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A couple of years ago British sportscar maker Lister returned to the fold with a recreation of the Knobbly; a car designed to mark new ownership and to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the company"s first racing car.The 2013 model had a top speed of 181mph and would do 0-60mph in a stonking 4.3 seconds. Today though, there"s a new version that will go even faster.The car pictured above is the Lister Jaguar Knobbly Stirling Moss special edition. A lighter, sleeker replica of the racer that Moss drove at Silverstone in 1958, it will be the only magnesium-bodied car in the world when deliveries begin in the autumn.Priced at 1 million, Lister say that they will only be building ten iterations of the historic machine, and by the end of the big unveiling at the Royal Automobile Club in London this morning, one buyer had already been found.Underneath, the new Knobbly is very similar to its predecessor: a straight-six, 3.8-litre Jaguar D Type engine provides 337bhp, which is enough to propel the car from 0-60mph in under four seconds, with 295lb ft of torque available at 4,250rpm.Working your way up the four-speed gearbox, you"ll hit 100mph from a standing start in a shade under 10 seconds, en route to a top speed of 184mph. Not bad for a car designed nearly 60 years ago."The launch of these Stirling Moss editions represents a truly unique opportunity," says Lister CEO Lawrence Whittaker. "None of the original works" Lister Knobblys survived from the 1950s, so the fortunate few who get to own a Stirling Moss edition will be getting a period-correct continuation works" Lister made using the same techniques as the original."It"s the weight reduction that makes the 2016 car so special. According to Whittaker, the late company founder Brian Lister was "obsessed with saving weight", knowing that such gains would improve the speed and handling of his vehicles.But while cars sold to third parties were constructed using heavier steel and aluminium components, what he didn"t mention was that the works racers utilised a much lighter, 16-gauge steel chassis and a magnesium body.And such was the secrecy behind these details, Sir Stirling Moss himself only found out about them recently.
Date written: 28 Jun 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 4044
A couple of years ago British sportscar maker Lister returned to the fold with a recreation of the Knobbly; a car designed to mark new ownership and to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the company"s first racing car.The 2013 model had a top speed of 181mph and would do 0-60mph in a stonking 4.3 seconds. Today though, there"s a new version that will go even faster.The car pictured above is the Lister Jaguar Knobbly Stirling Moss special edition. A lighter, sleeker replica of the racer that Moss drove at Silverstone in 1958, it will be the only magnesium-bodied car in the world when deliveries begin in the autumn.Priced at 1 million, Lister say that they will only be building ten iterations of the historic machine, and by the end of the big unveiling at the Royal Automobile Club in London this morning, one buyer had already been found.Underneath, the new Knobbly is very similar to its predecessor: a straight-six, 3.8-litre Jaguar D Type engine provides 337bhp, which is enough to propel the car from 0-60mph in under four seconds, with 295lb ft of torque available at 4,250rpm.Working your way up the four-speed gearbox, you"ll hit 100mph from a standing start in a shade under 10 seconds, en route to a top speed of 184mph. Not bad for a car designed nearly 60 years ago."The launch of these Stirling Moss editions represents a truly unique opportunity," says Lister CEO Lawrence Whittaker. "None of the original works" Lister Knobblys survived from the 1950s, so the fortunate few who get to own a Stirling Moss edition will be getting a period-correct continuation works" Lister made using the same techniques as the original."It"s the weight reduction that makes the 2016 car so special. According to Whittaker, the late company founder Brian Lister was "obsessed with saving weight", knowing that such gains would improve the speed and handling of his vehicles.But while cars sold to third parties were constructed using heavier steel and aluminium components, what he didn"t mention was that the works racers utilised a much lighter, 16-gauge steel chassis and a magnesium body.And such was the secrecy behind these details, Sir Stirling Moss himself only found out about them recently.
Date written: 28 Jun 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 4044
