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THE CKC TEAM Editor Adam Wilkins Roving Reporter Ian Stent Welcome PICK UP Technical Editor John Dickens e’re so familiar with the sevenesque form works well in a kit car. THE NEXT ISSUE that it was a surprise, when creating this But that doesn’t erode the FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER Columnists Gary Axon month’s cover, that the new West eld Sport signi cance of West eld now Richard Heseltine 250 looked unusually fresh. Why should it, adopting the Ecoboost. e Contributors Jeroen Booij, when to all intents and purposes it looks just like any other gures speak for themselves, James Horsley, Ed Morton, Chris WWest eld from the last decade or more? with 252bhp and 366lb ft making themselves Pickering, Peter Rosenthal, Martin Scott Perhaps, I wondered, it’s because we haven’t had a known... putting its Ford engine forebears in the
Running Reporters Stuart ruce ones, Seven-style car on the cover for a while. Cries from readers shade. West eld has even found a way to keep the Jason Burrage, John Clements, Paul of there being too many Sevens (and Cobras) have made car a ordable. It’s a range-topper, so ‘a ordable’ is a Curran, Trevor Crout, Rob Davenhall, us sensitive to over-doing them. Even I was surpised that relative term, but you get the idea. Andy Green, Chris Haysom, Ian Jackson, the last time we had a sevenesque roadster on the cover A few months before that electric West eld, the cover Vivienne Lodge, Ross Maynard, was well over two years ago. It was another West eld, but car was that Mega S2000, a car whose impression is still Ed Morton, Jon Page rather a di erent one being electric powered. felt in this o ce. Stent puts the new car into that context Race Diarists Ian Chapman, Two years ago, that looked like the future – and it in his rst drive in this issue. John Pick, Alisdair Suttie, still does. e new Sport 250 is very much now, though. Jack Walton Its Ford Ecoboost engine is the latest in a line of Blue Oval four-pots that have been the staple of kit car power. Graphic Designer Sarah Scrimshaw ADAM WILKINS Sidevalve, Cross ow, Pinto, Zetec, Duratec... and now E: [email protected] Editor Ecoboost have always been popular amongst specialist cars. Proof Reader Andy Bliss It’s not the rst Ecoboost powered kit car, of course. @AdamWilkins_ e Vortex V2 has already shown us that the package Advertising Manager Karen O’Riordan [email protected] T: 0330 1234 885. E: [email protected]
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