A rare Marcos GTC. By rare we mean the company only lasted long enough to build four of them.
The British car industry has existed only in name for about the last three decades. The only glimmer of hope in that time has been a noble effort, ironically, by a chap called Lee Noble, who showed the world that Brits could still build well-sorted cars, even if they did look and feel a bit like an upturned jacuzzi.
You’d think that sort of history would convince would be investors and engineers to burn their money elsewhere, but it’s a bit of a running joke in the UK these days as to who’s going to have a go at building the next great British supercar. A wonderful website called sniffpetrol.com developed a standardised press release for such companies, which you’ll find after the jump. This is laugh-out-loud material.
Tags: british, car, great, industry, next, press, release, rubbish, supercar
I lolled.
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What ever happened to Ariel? They made that mad Atom thing.
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Ciro Reply:
February 14th, 2010 at 11:50 pm
@Graeme, Ariel is still going strong, in fact you can get a few different versions of the Atom. The issue is the car is technically a ‘quardicycle’, which is provided for under UK law but not under SA law, so they can’t be driven here on public roads. Which is sad.
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carkid Reply:
February 14th, 2010 at 11:52 pm
@Ciro, I saw one at investment cars in cape town?
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I saw it 2, asked the guy, he says this guy in paarl owns it. Car mag used it in a shoot at killarney.
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Top laugh, british supercars in general
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