Noble has released some imagery and specifications on its latest super car, the M600. You may recall Noble is the British manufacturer that used to build those stylish and powerful M12 and M400 cars until it sold the rights to 1G Racing out of the United States. It, however, did retain the rights to those cars in the United Kingdom as well as the Noble nameplate.

Power for Noble’s newest street car bred for the tracks will come from a Volvo-based 4.4-liter twin-turbocharged V-8 that churns out 650 hp and 618 lb-ft of torque. Besides using his or her right foot to control the amount of power sent to the rear wheels, the driver can also change, via a computer, the output from to 650 horsepower to 550 or even 450. By keeping weight down to a mere 2,810 pounds, the M600 with all its horses saddled up is capable of being propelled to 60 mph in 3.0 seconds and on to a top speed of 225 mph. We can understand why Noble chose to allow the stability control to be turned completely off, but the absence of anti-lock brakes seems barbaric with a car at this price point and speed capabilities. Speaking of price, the M600 will run those in Europe roughly £200,000 or approximately $327,860 as of this writing.

It is quite a price hike considering that people in the United States can get their hands on a Rossion Q1, the 1G-Racing version of the M12, for approximately $100,000; although it makes a much more pedestrian 450 hp.

The 70 or so customers that had their deposits on the Noble M14 or M15 will  be sorry to hear that they will have to either choose putting their money towards the three-times-more-expensive M600 or get a refund. You can find more Noble M600 pictures here.

[via AutoCar.co.uk]

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