There's an automatic temptation, when writing about cars like this, to invoke the "zombie apocalypse" cliche. It's natural: The Ariel Nomad, with its armadillo profile, looks like the creation of a ...
On paper, a car like the Ariel Nomad makes absolutely no sense. It’s an off-roader powered by a Honda engine without any bodywork and it lacks even the most basic of amenities. Why, for something that ...
Remember the Ariel Atom? This is its crazy, backwoods, dirt-driving cousin, the Nomad. It weighs 1,680 pounds and has a rear-mid-mounted 230-hp transverse four spinning grippity Geolander tires. Yes, ...
Simon Saunders, director of Ariel, told Autocar that back when the company was only making the road-focused Atom, an American called the company asking for an Atom with “about three feet” of ...
The basis for all of Ariel’s cars is to make them light and fast. While going fast isn’t a problem for electric vehicles, being light can be a struggle. But with the Ariel E-Nomad concept, the company ...
Top Gear has produced plenty of memes for the automobile-loving TV watcher, but few had the reach and recognition of Jeremy Clarkson’s face inflating behind the wheel of an Ariel Atom. The ...