M600 Production Delayed
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Seems the first customer M600 has been delayed a while as they are waiting for the carbon fibre to turn up to finish it off! First car is due to be delivered next month now.
"Production work on a new £200,000 sports car has been delayed.
The Noble M600 supercar will compete with Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Bugattis.
It will be hand-made at a factory near Braunstone and up to 50 a year will be produced.
Noble managing director Peter Boutwood said the first car should appear next month, a few weeks later than planned.He said it had taken longer to transport the carbon fibre needed for the car's bodywork from the United States.
"The first car is three-quarters built but we are waiting for the carbon fibre bodywork", said Mr Boutwood.
Carbon fibre is the same material used on Formula 1 racing cars and will make the M600 both light and strong, and also easy to handle. Noble will initially make one M600 every three weeks, stepping up to one a week by the middle of next year.
Sixty people are on a waiting list for the car, which has a top speed of 225mph and will do 0-62mph in three seconds.
At 4.4 litres and 650-brake horse power, the M600's V8 Volvo engine is more than six times more powerful than a mid-range Ford Fiesta and will use more than twice the fuel to go the same distance.
Noble, which employs 15 people, recently relocated from Barwell to larger premises at the Meridian Business Park, close to the M1, to accommodate the new car."
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"Production work on a new £200,000 sports car has been delayed.
The Noble M600 supercar will compete with Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Bugattis.
It will be hand-made at a factory near Braunstone and up to 50 a year will be produced.
Noble managing director Peter Boutwood said the first car should appear next month, a few weeks later than planned.He said it had taken longer to transport the carbon fibre needed for the car's bodywork from the United States.
"The first car is three-quarters built but we are waiting for the carbon fibre bodywork", said Mr Boutwood.
Carbon fibre is the same material used on Formula 1 racing cars and will make the M600 both light and strong, and also easy to handle. Noble will initially make one M600 every three weeks, stepping up to one a week by the middle of next year.
Sixty people are on a waiting list for the car, which has a top speed of 225mph and will do 0-62mph in three seconds.
At 4.4 litres and 650-brake horse power, the M600's V8 Volvo engine is more than six times more powerful than a mid-range Ford Fiesta and will use more than twice the fuel to go the same distance.
Noble, which employs 15 people, recently relocated from Barwell to larger premises at the Meridian Business Park, close to the M1, to accommodate the new car."
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snuffy said:
"At 4.4 litres and 650-brake horse power, the M600's V8 Volvo engine is more than six times more powerful than a mid-range Ford Fiesta and will use more than twice the fuel to go the same distance." - Really ? Who writes this rubbish ?
Ha that was one of the sentences that stood out to me too - awful!Edited by snuffy on Friday 20th November 18:06
HeavySoul said:
Carbon fibre is the same material used on Formula 1 racing cars and will make the M600 both light and strong, and also easy to handle.
I can think of a better one."The chassis is made from steel, used in C1 Power Boats, the F1 of the water. It makes it less likely to rust away and means that if you throw it off a bridge it will float"
What total drivel.
peterguk M500 said:
So why not say 60 are sold?
On a wating list for what? To decide if they want to buy one?
Seems a very careful choice of words to me
There were over 60+ 'orders' for the thing-after-the-M15.On a wating list for what? To decide if they want to buy one?
Seems a very careful choice of words to me
Still, it'll be easy to track via the normal manufacturing stats, and if there are 60 out there we'll see "loads" of them starting to appear around here.
After all I see a Veyron every few weeks alongside the F40s and F50s, so a M600 won't be that hard to spot as it'll be in the same range production wise, and of course the Veyron is sold worldwide, the M600 isn't.
J
Don't be ridiculous!!
This happens all the time within the autoindustry and within large autocompanies. I've worked for 4 so have seen this many times (even seen a launch delayed due to suppliers)
Once, we were waiting 6 months for a subframe for an insurance repair for a vehicle whose production ended a mere 1 year before. Also couldnt get a gearbox for a vehicle one month out of warranty - had to wait 3 months. For an internation company to have those issues is a reality but is far more serious than the delay at Noble.
Supplier issues are common and given the size of Noble Automotive, the fact this is the ramp up to production and the fact this one part is delayed from one supplier, it really isnt a big deal.
This happens all the time within the autoindustry and within large autocompanies. I've worked for 4 so have seen this many times (even seen a launch delayed due to suppliers)
Once, we were waiting 6 months for a subframe for an insurance repair for a vehicle whose production ended a mere 1 year before. Also couldnt get a gearbox for a vehicle one month out of warranty - had to wait 3 months. For an internation company to have those issues is a reality but is far more serious than the delay at Noble.
Supplier issues are common and given the size of Noble Automotive, the fact this is the ramp up to production and the fact this one part is delayed from one supplier, it really isnt a big deal.
shimon340 said:
....not even a supplier issue. It's even less serious
"longer to transport the carbon fibre needed for the car's bodywork from the United States"
They should have ordered it sooner "longer to transport the carbon fibre needed for the car's bodywork from the United States"
After all, they must have known how much would be needed and how long it would take? Unless someone made a mistake, which is entirely possible - and that does happen in big multinationals as well!
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