We wrote about the Mulholland Legend a few months back. Here’s the link. If you can’t be bothered to click it, the headline is that Mulholland is a new car company based in Derby with an engineering background in motorsports and supercar manufacturing. The Legend 480 is its first car.
To be honest we were cynical about the thing back in May, mainly because the company was making noises about being the new TVR – the owner is an ex-TVR owner and loves the things – but also because the images of the car were renderings.
It turns out our cynicism was well placed because at the time the company was hoping to deliver the first cars to customers by September. Well, it’s late September now and here we are, with nothing but a set of sketches of a car interior. Nice sketches, but sketches all the same.
There are still no pictures of an actual car, although the computer renderings have been updated to include some yellow bits.
The interior, then. As you can see it features quite minimalist and…shock and awe…quite like the sort of thing a modern TVR might do: very high set centre console, open gated manual gearbox, that sort of thing. You’ll notice the pair of curved carbon fibre panels too, both incorporating LCD screens and which look both expensive to engineer and manufacture. Again, we’ll believe those when we see them.
The Legend has been styled by the same fella who designed the TVR Tuscan Speed Six, Damian McTaggart, and if it’s ever built will be done so using a carbon fibre chassis, with suspension, engines and other oily bits sourced from various suppliers that Mulholland already has links with thanks to the motorsport thing. The ‘480’ part of the name is the car’s metric horsepower output, which comes from a GM 6.2-litre V8 petrol engine.
Very old school, right? However, at this sort of scale Mulholland doesn’t have to worry too much about emissions regulations (the company will only sell a couple of dozen of these, if any), and if customers demand it the chassis is capable of accommodating all manner of other engines anyway.
It’ll all be knocked together in Mulholland’s Derby factory, which is already capable of churning out chassis parts and components, again because of the motorsport link and, actually, giving this car a fighting chance of being made – and for a reasonable price. “Reasonable” is relative, of course. This is probably going to cost around £130,000. A whole heap for a car that may turn out to be a whole heap, but on the other hand, an absolute bargain for what is basically a bespoke supercar from a tried-and-trusted motorsport manufacturer. And a very rare one at that.
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