{"id":14932,"date":"2010-06-17T15:14:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T14:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=14932"},"modified":"2022-06-15T13:00:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T12:00:09","slug":"englands-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/features\/englands-glory\/","title":{"rendered":"England&#8217;s Glory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forget casinos. The fastest way \u2013 literally \u2013 to make a small fortune out of a large one is to try to create your own British sports car. History is littered with sports car firms that have gone spectacularly bust, yet every year more investors get bored of buying off-the-shelf Ferraris and Lamborghinis and instead sink millions into a new supercar firm, often bearing their own name, and destined to sink without trace, taking their readies with it. Of the dozens of British sports car firms that have launched or been resurrected over the past thirty years only one \u2013 Ariel &#8211; has established itself as regular car producer. Other, more famous names have imploded; most notably TVR, which was bought by the then 24 year-old Russian oligarch Nikolai Smolenski in 2004 but in 2006 shut its Blackpool factory. Yet more \u2013 like Noble and Arash &#8211; are perennially \u2018in development\u2019, but might one day make it (back) into production. And a handful of long-established firms like Caterham, Bristol and Morgan chug quietly away making idiosyncratic cars in comparatively tiny numbers for intensely loyal customers, and roll their eyes patiently at the others who arrive in a blaze of press releases but disappear without actually building a car.<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/TVR_Tuscan_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15022\" title=\"TVR_Tuscan_3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/TVR_Tuscan_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/06\/TVR_Tuscan_3.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/06\/TVR_Tuscan_3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/06\/TVR_Tuscan_3-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/06\/TVR_Tuscan_3-278x208.jpg 278w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/06\/TVR_Tuscan_3-526x394.jpg 526w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/06\/TVR_Tuscan_3-592x444.jpg 592w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/06\/TVR_Tuscan_3-572x429.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>So why do wannabe Enzo Ferraris and Ferdinand Porsches of these Islands fly in the face of the evidence and think they can found their own fast car family? Is it the ego trip of having your name on the nose of a supercar, and not just in the logbook? Do they really believe they can take on the vast budgets of the big players? Or can they outsmart them by offering something idiosyncratic, rare and very British to buyers bored with ten-a-penny Porsches?<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Honda_racer_1920x1080.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15018\" title=\"Honda_racer_1920x1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Honda_racer_1920x1080.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Honda_racer_1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Honda_racer_1920x1080-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Honda_racer_1920x1080-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Honda_racer_1920x1080-624x351.jpg 624w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Honda_racer_1920x1080-960x540.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Honda_racer_1920x1080-278x156.jpg 278w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Honda_racer_1920x1080-854x480.jpg 854w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Honda_racer_1920x1080-526x295.jpg 526w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Honda_racer_1920x1080-789x444.jpg 789w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Honda_racer_1920x1080-572x321.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>It is almost impossible for a small company with a tiny budget to develop a fully-featured car to anything like the standards of the big makers. Making a car fast and agile is relatively easy; making its doors seal properly and its windscreen wipers function are next to impossible without budgets in the hundreds of millions. Customers are aware that they are not buying a mass-produced Porsche, but they are still wealthy people with high expectations making an expensive, discretionary purchase meant to give them pleasure, not a headache.<\/p>\n<p>Ariel\u2019s owner Simon Saunders is a brilliant designer, but his business nous is better. His solution to the problem of doors and glazing and cabin trim was to design a car that didn\u2019t have any. This makes the Atom light, and affordable and makes it look unlike anything else on the road. This in turn guarantees a tall pile of orders, but Saunders has been careful not to expand too rapidly.<br \/>\n\u201cWhat made me want to build my own car? Stupidity, I suppose,\u201d he says. \u201cOr bloody-mindedness. If you were to analyse the proposition properly, you just wouldn\u2019t embark on it. When people come to talk to me about starting their own sports car firm, I warn them not to if they can\u2019t afford to lose it all.\u201d Saunders definitely hasn\u2019t. He can\u2019t put a figure on the amount he has invested in Somerset-based Ariel since 2000, but says that the true cost is easily in seven figures. But it is the only Brit sports car start-up of recent years to establish itself as a viable business, with acclaim from the critics and a long queue of buyers. \u201cYou have to make a virtue out of being small. The Atom doesn\u2019t have doors because they are an engineering nightmare, and very expensive to get right. Here, unlike Porsche, you can come and watch your car being built and get to know the people building it.