First one ever seen- Noble M400

 

 

The Club Sportiva booth at the 2018 Silicon Valley Auto Show featured a Noble M400 a mid-mounted transverse engine sports car built from 2004 to 2007 in South Africa and sold by Noble Automotive Limited a low-production British sports car company. Only about 220 Noble M400s were imported into the United States and sold for $95,000 each. Noble M400s were classified as kit cars, as the cars were imported less the engine which was then installed by 1G Racing in Hamilton Ohio

 

 

 

The power plant is an aluminum 3-liter DOHC Ford Duratec V6 (as used in the Contour) with four valves per cylinders. Roush Engineering modified the engine with hotter camshafts, revised fuel injection, and twin turbochargers to develop 425 horsepower.

 

 

 

Contemporary road tests found the 2320-pound car accelerated from rest to 60 mph in 3.6 seconds and covered the ¼-mile dragstrip in 12 seconds. With a steel space frame with an integral roll cage fitted with double wishbone suspension front and rear the Noble M400 could achieve 1.01 G of lateral acceleration on the skid pad.

 

 

Club Sportiva is an exotic car rental company with clubhouses in Menlo Park, Los Angeles, Monterey, and San Jose with rentals available for special occasions, such weddings, anniversaries or birthdays There are a variety of cars and programs to choose from – check them out at   https://www.clubsportiva.com/

 

All photos by the author