By Ronan Glon
Monday, Jan 30th, 2012 @ 2:12 pm

Huet Brothers is a company based in Holland that specializes in making watches. In 2007, it decided to try its hand at building a car and launched a retro-styled two-seater roadster called the HB Special.

Five years later, the company is busy developing its second car, which for now has been simply dubbed the HB Coupe. The teaser images released by Huet Brothers show a sleek-looking car that wouldn’t look out of place in the late 1950s.

The only specifications known about the Coupe are that it is expected to sprint from zero to 62 miles per hour in less than six seconds, and have a fuel economy of about 60 miles per gallon in a mixed European cycle.

It is not known what engine will be under the hood, but it is a safe bet that the Triumph TR6-sourced straight-six found in the HB Special will not be part of the package.

To keep the weight as low as possible, the Coupe’s body will be made entirely out of carbon fiber.

According its website, Huet Brothers is planning on building three versions of the Coupe. The first is aimed at what the company calls the “gentleman driver”, and will be a car that can be used as a lively daily driver. The second, tentatively called the Road Racer, will be a more powerful version of the standard Coupe. Lastly, the range-topping model will be a track-oriented car not designed exclusively for daily use.

No word was spoken about when the Coupe will hit the market. The Dutch company said in a statement that it still needs time and money before the first example can roll out of its factory.

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