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Lister Has Been Resurrected (And It Needs Your Money)

Remember Lister?

In the recent past, you could drive the wedge-shaped Lister Storm in earlier incarnations of the Gran Turismo video game franchise. If you were fairly rich and wanted to go racing, you could even buy one for yourself and head out on track with other rich gentleman.

But, since the Storm was introduced in 1993, a new model wearing the Lister marque has not seen the light of day.

That is until last week when Lister said they were developing a new V12-engined hypercar that will cost – wait for it – $3.6 million CAD.

Yeah, back up the salt truck right here, please.

Lister Hypercar Concept. Click image to enlarge

AutoExpress, who had an exclusive article on the new car, said this:

Lawrence Whittaker, managing director of Lister Cars, exclusively told Auto Express that he plans to take on the Ferrari LaFerrari, McLaren P1, Pagani Huayra and Koenigsegg Agera models with a 7.8-litre, supercharged V12 which will put out 1,000 bhp and be capable of 250 mph.

To his credit, Whittaker has brought back the infamously pretty 1950s-era Lister “Knobbly” Jaguar to critical acclaim. The nine Knobbly recreations that have been built so far have garnered incredible interest and helped raise money and increased awareness in the reborn marque.

However, there is one sentence in the article on AutoExpress that truly explains the situation.

“The company is currently seeking investors to support the project.”

Unless a nutter equally as crazy as Whittaker is willing to part with his cash, consider this project as dead as salt cod.