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What is the first image that pops into your head when you hear that a car is named the “Roadyacht”? For us the name evoked mental pictures of portly late 70’s four door Cadillacs, but as it turns out Dutch automaker Savage Rivale’s new GTR “Roadyacht” actually has very little in common with luxury boats, or behemoth GM sedans.
We were tipped off to the forthcoming release of the GTR Roadyacht thanks to Autoblog, where they have a full press release laying out all the details of the new track toy. The GTR Roadyacht is actually a stripped-down two door version of the Savage Rivale Roadyacht GTS, which is actually an LS7 powered four-door convertible that makes somewhere north of 600 horsepower. However, we are only told that the smaller and lighter new Roadyacht GTR gets a 6.2L engine with a turbo that pumps out somewhere near 800 horsepower. The displacement leads us to speculate that the Roadyacht GTR also has an LSX based engine, perhaps an LS3 or even reworked LS9 longblock. It says a lot that these small supercar manufacturers can pick any powerplant in the world, and yet they repeatedly choose the LSX.
As you can tell from the pics, we are only currently getting a look at computer renderings of the Roadyacht GTR, and the car won’t officially be released until April 19th at the Top Marques Supercar Show in Monaco. As if the $185,000 price tag wasn’t enough, Savage Rivale only plans to build 69 of the Roadyacht GTRs to keep the car “exclusive.”
