You know that feeling when you’re watching the races (even more so if it’s live), where you wish you could be driving one of those cars. Whilst becoming an F1 driver might be quite a task to achieve and not everyone is really made for it, there is a company who have been (for some time now) making It possible. Or at least as possible as it gets. “Your choice, your dream” as they say on their official site. Well, that would be true if you had a minimum of £300,000 sitting in your pocket for that particular dream. I am going to get you familiar with this not so widely popular but nonetheless – outstanding car – the Spanish Tramontana.

There are not many hand-made vehicles nowadays, so that alone makes it quite unique. The brand was spotted by our beloved Top Gear back in 2009 but officially launched in the UK only last year. High technology with top quality luxury materials for both, exterior and interior, no Tramontana is exactly the same. Just to give you a taste of it, imagine carbon fiber, titanium, gold and the best wood, aerodynamic leather seats, placed with ideal weight distribution in mind. And in that, you can race with the wind at the astonishing 325km/h. And the best part? It is road legal. Yes, that’s very much the spirit of it – bringing the race design and experience to the average driver (ahm…average, average…you know, half-a-million-euro-spare-cash kind of average but still).

Each car is tailored to its new owners’ taste – colour, materials, technical specs etc. The mid-range Tramontana XTR features the V12 engine aimed more at pure track performance. This particular model can reach 62mph in less than 3.3sec. Only 12 cars are produced each year.

All models are impressively light, given the technical specifications – produced with carbon fiber, they all don’t go above the 1350kg mark. The range-topping R model (currently the one available to UK audience) is available with two different engines. A twin-turbocharged 5.5-litre V8 from Mercedes and pumping out up to 710 hp or the naturally-aspirated Audi-sourced 5.2-litre V10 engine with 592 hp. All cars are produced by a small team of Formula 1 engineers based north of Barcelona. An order takes between one and eight months to complete on average. The car is already sold across Europe, US and the Middle East. The design (as you may have already spotted) is a bit of a discussion point and I think very nicely covered by the head of UK development, Shami Karla – “It’s a Marmite car, you’ll either love it or you don’t. When you see it, you’ll be blown away. The cars will go to people who are complete petrolheads. Many of the supercars which are around the £1 million mark aren’t achievable for most people, whereas our cars at this price are. There’s nothing that’s so extreme for this price.”

The aim of the company is to bring the F1 experience and sensation to the regular drivers and in all fairness, design or not, they have achieved that. They are also toying with the idea to have electric models in the not too distant future and models that are fully and only for racing. Let’s wait and see. Ah, and before I leave you, let’s hear it purring.