After a rigorous and secretive seven-year development and testing program, Praga has presented the first Bohema production supercar and handover the first customer car by Romain Grosjean on 6th December in The Netherlands. Since showing the pre-production prototype just two years ago, Praga’s engineering and design teams have fine-tuned the Bohema to meet the team’s ambitious targets. With today’s supercars weighing anything up to 2,000 kg / 4,400 lbs, Praga’s achievement to keep the car comfortable, yet challenging, at 50 percent of that weight is a testament to the skill of the motor racing addicts and competitors that populate the 117-year-old Czech manufacturing organization.
The Bohema’s uncomplicated design approach features a full carbon body and monocoque, great visibility, an aerodynamic package signed-off (virtually unaltered) in a Formula 1 team’s wind tunnel, and a focus on lightweight engineering. The result? GT3 race car matching lap times on road tyres with genuine ability to drive to and from the track, and enough storage and road compliance to make an overnight hotel stay absolutely achievable.
Jan Martinek, Engineering Director, Praga Cars: “Making something complicated is easy; delivering something supposedly simple is difficult, and we set out to provide a special group of owners with what’s basically a race driver’s supercar: lightweight, all carbon, ultimate aero and high power. You can use it on road and track, on the same day, every day. We wanted it to be the lightest supercar in the world, the fastest on track, and for it to be beautiful: no-one else makes a car like this.”
With an encyclopedic knowledge of Praga’s history, Martinek also explained, “Even in the early days of automotive design and manufacturing, Praga was known for its innovations in using lightweight engineering and aerodynamics: look at our Super Piccolo road racer from 1934. These core values are presented in the 2025 Praga Bohema, and it could be argued the Bohema is exactly the car that Praga would have developed today if car production hadn’t been halted 80 years ago.”
Specification Targets:
- Bespoke Praga Litchfield 3.8-litre six-cylinder twin-turbo engine producing 700 bhp
- Vehicle weight 1,000 kg / 2,300 lbs.
- Top speed of 317 km/h / 197 mph
- Seamless transition between road and track, with adjustable suspension and ride height, communicative handling, powerful braking, 2G cornering, and effortless overtaking potential
- Each Bohema is hand-built with bare carbon and bespoke paint finishes available, including gold leaf detailing
- First customer car delivered to client in Netherlands, 6th December 2024
- Next Bohema deliveries are scheduled for European and US owners in spring 2025
- Production limited to sub-20 cars per year (spec-dependent) over the next four years
- New supercar marks Praga’s return to road car production after 77 years
Overview
The road-legal, race-bred, pure-combustion Praga Bohema is a truly unique car for 2025. Engineered for exhilarating power delivery and grin-inducing agility on track, the Bohema’s braking performance has been recognized as its secret weapon, with 380 mm carbon ceramic discs and six-piston calipers combined with the lightweight and aero package.
The Praga design and engineering teams – led by Juraj Mitro and Jan Martinek respectively – have developed the Bohema to appeal to all car collectors, but to be only truly exploitable by those who are both brave and experienced behind the wheel. Unsurprising given that racer Romain Grosjean was influential in the car’s origin and advised throughout its development.
The first Praga Bohema has been delivered with a low production run planned for 2025 to ensure superb build quality and the ability to also support owners around the world for servicing and aftersales, track support, and customer handovers. Owners will receive a totally personalized service, befitting such a bespoke car. Each of the cars currently scheduled for delivery already features unique colours and trim details, including bare carbon and gold leaf.
Hand-built by Praga’s and hand-painted by one of the world’s best (Czech-based) automotive paint shops, the first customer delivery elicited an understated and clear response: “Magnificent!”.
Mark Harrison, Sales and Marketing Director for Praga Cars, said: “The quality of the first Bohema that Praga has delivered cannot be understated. It is very easy to promise car enthusiasts an enticing new vehicle, but incredibly hard to design, develop and then produce a car that delivers on that promise. Praga has done exactly that with the Bohema: a supercar of superb quality in production and performance – with an earned right to be considered by all collectors.”
The Praga factory will ramp up production to a planned one to two cars per month from 2026 through 2028. Praga targets building fewer than 20 cars per year to ensure quality and rarity, with a focus on just five core regions: EU/UK, USA, South Asia, Middle East, and Japan.
Ivan Krakora, Praga Group CMO, said: “Everyone at Praga is humble and proud of this business that was founded in the late-19th Century. We’re also aware that heritage means nothing unless a product is delivered that resonates with today’s car enthusiasts and collectors. Delivering the first customer car is the ultimate confirmation of Praga’s right to exist as a supercar manufacturer: we are proud that automotive connoisseurs have put their faith in Praga.”
Above content © 2024 Praga reviewed and edited by Rex McAfee
