Not the affordable supercar slayer many were expecting, but who's going to turn down a 659hp manual V8?
in the wings but for decades its sole model has been the skeletal Seven, and while that car's original creator is now also in the big, heavy electric car business, it’ll forever be known as the lightweight pioneer. And just look at Morgan. TheNoble, however, has always been a bit of an outlier. Lee Noble’s first production car, the M10, was a two-seater convertible that sold in the single digits, and while the follow-upcarried over the Ford Mondeo-sourced 2.
So no, the jump between the M12 and M600 isn’t quite as drastic as it first seems, although the latter was considerably faster and more complex than anything Noble had built before. The company finally ditched the old Mondeo V6 for a 4.4-litre Yamaha V8 with up to 659hp on tap . Transmitting power to the rear wheels was a six-speed manual gearbox, while all four corners featured double wishbones with coilovers.
While it wasn’t the affordable performance car many were hoping for, its do-it-yourself gearbox, primitive traction control and complete lack of ABS made the M600 one of the last great analogue supercars. That said, we found it surprisingly approachable when, with Sutters writing: “It's actually a well-mannered, albeit very rapid machine that will, in the end, do everything it can to help you out - even if your inner maniac gets carried away every once in a while.
Hard to imagine a featherweight, 659hp V8 supercar that can hit 60mph in just three seconds as ‘well-mannered’, but who am I to question the mighty Sutcliffe? Anyway, Noble only built around 30 of them worldwide, and only a fraction of those will be carbon-bodied like the car we have here. It’s offered at £239,900, or about the same price as the glass fibre cars were going for a decade ago.
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