Lister Cars is a British sports car manufacturer. 1963 Jaguar E-Type, a classic sports car A sports car is an automobile designed for performance driving. ... Automakers, also known as carmakers, automobile manufacturers, motor manufacturers, or the automobile industry are companies that design and manufacture automobiles. ...

George Lister and Sons

Beginning in 1954, company manager and racing car driver, Brian Lister, brought out a series of sports cars with MG or Bristol engines from a Cambridge factory. In 1957 a Jaguar engined version was made called the Lister-Jaguar which saw success against the Jaguar D-types and Aston Martins of the era. 34 were made. However, the death of one-armed Lister driver, Archie Scott-Brown, soured the image of racing and the company ceased car building in 1959. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Bristol Cars is a manufacturer of hand-built luxury cars, based at Filton, near Bristol, England. ... Geography Status City (1951) Region East of England Admin. ... Jaguar Cars is a British automobile manufacturer. ... Wikimedia Commons has more media related to: Jaguar D-type The Jaguar D-type, like its predecessor, is a factory-built race-car. ... Aston Martin Lagonda Limited is a manufacturer of luxury performance cars, whose headquarters are at Gaydon, Warwickshire, England in the United Kingdom. ... Archie Scott-Brown was a Formula One driver from Britain. ...

Lister Cars Ltd

The Lister company returned in 1986 as Lister Cars Ltd based in Leatherhead, Surrey, with con-man Laurence Pearce, building approximately 90 tuned Jaguar XJSs. Success at this endeavour led the company to design a new sports racer, the Lister Storm. Launched in 1993 as a street version, it would use the largest V12 engine ever fitted to a production road car up to that time. The homologated street version of the Storm GT used a 7.0 L (6996 cc/426 in³) Jaguar engine. Leatherhead is a small town in Surrey, England, on the River Mole, Surrey. ... 1988 Jaguar XJ-S The Jaguar XJ-S (later the XJS) is a luxury grand tourer produced by the British automaker Jaguar Cars. ... The Lister Storm was a homologated racing car built by Lister Cars of the United Kingdom beginning in 1993. ... This page lists superlatives of the automobile industry - that is, the smallest, largest, fastest, lightest, best-selling, and other such topics. ... A V12 is an internal combustion engine with 12 cylinders in V configuration. ... Homologation is a technical term, derived from the Greek homologos for agree, which is used in English to signify the granting of approval by an official authority. ... Jaguars V12 was one of the premiere powerplants of the 1970s and 1980s. ...

Today, the company continues to build a track-only Le Mans-type prototype racer, the Lister Storm LMP, with a modified Chevrolet V8 engine. The Lister Storm LMP is a racing car built by Lister Cars. ... Chevrolet (IPA: ʃɛv. ... The Liberty V8 aircraft engine clearly shows the configuration A V8 engine is a V engine with eight cylinders. ...

External link

• Lister Cars - official website