Gorgeous roadster breathes ’60s motorsport cachet into supercar market

Nichols reveals the sub-2,000-lb 650-hp N1A

Legendary F1 engineer Steve Nichols made his mark during the 1980s and ’90s, but at least a small part of him wondered what it would have been like to be in the game a quarter-century earlier. That spark grew into a blaze, pushing Nichols out of retirement to create his own company and street car project. The Nichols N1A race-inspired roadster has a pedigree like nothing else before it, designed as a modern take on the great race cars of the 1960s, specifically the very first car built by the McLaren team. The N1A’s dramatic curves, razor-sharp edges and polished components definitely hark back to a prettier time in race and road history.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Supercar, F1, Motorsport

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Author: C.C. Weiss