Considering that it’s such a specialised, low-volume car, the M600’s interior is, by and large, an impressive achievement. It lacks the same design panache, or the luxurious smell, as the inside of a Ferrari, but it’s a well thought out cabin all the same.
The dash layout is clean, clear and concise. The instruments look good and are genuinely easy to read. Even the minor controls feel polished in their operation and sit logically just in front of the gearlever, alongside the M600’s cheekiest feature: the cover for its traction control button, pinched from a Tornado fighter jet.
Space is also unusually good for a mid-engined supercar. There’s a decent-sized boot in the nose and enough head room inside to accommodate a 6ft-plus driver wearing a crash helmet. The seat reclines far enough manually to suit all but the ridiculously tall.
Ideally we’d like the pedals to be located further away in the driver’s footwell relative to where the adjustable steering wheel sits. Noble claims, however, that each M600 will be designed to suit its owner, including the position of the pedal box. It’s a work in progress, in other words.
Whether the M600 will appeal sufficiently to pinch sales from the new McLaren MP4-12C, Ferrari 458 Italia or forthcoming Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera is unknown. In many ways the market is its own guide with a car as rare and unusual as this.
What’s not in doubt is the quality of its construction, the way it performs, the way it drives generally or Noble’s commitment to aftersales service, most of which will be carried out at a new, bigger premises near Leicester and via a specialised dealer network throughout Europe. It’ll be a bold customer who writes a £200k cheque for an M600, but not necessarily a stupid one. Time will tell.
