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<\/a><\/p>\nIt\u2019s based on the AB\/Aries Arion, a full-bodied kit, obviously, and one we featured in TKC Mag a year or so back. We loved it, by the way. Owned by Gary \u2018The Rocking Rev\u2019 Gotham at the time, it was the first road-going Arion. Gary can regularly be seen around his Wiltshire home – and well beyond – enjoying his Arion<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the new arrival uses the Arion\u2019s spaceframe chassis, which cunningly means that the two bodies are interchangeable. As Phil Edwards told me: \u201cAero-racecar on Saturday, hillclimb car on a Sunday – or even use it for a trip to the beach or pub.\u201d<\/p>\n
Prices, and even the car\u2019s name, are yet to be revealed. There\u2019s been a veil of secrecy surrounding the car, which has been built behind closed doors, meaning only Phil and Andy (and Nick at AB) and a couple of other people even knew of its existence, let alone seen it.<\/p>\n However, we do know that it can accommodate a full windscreen or a \u2018double-bubble\u2019 aeroscreen and has been built with taller drivers in mind (up to 6ft 8ins Phil reckons) and has a wide-body meaning welcome extra space in the cockpit for, ahem, larger drivers.<\/p>\n The other really good thing is that a variety of engines can be used. Usual suspects such as Ford EcoBoost, Duratec and Zetec are obvious candidates while how about Honda S2000 and interestingly the new Peugeot 1.6 Ti-DCT (as sold by Power Torque Engineering in the UK)?<\/p>\n We\u2019ll be bringing you the EXCLUSIVE first test of the new car and I\u2019m really looking forward to having a go in it.<\/p>\n One thing is for sure and guaranteed, the build quality, general packaging and its capabilities will be excellent given the skills of the blokes involved.<\/p>\n More from www.ariesmotorsport.com<\/a>or www.abperformance.co.uk<\/a>\u00a0or perhaps given how new this is visit the ARIES page on Facebook ENDS.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" EXCLUSIVE EXCLUSIVE EXCLUSIVE EXCLUSIVE Exciting new arrival from our mates Phil Edwards (Aries Motorsport) and Andy Bates (AB Performance), which is full of innovation and […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>