Lister boss Lawrence Whittaker has revealed that the company will build a new version of its classic Lister Jaguar Knobbly sports car.
Whittaker released a rendering of the new car, a modern reimagining of the 1958 racing machine, on social media, adding: “we will build it”. No technical details have been released, however.
The image shows the new Knobbly will be a two-seater maintaining a style close to the original, complete with the distinctive headlights, a long bonnet and a low air intake. Given the design, it seems to retain the front-engined, rear-wheel-drive format.
Lister began building continuation runs of the original Knobbly in 2014, of a track car and a roadgoing model. The latter offered a choice of two six-cylinder Jaguar engines: a 4.2-litre unit and a 3.8-litre race-spec example.
Brian Lister founded his eponymous company to produce sports cars in 1954. In 1957, it developed a machine based around a 3.4-litre Jaguar D-Type with a new aerodynamic aluminimum body. That car also formed the basis for a single-seater car, and they became known as Lister Knobblys due to their sculpted bodywork.
The revived firm, based in Cambridge, recently released the LFT-666 (previously known as the Thunder), a 666bhp reworking of the Jaguar F-Type, and is currently working on a 200mph reworking of the F-Pace SUV named the LFP.
Whittaker, who acquired Lister in 2013, has also revealed plans to develop a sucessor to the Storm supercar of 1993.
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Knobbly.......
Not the first Car with an er em unusual name, Porsche, Ferrari to name two had cars with unusual names applied to them , anyone out there know them...?
No Caps
Now Peter, you promised everyone here to not capitalize the word "Car" in your not-so-rare posts!
Fingers were crossed behind
Oops!
I’ve not be well, must try harder!
Knobbly. Knobbly. Knobbly.
So, apparently it's an historical name? Erm... Choose another one.
Jeebus. It's beyond bad.
Quite like Knobbly actually.
Quite like Knobbly actually. At least it's not a number/letter alphabet soup. Looks tasty though, whatever it's called.