Initially it might seem surprising that there hasn’t been a scale model of an Ariel Atom before now. After all, the car is extremely popular and it’s been in production for 16 years.

The end result, the 1450 pound Ariel Atom 700 achieves a Power to weight ratio that exceeds most all production cars, including exotics, with only 2.07 pounds per horsepower! Along with this ...

Several sports car firms rejected his idea, so he set up the Ariel Motor Company to build the Atom himself. Arch Motors collaborated on the steel skeleton and Saunders set about sourcing ...