I remember seeing a brand new one in New Jersey at a Ferrari dealership behind ropes. I was just a little kid.

Now we have the venom out of Houston TX

It really wasn't though. They had horrible build quality, squeaked and rattled like an old Ford Escort and had reliability issues abound. But they looked and sounded cool and had a good amount of HP, which was the supercar recipe back then.

@@powertothesheeple5422 don’t forget 90% of the population could not fit in it

Midnight club :)))

incredible considering well under 100 total were ever built.

@@04dram04 right?

Where was this? Just curious

@@Minnevan Baton Rouge Louisiana. BREC Skatepark

Lucky!! 😧 knew this one guy who was losing his mind when he saw a Modena, and I was like, dude, you don't know what greatness is...

@Carl Gunderson really? A car that made less than 600 hp. Has a mclaren f1 rivaling top speed. Acceleration that's on par with most hypercars of today. And that's not even the twin turbo....so explain why its not a hypercar.

no such thing as a hypercar 😂 lol

@@khaosking2937 no such things as "hypercars" bro lol also no such thing as a megacar or ultracar 😂

@Carl Gunderson a supercar is a supercar bro, there are no such things as hypercars, u sound totally re tarded

@@Big_Black_Dick but supercar is a proper term? Ok

I find the car tricky to get right in Forza, but maybe that's a combination of the game's physics and my driving style, and not the 1000HP, unrestricted NASCAR block in the back that provides near endless acceleration. I can't seem to get it to turn in like a race car, even though it has every possible upgrade to make it work.

No midnight club has this car

Gran Turismo 4 had it in its roster years before Forza Motorsport... But Saleen it's not the only American car manufacturer that became legend thanks to videogames. Think of Panoz and its Esperante GT1 , gorgeous looking car and a very good performer too in endurance races.

@@halofreak1990 lower the ride height at the front and change the toe in and camber on the front slightly , might give you a bit less understeer. But you are fighting a very long car.

Let's give credit to the OG who included this car TDU

I would love to see that stunt but I doubt any S7 owners are ever gonna be willing to risk that

I've heard this numerous times about pretty much every supercar and F1 car.

People always forget that you also need tractive force to maintain that speed. So you need to generate more than the car's weight

The Salerno s7 is such a beautiful car my first time seeing one was in fast furious 2 it’s been one of my dream cars since everything about it was thought out it’s just a masterpiece

Like the Gumpert Apollo,they say...

@UCqzKw5znkTSpIgMbX3J6eqw well if that makes you click off the video then you really need some better hobbies cause that in it self in pathetic. And the fact that it made you click off kind of shows what kind of person you are. Extremely boring and need to get a life. Not everything has to be perfect. Seriously find a different platform for this strange behaviour. You’d fit right in on twitter.

I built a few of these 427 engines while working for a engine builder in California, he was an amazing machinist.

@@takeastandorbeenslavedby-left hey not critiquing honestly sounds pretty cool tbf. But what does this have to do with my comment. Thanks for sharing tho bet you had a lot fun working on those Beasts

@@takeastandorbeenslavedby-left who tf asked😐

Yeah man, the stories and information are perfect, guy has a good delivery too!

got 550 ps out of 7Litres and a lot of false claims how fast it is great car indeed

When you steal the design from someone else and make a worse version of it, calling it a work of art shows your quality level and expressing it i public is bad, when you should do it in the toilet. You must have been very young at that time, if you liked the S7 and didn't know about the F1 it stole and being a cheap copycat of.

Maybe because in reality they were never a legend to begin with. In reality theres quite many cool looking supercars from 80's, 90's and early 2000's that look cool on poster but in reality are not a good cars. Theres too many people who look some dry numbers on paper and think that if one car has 500HP and other has 600HP then the latter is automatically a better car. But in reality thats not the case. There is a reason why nobody gave a shit about Saleen, why nobody gave a shit about so called Venom GT or Ultimate Aero SSC. The reason is simple - those people with enough money to actually buy them have test driven them and found out that they are just shitty cars with big numbers on paper.

I wouldn't say that. It just sounds like you had a tuner company full of gearheads try to break into the big leagues but they didn't leverage it well enough into marketing and sales

Given the apparent build quality it could well be the other way around

@@huzcer well that's every sports car

Marketing is a huge thing when trying to capture the market of rich people (which are the core target of bespoke supercars). This is why companies like Aston Martin and Ferrari keep boasting about their racing heritage in order to remind people. I think the biggest problem is that only car guys seem to even know what Saleen is these days.

The one I was in, the doors didn't line-up and there were witness marks where they were hitting the body in the wrong spots, the wrap on the headers was poorly applied and was fraying everywhere etc., so for the price point....welllllll......

@@revolutionday1 well I’ll take that at face value but it may have had to do with money and manpower? I believe Saleen built the 05 Ford GTs for Ford and I’ve never seen a bad review of that cars build quality 🤷‍♂️

It was VERY expensive in comparison to other super cars. This thing was 500k in the mid 2000's. Twenty years later the Ford GT is selling for the same price as an S7.

