150mph demo in an Ultima

Rob took me for a ride in his Ultima with 400bhp and no windscreen! The only thing I can compare it to is Lemans racer. When you look into the cockpit it is full of gages, lights and buttons. The whole car is perfectly trimmed and finshed with plenty of nice touches that add to the authentic feel of this factory built ex-demonstrator - even the indicators are controlled by stainless steel toggle switches on the dash as opposed to conventional plastic stalks from the steering colomn. More toggle switches control which fuel tank the fuel gage reads from and the various coloured warning lights illuminate according to drops in oil pressure.

^ It's ok mum I was safe - I was wearing four points..... ^

The car itself has essentially the same engine as the Corvette but weighs in at only 900kilos fully fuelled - that's only 200kilos more than the Elise!