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Ultima Sports 1998

Ultima Sports Ltd was founded by Ted Marlow in 1997, based at Hinckley in Leicestershire. Ultima manufactures the components to construct cars derived as road going versions, from the Noble Motorsport Ltd originated Ultima racing cars, which were designed by Lee Noble who is known for the cars produced by Noble Automotive Ltd.
All models in the Ultima range have always been primarily supplied in component form with Ultima producing the parts required for an owner/builder to construct the car themselves. However some european delivered cars have been built by Ultima at their factory.

Ultima Sports 1998

The preferred engine supplier for Ultima is currently American Speed, a company who specialise in re-engineering Chevrolet V8s for increased performance. It was with a 640 hp (480 kW) version of the Chevrolet small block V8 built by American Speed, that Richard Marlow was able to set a number of performance records in an Ultima GTR during 2005, this combination now being dubbed the Ultima GTR640.
In 2006 Ultima beat their own 0-100 mph-0 record set in the GTR640 with the GTR720, again using an American Speed SBC engine but now with 720 hp (540 kW). The new record shaved 0.4 seconds off the time completing the 0-100-0 dash in 9.4 seconds, a new world record for a production road car with street legal tyres and exhaust.