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Ariel Motor Company Ltd is a low-volume performance motor vehicle manufacturing company in Crewkerne, in Somerset, England. Founded by Simon Saunders in 1991 as Solocrest Ltd., the name was changed in 1999 to Ariel Motor Company Ltd. The original Ariel Motors remains as the trading company of the Ariel Owners Motorcycle Club (AOMCC) Ariel Motorcycles firm. Ariel Motor Company is one of the UK's smallest automotive companies, with just 19 employees, producing up to 100 cars per year.
In January, 2015, Ariel introduced the Nomad, a buggy designed along the same principles as the Atom, at the Autosport International Show. Visually, it’s clearly related to the Atom, but the Nomad is also substantially different. It has a similar exoskeletal structure made up from welded tubing, but it incorporates substantial rollover protection. It has a fully enclosed tube-frame roof built from thicker material, its suspension is built to handle high-speed off-roading, and its Honda-sourced, 2.4-liter four-cylinder is stroked for extra torque production. The body panels differs from the Atom, they are made from flexible polyethylene plastic as to withstand impacts. That’s the same stuff road cones are made of...
Like its Atom counterpart, the Nomad is powered by a supercharged Honda iVTEC four-cylinder. The rear-mounted engine displaces 2.4-liters and features a longer stroke than the Atom’s engine, giving it as much power as the supercharged version of the track car. Output is rated at 290 horsepower and 251 pound-feet of torque. It comes mated to a six-speed manual gearbox with a hydraulic clutch and a limited-slip differential. Other differentials are optional as well, tailoring the Nomad for different conditions.
Though it’s not four-wheel-drive, the Nomad should have no issues with traction thanks to the engine’s weight being over the drive tires. And though engine output doesn’t seem comparatively impressive, the Nomad’s power-to-weight ratio is rather phenomenal with only 670 Kg to motivate. That’s only 57 Kg more than the Atom.
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Thanks to @Tsukishima for the text and spec table.
Note: this thread has been updated from the standard Nomad to the Supercharged Nomad to preserve the amount of votes and so that I don't need to create an extra thread.
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