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Another Brit sports car company bites the dust
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 12:39 pm
by ryallm
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
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 1:52 pm
by jamie
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
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 2:15 pm
by YvoTuk
Noble effectively dead? Is that so? Have I missed something
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 8:51 pm
by ryallm
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
Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 8:55 am
by Brian J
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.
Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 10:04 am
by Andy G
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
