally spilled a little gas filling it up and the black paint around the filler nozzle washed off.
We then entered our cars in a car show and he put it into reverse to back up a hill we were staging on and popped the clutch a little and tore the transmission up. We had to call a flatbed truck to come pick it up and haul it back to Saleen.
We never weighed it, but I am also skeptical about the claimed 2750lb weight. Its a pretty big car with a pretty heavy looking engine in it.
It's like being married to a supermodel. Looks great sitting there, but darn hard to live with! I'd still love to have one though.
And here I thought only Ferrari's & Lamborghini's were temperamental. For upwards of $300,000 K a car that falls apart like that is simply unacceptable.
Could you imagine what that kind of cash in an SL-C would result!?