NOBLE CAUSE
‘THE M15 WAS, WITHOUT A SHADOW of a doubt, the best car we ever made,’ says Lee Noble, not boastfully but with certainty. The handful of journalists who got to drive the prototype in 2006 agreed with him, including Steve Sutcliffe, who wrote: ‘It feels like a very quick, very grown-up version of the M12 but with the same great steering and handling and soothing ride.’
At that moment, Noble Automotive looked poised to step up a gear. The M15 should have been the car that cemented the reputation of Lee Noble and the company that bore his name. Instead, just 18 months later, Lee had lost everything.
Today, he is working out of a small, single-storey workshop behind a row of terraced houses in a north Lincolnshire village. There’s a well-used M12 in here, a new, partially built trackday single-seater and, in the centre of the shop,
