Category: Exotic Sports 
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Hypercar performance, excellent handling, hand-built exclusivity.
The not-insignificant £200k price tag, absence of ABS, some aspects of interior finish.
Blinding performance and handling but no so blinding that you can't see the £200,000 list price.
The founder of Noble Cars, Lee Noble, was a bloke with a vision. He envisioned a sports car with the performance to match the fastest supercars ever made - with particular inspiration of the Ferrari Enzo - but with a price of less than six figures.
Although Lee is no longer with the company that still bears his name, the M600 is the product of not just his labour, but also of the people who've run the company since his departure.
In most areas the M600 remains not a million miles from where it was originally meant to be. Its pace - a 225mph top whack, 0-60mph in comfortably less than four seconds - is right up there with cars like the Enzo, the Pagani Zonda and the Porsche Carrera GT.
Certainly, there's no doubting the potency of the hardware: the M600 has a steel spaceframe chassis, in which sits a twin-turbocharged, 4.4-litre V8 engine producing some 650bhp. Even more powerful versions could be available later. The unit is tweaked by an American tuners, Motorkraft, but originally was developed by Yamaha for use by Volvo - you'll find it, sans turbos, and with a rather more modest output, in the Volvo XC90.
What has changed since the original conception is that the price isn't too far away from where those cars were either. Noble is asking £200,000 for this car.
Why does it cost so much? Its body doesn't come cheap: never in the original specification was the carbon-fibre bodywork the M600 currently sports. Also, its chassis is now hand-built at Noble's factory in Leicestershire, rather than fabricated in South Africa as the old Noble M12 was.
Questions, then: just how fast is the M600 on the road and track? And does it performance go some way to justifying that price tag? Let's find out.
