Nine years and two canned projects after the brilliant M12 burst onto the scene, Noble is back! And this time the British sports car maker is setting its sights even higher.
These are the first official images of the M600, a 650bhp, 225mph, £200,000 hypercar which takes the fledgling manufacturer deep into uncharted territory populated by some of the fastest and most focused models on the market, including the Ferrari 430 Scuderia and Lamborghini Murcielago LP640-4. AutoExpress
Despite the unhappy departure of company founder – and engineering genius – Lee Noble, the low-volume performance car specialist has forged ahead with its latest model.
Sporting a kerb weight of only 1 275kg, M600 rushes the 0-100km/h sprint in a shade over 3 seconds, before powering on all the way to 362km/h.
Pretty optimistic claims, yet considering the 478kW/818Nm turbocharged 4.4l V8 amidships and you start to get a handle on how those performance numbers come about…
M600 is powered by a Volvo XC90 sourced V8 engine – a curious source of power for supercar baiting performance.
Despite a Volvo heritage this engine features radically oversquare dimensions (94mm bore versus 79.5mm stroke), which ensures uncanny revability.
Noble M600 customers will have option on reduced power output versions too, scaled down due to more restrictive ECU programming parameters from 478kW to either 404- or 330kW.
Traction control, almost symbolically, is disabled by a switch modelled on the RAF’s Tornado fighter bomber’s missile release tab – nice touch; the M600 is not for pacifists then…
Noble’s M600 is set to make its public debut at the Goodwood Revival event in September.
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