Honda also supplies Ariel with the Civic 2.4 engine for the Nomad and a 1.2-litre V4 bike engine for the Ace. There are few poor Honda engines, but the 2.0 in Atom 4 spec is particularly fine.

Launched in 2003, the Atom 2 that followed had as much as 300bhp courtesy of a new supercharged Honda unit, and that was a recipe Ariel stuck with for the Atom 3 of 2007.But the next chapter in ...

Performance of the Honda Civic derived 2.4-litre four-pot ... tyres of 205 and 245 width all remain on the 3S. The rapid Ariel Atom 3S is on sale in North America for £56,236 ($89,750), some ...

Several sports car firms rejected his idea, so he set up the Ariel Motor Company ... Konis (£1169). The Atom 2 arrived in 2003 with the 2-litre unit from the Honda Civic Type-R (for the 220 ...

Say hello to the latest evolution of Ariel Motor's barely there bolide, the Atom 3.5R. It swipes the Sadev ... The supercharged Honda Type R 2.0-liter engine gets help from a new sidepod-mounted ...

But hey, your neighbors don't know an Ariel Atom from a Corbin Sparrow. Just play the famous video of Clarkson making a fool of himself in the Atom, and no one needs to know you only spent about ...