2010 Noble M600
The wheels of the 2010 Noble M600 spin as the Michelins do battle with a wet track and 650 horsepower. We're already doing over 100 mph. Now 120 mph and the twin-turbo V8 sounds ever more urgent. At 160 mph, the Noble starts to feel a little light as we crest a brow on this old British airport runway. Into 6th gear and at 180 mph the acceleration starts to tail off a little. The throttle stays buried, the turbos strain and the speedo needle swings past 200 mph.
Now ******* the brakes. The M600 does without ABS and the power assist for the brakes has been kept to a minimum, so the pedal feels solid and demands care. The Noble is not for the molly-coddled; it's a back-to-nature supercar that counters the electronic complication of the Ferrari 458 Italia with elegant simplicity.
The 2010 Noble M600 is defined more by what it doesn't have than what it does. There's no stability control, no ABS, no electronically adjustable damping, no all-wheel drive, no automated manual transmission with shift paddles and no airbags. It does have low-speed traction control, but this can be switched off using a missile launcher button pinched from a Tornado jet fighter. Politically correct this car is not.
The Noble M600's own thrust is delivered by a DOHC 4.4-liter Yamaha V8, an engine originally developed to fit transversely under the hood of the Volvo XC90, which is why it has a 60-degree angle between its cylinder banks. The 4,439cc V8 is manufactured in Japan, then shipped to Motorkraft in the U.S., where a forged crankshaft, forged connecting rods and forged pistons are substituted before bolting on a pair of Garrett turbochargers.
When you fire up this engine from Yamaha (noted for the V6 engine it provided for the original Ford Taurus SHO and its development of overhead-cam technology for Toyota), the twin-turbos muffle the soundtrack, so it doesn't have the bark of a Ferrari V8 or the scream of a Lamborghini V12.
Full story @ http://www.insideline.com/noble/m60...ml?tid=edmunds.h..topfeatures.fdnoblem600.0.*
The wheels of the 2010 Noble M600 spin as the Michelins do battle with a wet track and 650 horsepower. We're already doing over 100 mph. Now 120 mph and the twin-turbo V8 sounds ever more urgent. At 160 mph, the Noble starts to feel a little light as we crest a brow on this old British airport runway. Into 6th gear and at 180 mph the acceleration starts to tail off a little. The throttle stays buried, the turbos strain and the speedo needle swings past 200 mph.
Now ******* the brakes. The M600 does without ABS and the power assist for the brakes has been kept to a minimum, so the pedal feels solid and demands care. The Noble is not for the molly-coddled; it's a back-to-nature supercar that counters the electronic complication of the Ferrari 458 Italia with elegant simplicity.
The 2010 Noble M600 is defined more by what it doesn't have than what it does. There's no stability control, no ABS, no electronically adjustable damping, no all-wheel drive, no automated manual transmission with shift paddles and no airbags. It does have low-speed traction control, but this can be switched off using a missile launcher button pinched from a Tornado jet fighter. Politically correct this car is not.
The Noble M600's own thrust is delivered by a DOHC 4.4-liter Yamaha V8, an engine originally developed to fit transversely under the hood of the Volvo XC90, which is why it has a 60-degree angle between its cylinder banks. The 4,439cc V8 is manufactured in Japan, then shipped to Motorkraft in the U.S., where a forged crankshaft, forged connecting rods and forged pistons are substituted before bolting on a pair of Garrett turbochargers.
When you fire up this engine from Yamaha (noted for the V6 engine it provided for the original Ford Taurus SHO and its development of overhead-cam technology for Toyota), the twin-turbos muffle the soundtrack, so it doesn't have the bark of a Ferrari V8 or the scream of a Lamborghini V12.
Full story @ http://www.insideline.com/noble/m60...ml?tid=edmunds.h..topfeatures.fdnoblem600.0.*