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Ariel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15020\" title=\"Ariel\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Ariel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Ariel.jpg 553w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Ariel-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Ariel-278x161.jpg 278w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Ariel-526x305.jpg 526w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Wasn\u2019t he tempted to name it after himself, like so many other sports car entrepreneurs? \u201cI\u2019m not that egocentric, and I don\u2019t think a car called the \u2018Saunders\u2019 would sell that well!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But why does this lemming-like urge to start a sports car form seem to happen all the time in the UK, and seldom elsewhere? A country\u2019s car industry is often a reflection of its car-buying public. Britain\u2019s certainly is. It\u2019s hard to quantify this, but talk to a senior engineer or marketeer at any car company and they\u2019ll tell you that British buyers are the most demanding in the world. Demanding but open-minded: our petrolheadedness continues to support a low-volume sports car industry unlike any other. But while we\u2019re sentimental about plucky one-man bands and venerable British brands, we won\u2019t abandon our high standards for them. If their cars aren\u2019t good enough we\u2019ll just buy another Boxster. That open-mindedness encourages firms to start. The high standards shut them.<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Arctic_1024x768.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15017\" title=\"Arctic_1024x768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Arctic_1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Arctic_1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Arctic_1024x768-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Arctic_1024x768-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Arctic_1024x768-278x208.jpg 278w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Arctic_1024x768-526x394.jpg 526w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Arctic_1024x768-592x444.jpg 592w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Arctic_1024x768-572x429.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>The other crucial ingredient is a supply of hundred-plus octane petrolheads prepared to put their fortunes into these follies; other country\u2019s eccentric millionaires must just be more sensible. Take Arash Farboud, for example. Messrs Ferrari, Lamborghini and Porsche were all happy to have a make of sports car bearing their surname. But that\u2019s not enough for the extraordinary 35 year-old Cambridge multi-millionaire. Since 1998 he has invested around \u00a34 million in two new British sports car firms, one bearing his surname, the other his forename. Aged just 23, he asked Porsche to build him a road-going version of its ferocious GT1 racing car. Porsche turned him down, so he decided to build his own. The resulting Farboud supercar was renamed the Farbio when control of that project was handed to a group of investors, and when it was bought out again this year it became the Ginetta F400. Arash has now founded Arash Cars to build his latest creation, the \u00a3320,000 AF10.<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Arash-rear.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15023\" title=\"Arash-rear\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Arash-rear.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1912\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Arash-rear.jpg 1912w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Arash-rear-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Arash-rear-1024x578.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Arash-rear-624x352.jpg 624w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Arash-rear-278x157.jpg 278w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Arash-rear-526x297.jpg 526w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Arash-rear-786x444.jpg 786w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Arash-rear-572x323.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1912px) 100vw, 1912px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>But his huge investment in two of his own supercars hasn\u2019t dented his ability to afford the other guys\u2019. He has owned countless Lamborghinis and Porsches and even a Bugatti Veyron, all funded by his stake in the family pharmaceutical company and other business interests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI need to be buying other people\u2019s cars. I appreciate the technology and the engineering, and it\u2019s retail therapy too,\u201d he says. \u201cBut I have to be creative and I\u2019m not happy unless I\u2019m building stuff. I\u2019m completely nuts about cars and I can\u2019t just take something off the shelf. And it\u2019s really cool to be driving a car with your name on the X-box.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But will he ever get any of that \u00a34 million back? \u201cIt\u2019s a labour of love. If you want to make money, make widgets.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could our car industry be safe in the hands of petrol-headed lunatics? 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