What’s a Czech supercar doing at the Top Gear test track?

Its maker, Praga, invited Top Gear to come down to a secret location nearby to the Top Gear test track and have a ruddy good poke around the new Bohema supercar.

Since there was a world-famous racetrack-cum-airfield just outside, Praga decided to be a good sport and also let us have a few exploratory laps in its hard-worked prototype.

So that’s a rather valuable new supercar in not-quite-finished condition, and a puddle-strewn airstrip in late October. Excellent. Good job they’ve turned down the power a bit. 

So it’s not running the full 700bhp?

Nope, while Praga finesses the finer details of the Bohema, this prototype’s 3.8-litre Nissan GT-R bi-turbo V6 has been wound back to five-hundred-and-something. That’s still plenty in a car that weighs about a tonne. For the full tech-spec of the Bohema’s construction and powertrain, tap on these blue words. 

Back? Splendid. Safe to say we’re not attempting to verify the 900kg of downforce claim here, or set a new Top Gear test track lap record, which you sense the Bohema might be eminently capable of once it’s finished. This is just an early meet-and-greet with a new name in the supercar fraternity. And a lesson in how to actually climb aboard. 

Does it actually have doors?

‘Doors’ is a grandiose term. This is more like opening a pedal-bin and falling inside. 

The trick is to sit down on the top of the air intakes, swing both feet…