The Lister Storm was a homologated racing car built by Lister Cars of the United Kingdom beginning in 1993. Often called a supercar, the Storm used the largestV12 engine ever fitted to a production road car up to that time, a 7.0 L (6996 cc/426 in³) Jaguar unit. Due to the high US$350,000 price of the vehicle, only four examples were produced before production of the road-going Storm ceased. The Lister company continues in producing racing models to this day. 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. ... Lister Cars was a manufacturer of sports cars in the United Kingdom. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Supercar may also refer to the 1960s television series Supercar, or the Italian title of Knight Rider, another TV-show A supercar is type of exotic high-performance automobile. ... 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. ... Jaguars V12 was one of the premiere powerplants of the 1970s and 1980s. ... The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. ...
The bored and stroked 2-valve Lister V12 produced 407.2 kW (546 hp) and 786.37 N·m (580 ft·lbf) of torque. The front-enginedrear wheel drive car weighed 1664 kg (3668 lb), and was capable of spriting to 60 mph (97 km/h) in just 4.1 seconds. In Automobile design, an FR, or Front-engine, Rear wheel drive, layout places the engine in the front of the vehicle and drive wheels at the rear. ... Rear wheel drive was a common form of engine/transmission layout used in automobiles throughout the 20th century. ...
Lister produce the storm as " a comfortable, practical, high performance road car capable of carrying four people in luxury..." It is certainly a very purposeful looking car, with a 7 litre twin supercharged V12 engine producing 396 bhp giving the Storm more than enough performance to frighten better known supercars.
The ListerStorm was a homologated racing car built by Lister Cars of the United Kingdom beginning in 1993.
Lister, for the first time, created its own chassis - aluminium space frame structure, which was claimed to provide better crumple in crash than carbon fiber monocoque (but they did not mention the inferior rigidity / weight ratio).
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