THE KITTEN SET TO ROAR AGAIN
Reliant of Tamworth’s 850cc Kitten was a utilitarian niche-market four-wheeler with no pretension to performance beyond economy. The sensational track-burning namesake with which renowned Aylesbury motor engineers Marshall & Fraser dominated one-litre Special Saloon events through the 1980s was a significantly less frugal feline, which borrowed nothing from the original Ogle design but its glass-reinforced plastic profile.
Now, after almost 30 years in hibernation, the team that evolved the multiple championship-winning legend – and has more than 100 race wins on its CV – has awoken the Kitten and sharpened its claws for a racing return. Not just to evoke memories of glory days past but also, one suspects, to enhance its impressive pedigree.
To begin to understand the world’s fastest Kitten, we need to go
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