- Canadian twins Nikita and Iliya Bridan founded Oilstainlab in 2019, rising to fame via their Half11 hot rod
- Now the firm wants to build 25 examples of its new HF-11 supercar, at US$2.35 million each
- The plans include a 650-hp 4.5-liter flat-six or 850-hp electric motor that owners can swap between
It feels like every month, a new restomod take on the classic Porsche 911 drops from some boutique outfit aiming to garnish some of the big bucks Singer keeps siphoning out of the pockets of well-moneyed car enthusiasts. How do you make your mark in a crowded space like that? Well, with a refined-yet-outrageous-looking 850-horsepower fever dream of a car that’s not even anything like a 911 at all. Meet the HF-11 by Oilstainlab, the brainchild of twins Nikita and Iliya Bridan.
The pair – born in Ukraine but raised from age three in Canada – have separately worked in a dozen major automakers’ design studios, from Toyota to Cadillac and everything in between. In 2019, they broke out to together establish Oilstainlab, and made a name for themselves with the one-off Half11, which looked something like a ’60s Le Mans racer that’d been driven so fast it’d started to shed the back half of its bodywork.
Now the Bridan brothers want to turn the warm reception they’d received from enthusiasts into a 25-unit run of supercars, loosely vintage 911 inspired in terms of styling but based around a carbon-fibre chassis built by Markham, Ontario’s Multimatic (the firm assembles the newest-gen Ford GT, among other feats of engineering).
There’s not yet a working prototype of its new HF-11 project, but there should be by early 2025, Oilstainlab says, after it assembles the team of “maniac” craftspeople it wants to build it. The goal is for the rear-wheel-drive mid-engine supercar to come in under 2,000 lbs (907 kg); and to boast a (not-Porsche-based) 650-hp 4.5-liter flat-six or 850-hp electric motor.
They’re not asking customers to choose, though. One idea is to make the powerplants swappable, so owners can go EV or gas on a whim. (It’s less of a powertrain swap and more trading out the entire subframe, Nikita Bridan told Car and Driver.)
The ballpark price tag is US$2.35 million, or a much more reasonable US$1.85 million if the customer decides to forego the EV-powerplant option. There will be race and street versions, says Oilstainlab, with one distinction between the two seeing the former ride on 18-inch wheels, and the latter a slightly wilder 19- or 20-inch set of hoops.
It’s one heckuva vision, and we eagerly anticipate the prototype’s debut next spring. With the specs and proposals laid out so far and the incredible renders you see here, we’d argue these two über-ambitious Canadians and their crazy HF-11 have already left quite a mark on the enthusiast space—maybe even an Oilstain.
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