Earlier today I wrote about the latest version of the Ariel Atom, and I have to say the one thing I wasn’t expecting to be that impressed about on the car was its instrument cluster. But, as usual, I was wrong! The new Atom 4 has a fantastic instrument cluster, an all LCD one that’s not hampered with needless and…

If you’re looking for a car that can get to 60 MPH as fast as a McLaren P1 but without all that annoying “bodywork” and for about 1/25th the price, boy are you in luck, because Ariel just announced the Atom 4, which uses the engine from the Honda Civic Type R. That engine allows the gloriously skeletal car to go from…

Hello, out there. Do you like having things such as money, stability, or all of your limbs attached to your body? This car is not for you.

Ariel built a fan car! This is not a car powered by fans, this is a car that uses fans to suck the car to the ground. It’s an old trick borrowed from 1960s Texan race cars and the banned Brabham F1 car from the ‘70s.

The spindly Ariel Nomad wasn’t built to be the track-scalping weapon that the other Ariel Atom models are. It was meant for off-roading. For dirt and grass and gravel. But that doesn’t mean it still isn’t fun as hell to thrash about on some tarmac.

Simon Saunders, boss-man overlooking the ridiculous Ariel family of street-legal tubular performance machines including the Atom and Nomad, has dropped some hints about future models including luxury limousines, an electric Atom and possibly borrowing the hybrid heart of the new Acura NSX when the time is right.

The result is not what you might expect.

The Ariel Atom is a super-lightweight, scaffolding-constructed, 365-horsepower turbocharged animal. I am generously described as “bookish,” and my track experience is pretty limited. But somebody decided it was a great idea to mash the two of us together, and now I think I’m in love.

I’ll tell you exactly.

It looks beastly in a good way, of course. The way that you’d want a 1650 lb, ~500HP Ariel Atom-based bonkerscar to look. And sound, and go. Sure, we were skeptical at first, but it looks like Rezvani made good on his promise to make a pretty dramatic car.

This is life when your company car is an Ariel Atom and your best friend Bronx is down for an afternoon ride.

You have an Ariel Atom. You have studded snow tires. You have a frozen lake. You have a snowmobile. What do you do? Drag race. Of course.

BMW drivers parking like asshats is nothing new. But BMW drivers parking in the middle of the damn road makes for a perfect "Oh Shit!" storm for a rider and his Ariel Atom cohort.

If there's one car that wasn't designed with English summer rain in mind, it's the 350 horsepower Ariel Atom 3.5R. Then again, if you happen to have one on a rainy day, what can you do?

The cops in Dubai might have Bugatti Veyrons, McLarens, and random assorted Lamborghinis and Bentleys. But they have nothing on the Avon and Somerset Constabulary, who can now lay claim to the title of nuttiest police vehicle in the world. Because they just got an Ariel Atom 3.5R.

The Ariel Atom 3.5R's world premier will be at Goodwood during the Festival of Speed next month, but guess what! Somehow, the guys managed to find an empty bit of runway for an early test...

The Ariel Atom is a continuously evolving product, and following the V8 and the Mugen versions is this, the limited-edition Atom 3.5R with more power, an improved chassis and a sequential paddle-shift gearbox that can change gears faster than physics would suggest.