£1.2m, R35 GT-R-Powered Praga Bohema Goes Into Production

If you’re a filthy rich petrolhead with a particular fancy for incredible niche hypercars, today is a very fine day for you indeed. Praga, the Czech manufacturer which has been around since 1907 and now almost exclusively builds race cars has just put its Bohema into production.

It’s the first time the firm has had a crack at making a purpose-built road-legal hypercar, following on from over a decade of producing the R4 and R1 race cars and a brief stint of homologating the latter for road use with the R1R.

Just a glance at the Bohema will tell you this is a pretty serious machine, and it has the figures to back that up. Using a Nissan VR38DETT engine, you know, the one from the R35 GT-R, there’s 700bhp on-tap from the 3.8-litre twin-turbo V6. Granted, it doesn’t borrow the rest of the GT-R drivetrain, delivering all that grunt exclusively to the rear wheels through a six-speed sequential gearbox.

That alone sounds like the right mix for a lairy recipe. Especially when you consider that’s produced within a chassis weighing ‘below’ 1,000kg all-in. Crikey.

Praga hasn’t said how long each car will take to build but, considering all are made by hand and that a timeframe of “the first half of 2024” for delivery to the customer of the first suggests perhaps a while. Unsurprisingly with all that in mind, the Czech firm has said it’ll be produced “in very low numbers over the next four years”.

Oh, and each will cost from €1.36m (approx. £1.2 million), so not only it is exclusive, it’s rather expensive.

Tomas Kasparek, Praga’s owner, said; “This is an important milestone for Praga in our long 117-year history. We’re especially proud to be commencing production only one year after revealing the Bohema prototype car. We are monitoring every stage of the build process very closely to make sure that the Bohema production car matches, and even exceeds our customers’ expectations.”