NOBLE

Noble Automotive was established in 1999 by Lee Noble in Leeds, West Yorkshire, to build high-speed sports cars with a rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout. The first model, the M10, was a two-seat convertible with a 2.5-litre engine and was soon replaced by the M12 (2000–2008), a steel-framed car with a roll cage and fibreglass bodywork powered by tuned turbocharged Ford Duratec V6 engines. The M12 coupe evolved through the GTO, GTO-3 and GTO-3R, and the M400 of 2004–2007, the track variant, produced 425 bhp.

The company was sold in August 2006, and Lee Noble left in 2008. The M15 introduced a new space-frame chassis, and in 2009 the M600 arrived with 650 bhp from a 4.4-litre twin-turbo V8 derived from a Volvo engine and a six-speed manual gearbox. Only 220 GTO-3Rs and M400s were exported to the United States.