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Hedge wrote: ↑Mon Feb 28, 2022 6:20 am

Jerry wrote: ↑Sat Feb 26, 2022 4:43 pmFastlane, Really appreciate the update on my post. Wonder what the big changes will be?

The engine, I reckon

Cheers,
Hedge

I'm pretty sure there'll still be an engine Hedgey Boy. Interesting

Cheers,
Stu

Jerry wrote: ↑Sat Feb 26, 2022 4:43 pmFastlane, Really appreciate the update on my post. Wonder what the big changes will be?

The engine, I reckon

Cheers,
Hedge

If only they could magic up a way to make it easier to clean...

When I was there tail end of last year, Steve R was telling me how they'd designed the apertures to allow easier ingress and egress. That's all I know.

I imagine they will use quite a lot of the improvements that they implemented on the Atom 4 vs. the 3.5 - aluminium hubs, thicker chassis tubing, revised suspension geometry to reduce squat and dive and as, Matt Jones Nomad "1" shows, the new dash and the AP Racing brakes. The biggest question is whether they will use the same drivetrain as the 4 - which I assume they will - but perhaps using the traction control and the variable boost controller to enable the driver to optimise it for use on road and then off-road?.

Fastlane, Really appreciate the update on my post. Wonder what the big changes will be?

That's me Jerry, it was an email from Ben Gunn (and I meant 28 months, edited on FB!):

..."we are in the midst of Nomad 2 design and the chances of that being here by the time the 28-month lead time is up, is fairly high I’d say… hopefully."

Someone on FB reckons the Nomad 2 will be around in 26 weeks time. Anyone else have any info on this?

Now that is one cool Nomad, imagine the battery won't last long.

At last - the Nomad 2 - looks pretty good off-road :-)

Did my usual sniff around the factory when I was there on 11th Sept. Guy on the production line said they had a small 'regular' Nomad build scheduled and sure enough, there were half a dozen brand new K24 engine on pallets in the yard. I was a bit surprised about the shipment of K24s from Honda as I thought they are no longer making them. I'm not aware of any current Honda using it, and thought Ariel had stockpiled them. Everyone still saying nothing useful about Nomad 2. Personally I'm sceptical about anything imminent in the absence of nothing visible yet whatsoever.

Beginning of September I was told that the next Nomad builts are on the schedule for end of the year.
At present they do Atom 4 only as per the customer order sequence.

Recently i don"t know, but i know they still produce Nomad only by batch/group.

Nice picture of a wishbone in the June edition of Autocar mag and that’s your lot until Ariel are good and ready.!

Has the factory produced any Nomads recently? All I see in pictures are Atom 4's...