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Mito Man wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 3:33 pm I kept thinking it looks like a Corvette kit car

Looks way better than the Arse Engineering Corvette kit car

Mito Man wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 3:33 pm Did Gordon Murray say a set of custom lights costs over £10 million or am I imagining things again?

Lights are always quoted at insane development and manufacturing costs. Maybe for hard tooled molds that'll produce several million units and meet global homologation. Hope that small LEDs change that for the better... Or the lighting engineers will find some new way to keep up with their cocaine habits

That Ares looks like it has OEM Hella (et al) projecters.

Those will be approved as a separate individual lamp unit with TUV, DVLA, etc, that you can just mount on the chassis for alignment - OE on a Caterfield.

I expect once you put those units in their own sealed enclosure howevber, you then have to get that enclosure approved, to demonstrate what happens when a pedestrian cracks their head on it, etc - something the Hella pods will already have done for them. So just leave 'em exposed and move on.

That's more Robs bag though

Mito Man wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 3:33 pm I kept thinking it looks like a Corvette kit car, just checked that the front lights are from a C7. Can't place the rears though. Did Gordon Murray say a set of custom lights costs over £10 million or am I imagining things again?

Citroen C4 Picasso!

Posted in boatshoes nearly three years ago. Didn't realise the Noble pictures had been released that long ago!

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/top ... 2322&i=200

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new- ... 0-supercar

Closer….

Manuel only option.

Aiming for £150k price tag. Balls. Originally cited as the "little brother to the M600", according to this article, it now appears to be pitched as a (slightly less extreme, slightly cheaper) replacement for the M600.

Let’s see how the final item turns out.

The side looks like a weird mix of Bugatti Chiron and McLaren 12c. Exhaust pipes layout isn't nice. You should still buy one.

I know it's not meant to be a luxury car, and it's not what Noble are about, but I couldn't live with that interior in a 150k car, it looks shocking.

Evo has a few more pics.

Lack of ABS (let alone TC or ESP) is a surprise and may create a barrier for some.

https://www.evo.co.uk/noble/204483/nobl ... -late-2022

Looks pretty good - though no one will buy one.

16vCento wrote: ↑Wed Jan 12, 2022 2:39 pm I know it's not meant to be a luxury car, and it's not what Noble are about, but I couldn't live with that interior in a 150k car, it looks shocking.

I don't think the interior is bad, looks functional.

The interior may be functional, but if this is 150k, it needs to be more special IMO.

It's like they had a challenge to see how much alcantara they could fit into a single car. Kind of like Rolls Royce and Bentley competing with each other to fit 14 cow hides into a single car.

16vCento wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 2:24 pm The interior may be functional, but if this is 150k, it needs to be more special IMO.

All the screens look very aftermarket. And touch screen heater controls can fuck right off

The more I think about the spec…. If I want a low-volume composite bodied tubular-steel space frame chassis car without ABS or any other driving aids…. I could save some money and have 800bhp.

You know they’ll turn that up to 1000 if you want to die faster

Probably still comes in under £150k for that too.

That's a pretty good way to die all things considered.

Enthusiastically delivered review of the M500 (prototype) from previously-of-the-forum Oli. I was made aware of this video +last night by salt-n-sauce ScottA.

Some angles look great. Others, less than great.

Other than the dash display and the seats, the interior looks a bit....well... crap. That steering wheel boss looks like something from the 70's.... maybe the final version with have something a bit nicer. (Tubular steel spaceframe chassis also sounds more than old-school).

Love that it's a manuel, but the clack-clack (or more accurately CLACK-CLACK) of the open gate really started to get on my tats whilst watching this vid Great to hear that it handles, and that the steering is chatty.

Seems to go very well. I'm still somewhat bemused that it has traction control, but no ABS.

And with the price still mooted in the £150-200k range, I won't have to spend much time pondering a potential purchase.

Or a 2nd hand R8 manual for 1/4-1/3 of the price?

mik wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 10:19 pm Probably still comes in under £150k for that too.

It's just an LS in there isn't it? You can get twin turbo kits that are good for 2k bhp for about $20k. Obviously other costs if you want to keep everything inside the block for any length of time

JonMad wrote: ↑Wed Jun 28, 2023 10:28 am Or a 2nd hand R8 manual for 1/4-1/3 of the price?

Ja. I'm a big fan of the V10 manuel R8, but I think the last ones will be around 12yrs old now?