Ariel's Nomad 2 switches to Ford power offering as much as 305 hp and 382 lb-ft to move 1,550 pounds, and gets a stiffer spaceframe and better suspension.
Simon Saunders, director of Ariel, told Autocar that back when the company was only making the road-focused Atom, an American called the company asking for an Atom with 'about three feet' of suspension travel. Ariel wasn't ready to do that then, but the idea percolated until Ariel turned it into the Nomad, launched in 2015.
The dash to 60 miles per hour is estimated to take 3.4 seconds, hitting 100 mph in another 4.1 seconds. Larger rotors with 40% more swept area and ABS get the thing stopped in reasonable time. The engine breathes easier, too, thanks to a radiator 2.5 times larger than before, and multiple filtering stages for the intake air.
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