Lister 'Knobbly' review: a brand new Fifties racing car that you can drive on the road

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f I were to design my perfect recreational sports car, it would be an open two-seater, with a big, naturally-aspirated engine at one end and the driven wheels at the other. It would be low and narrow enough to thread through the lanes with confidence. It would have a great deal of power, certainly more than 300bhp but, even more importantly, as little weight as possible so it tipped the scales at well under a tonne.

And if it were British and beautiful, so much the better.

Inadvertently, I appear to have designed a Lister-Jaguar, and only just a smidgeon over 60 years late. For it was cars just like that you see here which became the fastest, most feared sports cars on the British domestic racing...