The car was originally made for racing, developed by Engineer Dick Kvetnansky and designed by Juraj Mitra and was completed in 2000.

[2] Powered by a mid-mounted 3.0-litre (2,967 cc) V-6 Ford Mondeo ST220 engine,[3] producing 178 kW at 7,000 rpm, mated to a 6-speed manual transmission with a rear-wheel drive powertrain.

The team of students was led by the teacher-engineer Simon Hauger, their goal was to build "The World's First Hybrid Supercar".

[citation needed] Somewhere between twenty and forty were produced and exported to the United States by K-1 Engineering before production ceased.

The kit was plagued by poor support, lack of assembly instructions and an extremely difficult build process due to ill-conceived design aspects.