Lister Cars [SEP] named after
Lister Motor Company
The Lister Motor Company Ltd. is a British sports car manufacturer founded by Brian Lister in 1954 in Cambridge, England, which became known for its involvement in motorsport. Sold in 1986, Laurence Pearce produced variants of the Jaguar XJS before producing a bespoke sports car, the Lister Storm. In 2013, Lister Cars was acquired by Lawrence Whittaker's company Warrantywise. Production of the original sports car restarted in 2014 and ten continuation Lister Jaguar Knobblys were built to celebrate Lister’s 60th Anniversary. In 2016, the
hence, Mercedes McLaren SLR Stirling Moss, which has a top speed of with wind deflectors instead of a windscreen.
In July 2016 Lister Cars unveiled a £1 million full magnesium bodied Lister Knobbly named in honour of Stirling Moss. The car is an exact continuation of the Lister Cars Stirling Moss raced in the 1950s.
In 2016, in an academic paper that reported a mathematical modeling study that assessed the relative influence of driver and machine, Moss was ranked the 29th best Formula One driver of all time.