UltimaSport

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Origins

By 1992 the Ultima Sport had refined the formula that would define the marque: an evolved spaceframe and suspension engineered around American V8 muscle — small-block Chevrolet becoming the canonical fit — with bodywork cleaned up from the kit-car origins toward genuine supercar presence. Built or self-assembled from the Hinckley factory's comprehensive kits, Sports offered performance-per-pound no manufacturer could approach; a well-built car embarrassed anything this side of a racing paddock. The model also carries a footnote of consequence: McLaren purchased Ultimas as development mules for the F1 programme, using them to test drivetrain concepts — approval of a kind money cannot buy. The Sport set the stage for the GTR's record-hunting decade; the ingredients were now all present.