What 895 kg actually
feels like.
People keep asking us to describe it, and the honest answer is that the number doesn't survive contact with the road. You don't feel 895 kilograms. You feel the absence of the other five hundred.
It's in the first thirty metres. The steering loads up off-centre and the car has already turned - there's no pause while mass makes up its mind. Brake for the first wet corner and the pedal tells you exactly how much grip is underneath you, because there isn't a tonne and a half pressing the question. The car asks less of the road, so the road gives you more back.
This month the first three customer Speedsters left the bench. Each one was driven on the Warwickshire loop, signed, numbered, and handed over in person. Watching N°003 leave the yard under its own power, quietly, in the rain, was the best afternoon this company has had.
The conversation we wanted to have is finally happening in driveways instead of spreadsheets. More soon.
