My all-time favorite Jeremy Clarkson-ism is about TVR. He once said the sports car company “built a car, put it on sale, and then found out how it handled – usually when one of their customers wrote to the factory complaining about how dead he was.”
TVR’s working to come back from the dead, but the legacy of British insanity lives on with companies like BAC and their Mono. And reader stoke gets what they’re all about:
So as I understand it, this is the market positioning of the small British street-legal trackday car makers:
Caterham: go around a track really fast with classic looks
BAC: go around a track really fast with modern style and design
Radical: go around a track as fast as goddamn possible
Caparo: go around a track really fast and possibly catch fire
Ariel: go around a track really fast and hey everybody look at my socks
Smashing, baby!
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