Another Brit sports car company bites the dust

ryallm · Post by **ryallm** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 12:39 pm

Marcos is no more - very sad. http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default ... ryId=16937

TVR, now Marcos, and Noble effectively dead although no one is admitting it. Lets hope Lotus gets back into decent profit...

Mark

jamie · Post by **jamie** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 1:52 pm

Sad news indeed, The latest Marcos had promise and looked a far better package than the TVR or Noble with a comparatively bullet proof motor and engineering expertise of Prodrive to back them up

Fingers crossed for Lotus, Ariel etc etc

YvoTuk · Post by **YvoTuk** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 2:15 pm

Noble effectively dead? Is that so? Have I missed something

ryallm · Post by **ryallm** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 8:51 pm

YvoTuk wrote:Noble effectively dead? Is that so? Have I missed something

Noble hasn't produced a single car in over a year so has no money coming in, and binned plans to launch the M14 because even they recognised it was an under-developed and poorly styled mess (80K car with a Ford Focus steering wheel anyone?). Sounds pretty corpse-like to me

Brian J · Post by **Brian J** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 8:55 am

Noble maintain that, like the Monty Python parrot, they are "not dead, just resting."

Time will tell - but nothing would induce me to be a customer again.

Andy G · Post by **Andy G** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 10:04 am

heard some chat of aq possible link between Lotus and Aston?

Ariels order book is running at 13-14 months currently - reckon they should be fine.

Atom 3 has just been launched - first uk car will be coming Scotland chaps - confirmed by the factory this week