BY STEVE SILER
210 mph with no windshield? Reeves, you may have a problem.
Callaway is a name synonymous with wild styling, Corvettes, and, of course, speed. (Well, golf clubs, too, but we digress.) And the newest automobile to wear the famous name of Reeves Callaway, son of golf-club-business founder Ely Callaway, is the 2008 Callaway C16 speedster. It embodies all those things, especially the speed part. Indeed, with its 700-hp supercharged V-8 and a claimed top speed of 210 mph, the C16 speedster may be Callaway’s fastest street car in his three decades of business.
Designed by longtime Callaway architect Paul Deutschman, the C16 speedster is the third in Callaway’s Corvette-based C16 series, along with the C16 coupe and C16 cabrio. Obviously, the speedster is more closely related to the cabrio, only with every body panel modified in some way to speak to style and aerodynamics (as if the other C16s don’t speak to style or aerodynamics). To save you the time, we did a side-by-side photo comparison and didn’t find many dramatic changes from cabrio to speedster, save the fender vents”each of which now sports five grille strakes”and the itty-bitty wind deflectors in place of the wind
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