Yes Sports brakes are an added extra - and I would recommend at least that - personally I wouldn’t buy without the big brakes but then I will always be looking at track work.Peter255 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 09, 2018 11:05 amTrigger,Trigger wrote: ↑Fri Nov 09, 2018 8:55 am I do get people’s concerns but Atoms and Nomads are never base spec cars - when I bought I first new one the reports said Abu £30k - yet I spent £45k in not a ridiculous spec. The point here is you can have an Atom 4 at just over £40k - it won’t have much on it and will be bog standard colours etc - but you can and some want that. As Karlv said - in the Us you get 2 specs of Nomad and neither were the spec he would have bought. This way you choose it all. And yes plenty I know trailer the car to track.
Adjustable suspension isn’t needed on the road. Sport brakes all round will still give way better braking than most sports cars. So the best thing in today’s world in Ariel giving us, the consumers, full choice on what we get imho.
And yes it is the closest thing I have to a religion....
Remember sports brakes are not standard they are a significant cost option. Do you think even on the road base model brakes (smaller than sport) are suitable or sensible for a 160mph 320BHP car? They certainly look rather weak. I would agree sports brakes would be fine for the road. I don't think the base ones should be used on supercharged / turbo cars over 300BHP. IMO same for the LSD on the turbo car due to the additional torque. This is purely for safety on the road.
But even standard brakes will I am sure be fine on the road. It isn’t a 160 mph car on the road is it. As I said before even the minimum brakes I get will have better braking than a lot of very fast cars. All I am trying to say is that you can get a car at very little above the £40k mark - it wouldn’t be what I would get but if you really want one and that’s all you have....