Radical RXC
The RXC is Radical's closed-cockpit flagship: a Le Mans-prototype silhouette for track days and club racing, from V6 turbo to V8 spec, delivering genuine LMP-style downforce with the company's trademark ownership economics.
History
Radical answered a decade of customer requests in 2013 with its first coupé: the RXC, a closed two-seater whose styling deliberately quoted Le Mans prototypes, built on a steel spaceframe with full ground-effect aero producing 900+ kg of downforce. Early cars ran Ford-based 3.7 V6 and RPE V8 options before the definitive RXC Turbo (Ford EcoBoost 3.5 twin-turbo, 500–600 hp by spec) settled the range, with track-day, race and even a small road-registered run offered.
The model's competition life centred on Radical's own ecosystem and open GT/prototype club classes: RXC Turbo 500s ran in Britcar, Dutch Supercar Challenge's prototype divisions and track-record programmes — including headline-grabbing Nürburgring Nordschleife laps that put the coupé among the fastest track-day-legal machinery of its era.
On the used market the RXC occupies a singular niche: prototype looks and downforce without prototype running costs, priced between big GT4 money and used LMP3. Factory support continues (Radical's dealer network services the fleet), and the choice between V6/V8 NA cars and the Turbo defines both character and budget — the Turbo's pace against the earlier cars' simplicity.
Palmarès
Class wins and podiums in Britcar and European club prototype/GT divisions through the 2010s; Dutch Supercar Challenge prototype-class success; Radical's own works-supported Nordschleife programme set sub-7-minute lap benchmarks for the RXC Turbo among track-day-eligible cars — the model's headline sporting credential.
What to check before you buy
Specification first: RXC V6, RPE V8 and Turbo (500/600) differ fundamentally in engine support and value — EcoBoost-based Turbos lean on Ford-derived parts with Radical calibration, while RPE V8 cars follow the SR-family rebuild schedule. Check chassis crash history through Radical's records, ground-effect floor and splitter condition, gearbox (paddle-shift) service state and which aero specification the car carries. Road-registered examples command novelty premiums but verify the registration's legitimacy for your market. Buy through or with inspection by a Radical dealer — the network knows every chassis.
Did you know
- The RXC was Radical's first closed car in nearly two decades of open-cockpit production — customer demand for prototype looks finally outvoted the purists.
- Its downforce figures exceed a classic Group C car's at equivalent speeds — on a machine sold with a track-day usage profile.
- A handful of RXCs were road-registered in the UK — arguably the closest thing to a street-legal LMP silhouette ever sold from a factory catalogue.
In the marketplace now
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