If you guys will remember, awhile back we talked about the Garlic Bread Baron who offered to buy Viper from Chrysler Motor Corp. Well it just happens to be that the infamous Garlic Bread Baron goes by the name of Mr. Devon and he owns a little company called Devon Motorworks. In case you are not familiar with them they are the master minds behind the GTX which is the lovely beauty you see to the left… the car not the woman. Although I must say their taste in both is impeccable. Just look at this beautifully designed car.

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So what is the GTX? Well it’s exactly what it appears to be. A Dodge Viper with a body kit… or not really. That’s like saying a full on Saleen is just another Mustang. Take a look at the video below and see what I mean.

So we’ve established that it looks sexy as hell. So what about power? We’ll all we’ve got to go on is a rumored 650 ponies. Not too shabby considering the base Viper V-10 is pushing out just 510 horse power and 530 ft.lbs torque.

Beneath the skin of the Devon GTX is an 8.4-liter (510 cubic inches) V-10 engine that produces 650 horsepower (484.7 kW) at 6100 rpm. The V-10 engine is mated with a track-proven six-speed manual transmission.

- Devon Motors

Deveon didn’t stop there, the entire body is made from ultra lightweight aircraft grade carbon fiber. So that’s a combo that put the GTX in the books at Laguna Seca. Don’t believe it? Here’s more video proof below.

The GTX isn’t  just a boy racer though. It’s a full on super car as is apparent by it’s price. a whopping $500,000 dollars. Yes you read that right that’s 5 zeros. And for a half million dollars Devon Motors has got to deliver the goods and it appears they do with some trick stuff like fold a away gauge cluster and “sensory touch switchwork” that replaces mundane things like door handles and knobs. I’m not exactly sure what “sensory touch stichworks is”  but I’ll bet it translates roughly as “expensive” in English.

The Devon GTX is – on one hand – a race-inspired performance car, offering a 650-horsepower engine and a complimentary transmission and induction/exhaust system that will make it the most powerful naturally aspirated production powertrain system on the market today. On the other hand, the vehicle’s muscular shape represents a new expression of modern industrial design, blending both classic and futuristic cues to warn of the awesome power that exists within its shape.

- Devon Motors

It may be expensive but it appears you get a lot of techy gadgety stuff for that half million price tag and seeing as how Devon Motors is only building 36 GTX’s per year they shouldn’t have any problems finding some ex-hedge fund managers to buy them.

So it may be just another toy for the rich, but I’ll guarantee that little kids all over the U.S. will be hanging posters of what promises to be the next American super car. Not a bad first try from the upstart underdog, but if I could offer a few words of advice, the next Devon Mortors car needs to be an all Devon Motors car not a re-skinned something else. Source the motor that cool, but build the car yourself.

With that I’ll leave you with a bit more car porn courtsey of Devon Motors.

This week on Burnout Radio, we start with a new format which hopefully over the next few weeks will be hammered into something glorious, but knowing us, probably not. Obama states that he wants nothing to do with GM. GM files bankruptcy, and they managed to sell both Hummer and Saturn. We found some nifty spy photos of the new Ford Fiesta sedan. Devon motors releases a trickle of info about the new GTX super car and let’s not forget the Scorpion and the Bewerp. We also found out that the U.S. Airforce tried to top the National Guard for the “who has the cooler car award” with the Mustang X1 and the Challenger Vapor. Speaking of custom cars, we also try and figure out if American Muscle can be green. Then we ask the question, “What have we come to as a society when thieves don’t have the common curtosy to at least put your car on blocks when they steal your wheels?”