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Origins
Westfield built its name on Lotus Seven-style kits, and the SEight of 1991 was the concept taken gleefully too far: Rover's all-aluminium 3.9-litre V8 in a car weighing around 650 kilograms, yielding acceleration that embarrassed contemporary Ferraris for the price of a family hatchback. The wide-bodied chassis absorbed the power better than physics suggested it should, and the SEight became the definitive 'mad' British kit car of its decade — reviewed with delighted terror by every magazine, bought by drivers who considered traction a philosophical position. Racing versions and ever-larger engines followed in the marque's long catalogue. The SEight endures as pure thesis statement: minimal mass plus maximal torque equals joy, arithmetic Westfield performed louder than anyone.
1991 Westfield SEight · Idiotcountry (talk) · CC BY-SA 3.0
