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Noble Automotive Ltd, more commonly known simply as Noble, is an English sports car manufacturer based in Leicester. Noble Automotive Ltd. was established in 1999 by Lee Noble in Leeds, West Yorkshire, for producing high-speed sports cars with a rear mid-engine, rear-wheel drive layout. Lee Noble was the chief designer and part owner of Noble.
The car was driven two times on the British motoring show Top Gear. First in Series 14, Episode 5 by Jeremy Clarkson, who held a positive reception to the car. The car later set a time of 1:17.7 on the Top Gear test track, being driven by the show's racing driver the Stig, beating the Pagani Zonda F Roadster and the Bugatti Veyron.
The Noble M400 features a transverse rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout. The power plant is a 2,968 cc (3.0 L; 181.1 cu in) DOHC Ford Duratec V6 engine with 4 valves per cylinder, as used in the Ford Mondeo ST220. With this engine as a base, Noble fits high-lift camshafts, revised fuel injection, and Garrett AiResearch T28 twin ...
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Like all the Noble M models, the M15 has a steel spaceframe and roll cage covered with graphite-reinforced plastic body panelling, ventilated disc brakes front and rear, but unlike the previous models is designed to be more of a grand tourer/everyday sports car (an example of which would be the now-defunct Honda NSX) rather than an all-out ...
Lee Antony Noble (born January 1958) [1] is a British entrepreneur, car designer and engineer. He is the founder of the sports car companies Noble Automotive Ltd in 1999 and Fenix Automotive in 2009. [2] He is also the designer of some low-volume sports cars, including the Ultima Mk1, Ultima Mk2, Ultima Mk3, Midtec Spyder and Ascari FGT.
The appearance of the car at the 1959 New York International Automobile Show drew particularly positive reports and it was stated that 1450 Nobels had been sold, [31] with the car making “a million dollars for Britain”. [32] Despite such extravagant claims, there is no record to indicate that any cars were ever exported to the USA.
Salica Cars planned to build variants based on the Noble M12 but they appear to have remained a project. Like the Noble M10 , the Noble M12 is a two-door, two-seat model, originally planned both as a coupé and as a convertible but the production cars were only produced in the coupé bodystyle.