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Origins
Laurence Pearce's Lister company — heir to the 1950s Knobbly legend — built the Storm in 1993 around the largest V12 fitted to a production road car since the war: seven litres of Jaguar-derived engine in a front-mid position, aluminium honeycomb construction, and four seats of theoretical habitability at 200-mph capability. Road-car sales were homeopathic — four built — but the racing programme became the point: Storm GTs contested Le Mans and, after years of development, dominated privateer GT racing, winning the FIA GT championship in 2000 against factory-backed opposition. The Storm's odd proportions and obscure badge belied genuine engineering seriousness. It stands as the last analogue British V12 supercar — outlived by its own racing reputation, which remains formidable in historic paddocks.
Green Lister Storm · exfordy / Brian Snelson · CC BY 2.0
