Superlite Cars

07/08/2025

One of the distinguishing characteristics of the Superlite SL-C is the wide variety of possible drivetrains. Not limited to one engine type, SL-C owners have used engines from 4-cylinder VW diesels for a coast-to-coast economy run, to Ferrari V12 engines, with pretty much everything in between, even electric motors! That flexibility in engine selection may have been what led David Mazzei to select the SL-C to showcase his screaming, turbocharged 5-rotor engine, which is featured in the Drive article below.

YouTubers love to compare their homemade exhaust's sound to a V10 F1 engine, but they've got nothing on the Mazzei Formula Five.

04/25/2024

Gravity is furious about this one weird trick.

02/16/2024

Bugs are protein!

The Superlite LeMans. When you are hungry for the track!

01/19/2024

Fast Company.

12/22/2023

When you're really in a hurry to get home for Christmas.

The Superlite Cars SL-C.

10/28/2023

We don't often post auctions of a Superlite, but here is an interesting one coming up in Lakeland, FL soon.

Like the cars, these go fast at auctions, too!

Mileage non actual on title. Branded Kit Car. Kit manufactured by Race Car Replicas. Built on Siesta Key by Jerry Jackson between December 2013 and May...

09/21/2023

Slippery when wet.

The Superlite Cars SL-C.

07/27/2023

Superlite Cars will never build a boring car.

Because no one at Superlite could bear to drive a boring car.

If you have the same aversion to boring cars, maybe you should check out the cars at http://superlitecars.com and then give us a call.

We can help!

06/14/2023

Ready, set, Track!

Everyone talks about a car that can be a track weapon, and be driven to the track. That's what a Superlite Cars SL-C can be.

It's really a thinly-disguised race car with a license plate.

Sure, it has amenities like heat and A/C, but that doesn't blunt the razor-sharp handling, or lessen the massive g-forces it can generate.

When you are ready to dominate on track, and enjoy the drive to the track in the same car, the SL-C is the car to choose.

That's when you can truly say "Ready, set, track"!

05/29/2023

Number Won.

It's been a while, but there was once a small manufacturer of high-quality component cars that looked very racy. Someone suggested that the primary car they built, the SL-C, looked fast, but didn't have a racing history. So was it really fast, or just a pretender?

So a small team was assembled, a car was built in record time, and it went racing in NASA in their fastest class, Super Unlimited.

Early results were impressive, when it accidentally broke the lap record at Summit Point in it's first outing. There were some problems along the way, including a few blown engines.

But it ended up setting lap records at every track it laid a tire on, and won every race it finished.

Which was amazing, for a new car, with a rookie team, in a very competitive series.

At the end of the race season, the Superlite Cars SL-C put it all on the line and traveled to the Mid Ohio Sportscar Course where the NASA National Championships were held. There, it was fast every session, winning both qualifying races.

But it was spitting rain when the championship race was held, and the car had never actually been raced in the wet. And it was a mid-engined car with a big honkin' V8, so there was a tendency to wiggle the rear end even in the dry.

Just before the race, the slick tires were removed, and rain tires fitted, and the team watched as the cars headed out on a track that coursed with rivulets of water.

The SL-C led the field (because it had won both qualifying races) and the race started. Shortly thereafter the SL-C spun in the wet. Luckily, by then it had gathered enough of a lead that it made no difference, and it resumed racing. By the time the race ended, it had lapped every car in the session except the top 3, and it had won the NASA Super Unlimited National Championship.

Which, for most people, decisively settled the issue of whether or not the car was actually fast, or just looked that way.