![]() importer TMI AutoTech offers Atom models with the larger 2.4-liter engine. And, as Jeremy Clarkson famously found out, it will also destroy your face. In top form, Ariel says the Atom will do 0 to 60 mph in 2.7 seconds, and reach a top speed of 155 mph. It produces 245 horsepower out of the box, but there are also options to supercharge it to 310 hp or 350 hp. The Sony Honda Afeela car is peak CES, and I’m totally here for itĪmazon Music now has a car mode, but don’t use it while drivingīase Atom models use a mostly-stock version of the 2.0-liter engine, with an Ariel-specific software tune and exhaust. with a General Motors Ecotec four-cylinder, and then there was the Atom 500, which featured a custom-built 3.0-liter V8. A handful of Atoms were also sold in the U.S. ![]() The latter is used in U.S.-spec Atoms and the off-road Nomad. The firm started out with a 2.0-liter engine from the previous-generation Civic Type R, and eventually added a 2.4-liter engine as well. Starting in 2003, Ariel has used multiple four-cylinder Honda engines in its cars, which are defined by a tubular exoskeleton structure. ![]() The company works out of a small shop in Somerset, England, and notes that it would take Honda just a few days to build that amount of Civics at the Japanese firm’s massive U.K. Ariel says it just completed its 1,500th Honda-powered car in 16 years. The two companies say they will renew their engine-supply arrangement, which is good news for anyone lusting after Ariel’s admirably minimal Atom and Nomad. British firm Ariel has one in Honda, which has supplied engines to the company for the past 16 years, and will continue to do so into the future. Life isn’t easy for small carmakers, but it can be easier when they find good partners.
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