Simon Saunders, Ariel’s director and the creator of the original Atom, describes the Nomad 2 as a ‘truly remarkable car’. ‘Making the same car capable of reliably and repeatedly jumping the crest of ...

Launched in 2003, the Atom 2 that followed had as much as 300bhp courtesy of a new supercharged Honda unit, and that was a recipe Ariel stuck with for the Atom 3 of 2007.But the next chapter in ...

GM engineers were on hand and reportedly mighty impressed by the little car’s trip to 60 that took only 2.8 seconds. Orders are now being taken for the 2006 Ariel Atom in the U.S. and Brammo ...

Ariel has announced the latest car to join its hardcore driver-focused line-up, the Atom 3.5R. Like the standard Atom 3.5, the R is powered by a supercharged version of the Honda Civic Type-R 2.0 ...

Honda also supplies Ariel with the Civic 2.4 engine for the Nomad and a 1.2-litre V4 bike engine for the Ace. There are few poor Honda engines, but the 2.0 in Atom 4 spec is particularly fine.

But hey, your neighbors don't know an Ariel Atom from a Corbin Sparrow. Just play the famous video of Clarkson making a fool of himself in the Atom, and no one needs to know you only spent about ...

The Ariel Atom V8 is bonkers. 500bhp in a car that weighs 550kg, giving a power to weight ratio of over 900bhp per ton and 0-60mph in a claimed 2.3sec. According to Ariel boss Simon Saunders ...