Wednesday 16th March 2011

Road Legal Track Toy Aims At Ariel

Mono offers 170mph alternative for 'minimalist' types

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The single-seat Briggs Mono is a new lightweight ultra high performance sports car that its developers - brothers Ian and Neil Briggs – say will set a new benchmark in the sector.

We’re not exactly sure where that sector starts and ends, but cars like the Ariel Atom and KTM X-bow would seem to be in the middle of it. At around £80k, the Briggs Mono looks set to sit somewhere near the top in price terms if nothing else.

According to the company website which features these CG renderings, the car will run a 2.3 litre inline four making 280bp. With a kerb weight of 540kgs that gives us a power to weight ratio of 520bhp per tonne and a top speed of 174mph, so the Mono should be sufficiently terrifying for the 50 or so people every year who like that sort of thing, and from whom Briggs hopes to extract custom.

As you would expect from the images, the Mono is designed to be constructed from carbon composite, and it also has an FIA compliant safety structure. You can find out more about it here.

 

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Saw this on autocar yesterday. Love the idea of a single seat road rocket but the price is too steep. This is the sort of thing I wouln't mind putting together as a kit for twenty grand