After eight long years of development behind closed doors, the wraps have come off the world’s latest supercar contender: the Keating Supercar. To be built here in the UK, the car is the culmination of a long-held dream by engineer Anthony Keating to build a supercar that possesses scintillating performance but is also easy to own.

CAD drawings for the car were first created eight years ago and a company in the Philippines translated these into the first styling buck and moulds. While this was going on, back in the UK the mechanicals were finalised and tested beneath the bodywork of an Ultima.

A second prototype arrived in 2003, with a carbonfibre chassis tub and shell and a twin-turbocharged version of a 6-litre V8 built by Nelson Race Engines in the US.