Well the making of a Picasso is a little bit more interesting then your 3 year olds first fingerpainting………they were expensive sportcars around the same time but that’s were every comparison ends

@@Mark-vn7et except for your painting analogy is asinine. Both cars were revolutionary, the F1 was the first car to use a fully carbon fiber chassis while the S7 was the first one to be designed entirely in CAD. Also, the S7 won multiple, MULTIPLE races and series’ during its production run beating other super cars with better technology and resources. That’s the art equivalent of my first finger painting being more valuable than Picasso, Rembrandt and DaVinci and beating them in multiple competitions. A better art analogy would of been Picasso vs Basquiat. One had backing from major influential institutions, while the other was know to a handful of people in the industry and had to earn it the hard way.

@@VinceroAlpha bragging about entirely being made in CAD doesn’t make it special. It makes it cost efficient. Almost every car manufacturer used CAD long before that period, but they also realized that something on a computer screen doesn’t always work in real life. A great example of this IS the saleen, it might look great on a computer screen but almost no grown person could fit in it in real life. If the didn’t design it all in CAD they would have found that out really quickly in the early stages of development. What I am saying is that there is a reason why 3 channels made an in-depth video about the F1 and not about the saleen. It’s just not that special in those parts of the automotive world. One Is a car made to perfection and the other one is a tuned up engine with a big bodykit

@@Mark-vn7et it’s the same type of “bragging” that the F1 was bragging about being made from carbon fiber when other manufacturers have been doing for years before F1. But the F1 pushed the development of Carbon Fiber in road cars by a giant leap. Which is the same thing for the S7 and CAD. CAD wasn’t as extensively used as it was before the S7. It moved the technology forward the same way Mclaren did with carbon fiber. You’re also ignoring other variables for the F1 being more well known. It was and is exotic in every sense of the term. Development, materials, passenger configuration, drivetrain and heritage of the company that built it. But upstarts don’t have the same capabilities as established brands. They also won’t get the same level of notoriety as established brands unless they go crazy with their cars. (Pagani and Koenigsegg are great examples of this) Saleen is a company focused more on function rather than design and why you don’t hear about other brands without the flash or pedigree (Panoz, Noble and Weissman). Keep in mind that Saleen was a specialty tuner first and a car manufacturer second which makes the S7 wins all the more impressive seeing as how it was their first car. Finally it wasn’t long before the F1’s reign came to an end. Mercedes’ CLKGTR, Porsche’s GT1 came later TROUNCED the F1, then the Maserati MC12 came and beat those cars. I should also mention that the MC12 is literally built on chassis of another car that never raced! Perfection is the end all be all and meaning no car would ever beat it, the metrics for are usually in terms of build quality and performance. But in actuality, it was surpassed in just a few short years by the competition. The S7 may seem like a car with a “body kit” compared to the F1, but if that’s the S7’s competition and it’s able to compete with it as well as other competitors, then it maybe time to reevaluate the concept of “perfection.”

an in-depth dive.

Thanks, these videos take me some time but we’ll worth the effort😏

I own three Saleens, and the S7 is my dream car.

Another one was the Joss JT1 that only showed up once in Forza Motorsport 4. An Aussie supercar that was on every leaderboard yet never got off the ground afterwards in real life.

@@iceberg4736 the Joss was a DLC car in Forza Horizon 1

you own nothing in Forza, it's a friggin game. there's literally no comparison. you play a game. grow up.

Unfortunately that is the nature of what sells cars is prestige behind the name. Ferrari does a lot of work behind pushing their image through formula 1 and merchandising. Everything they do is calculated and strategic. Heck even well known brand names sometimes have trouble moving bespoke units like Ford with the GT let alone a single tuning company building their own car.

Way above the production quality and effort that went into the S7, anyway 😉

my childhood favorite super car

It was shit, the build quality is worse than a ford and it was to drive

The bath mobile, eh? Yes, the restroom car.

And The Crew 2 as well, they even have both versions + the Saleen S1 concept

@@MedicalBillz I said "such as" meaning there's others. I just didn't know what those others were.

Very cool car. Would like to see someone cover the Ultima GTR and Factory Five GTM cars also. The Factory Five Daytona coupe is beautiful too...

I thought of this car while watching this video too. Another sad automotive story.

Unlike Saleen though, Genesis actually got their foot in the door.

Bet!

I was thinking of this when I was watching this video. I figured that may have contributed to its downfall too.

Tall fat guys don’t race cars or horses

The claim wasn't that it was the first to use CAD. The claim was that it was "The first production car to be completely developed on the computer without a full-sized model ever being made."

Lmao u just repeated what rob spaghetti said in his video about the rental part

@@SeahawkSTRIKE That's why I said VinWiki did a story on this.

He’s genuinely a really good dude!

That's not surprising. Unless you have an in-house deal with Ford (or any company for that matter), the only way you're gonna get discount pricing for your vehicles is buying in bulk, and for custom tuned cars, the numbers just don't make sense to buy in bulk. This is true for many tuning houses, which is why they either need to have high volume money makers (usually by selling individual parts kits), or they get an in-house deal (which companies like Roush and Callaway had). Saleen, aside from providing the paint jobs for the Ford GT, didn't have that with their Mustangs, and once Shelby reconnected with Ford, it was pretty much the end of Saleen.