The road to cell
PLEASE, DO NOT TURN THE PAGE BEFORE reading this. I know what you’re thinking: another swoopy, extremely high-powered hypercar, costing megabucks, from a brand you’ve never heard of. And you guessed right, it has indeed got a battery and there isn’t a petrol-powered engine in sight. But I promise you that reading on is worthwhile, because what you’ll learn about might, just might, be the saviour of the sort of cars that readers of this magazine love.
One of the key people behind it is Matt Faulks, former boss of racing car support and development specialist Tour de Force. I always make a point of answering the phone to Faulks, not least because he once offered me a drive in an F1 car before Saturday morning practice at the 2018 Belgian Grand Prix, and as ludicrous as it still sounds to me, it actually happened (see evo 267). So when he said he’d started an entirely new project with a long-standing friend back in the lockdown winter of 2020, and that it was going to produce a car that featured over 1000bhp but, crucially, weighed similar to a Lotus Elise, and that it might in its
