I used to be apprehensive I wasn’t going to love the Analogue Automotive Supersport, so I left it so long as potential at this 12 months’s large ‘Dealing with Day’ competitors at Cadwell Park.

The S1 Lotus Elise in its unique kind is fairly good, quirks and all, and Analogue’s £100,000 restomod was in all probability unnecessarily exhausting work and a bit tarry, so I used to be in no rush to attempt it out.

It seems my instinct was fallacious. Not spectacularly fallacious, as I nonetheless assume a rampant S1 Elise in good nick is an distinctive factor on the street and simply as enjoyable whether or not you need to slog alongside or slam the factor down as exhausting as you’ll be able to. However whenever you’re actually within the temper or, higher but, have a racetrack shut at hand, the Supersport is about as candy to drive because it will get.

The automobile is amazingly direct and uncooked, however not tiresome to flat out drive. It simply flows as an extension of your self, with loads of grip however with out feeling locked into the monitor floor.

And that revamped Okay-series engine – producing 210bhp at 7,250rpm – is an absolute monster.

Truthful play to analog, as a result of an S1 restmod is not the simplest promote on paper, however the actuality of driving one actually is one thing you may always remember.