This is the Jannarelly Design-1, a minimalist sports car with throwback looks and modern mechanical bits, not unlike the Donkervoort D8 GTO and the Lucra LC470.

The shape, penned by Lykan HyperSport designer (and Caterham driver) Anthony Jannarelly, is an interesting hodgepodge of classic elements, a form created to evoke the sports cars of the 1950s and '60s — Testa Rossas and Cobras and such. Fibreglass and carbon fibre body panels surround a tube-frame aluminium structure, and for the track-day tinkerers, the suspension is fully adjustable.

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Providing the power is a 3.5-litre V6 engine — probably from Toyota or Nissan — producing 304 horsepower and 274 pound-feet of torque. The naturally aspirated engine drives the rear wheels through a traditional six-speed manual transmission. Jannarelly expects to keep the curb weight below 1,600lbs, so performance should be invigorating at the very least; the company claims the car will make the sprint from zero to 60mph in less than four seconds, but with that cut-down windscreen will make it feel a whole lot faster.

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Jannarelly expects to introduce the car this summer, priced at a relatively modest $55,000, a price point that that puts the handbuilt roadster fender-to-fender with such mass-market sporting machines as the Porsche Boxster, the Chevrolet Corvette Stingray and the Alfa Romeo 4C.

Which would you choose?