Since 2000, Ariel Atom has been the ultimate expression for simplifying and adding lightness. The inflexible Atom has always been designed primarily around the driving experience, sacrificing all sorts of comfort to create a lightweight mid-engined car that looks more like a kart than any other road or racing car produced in the latter half. century. Times have changed, however, and Atom has been forced to change with them. The result is the Atom 4, a new approach to the core concept that brings almost a decade of improvement to a car that hasn’t been updated since 2008. How can a car built around simplicity handle a decade of steps in the modern world?
This is the question that YouTube’s SavageGeese channel brought to Ariel’s North American plant in Virginia. As the previous owner of an Atom 3S, the reviewer’s first impressions are all the visible improvements: simplified aerodynamics, a modern digital panel and a wider and more comfortable interior. On the road, however, the changes have become more significant. While the Atom 3S seemed a little incomplete in speed, it describes the 4 as easier to drive and more confident in a straight line, braking and cornering.
These improvements also contribute to a much smoother driving experience at track speeds. Being more comfortable in speed, the reviewer notes that the Atom 4 can be pushed much further by the average driver without the fear that comes with the more tremulous Atom 3S taking turns in braking and in the cornering entry.
In his view, the Atom 4 is a much better car than the Atom 3S. However, the aim of the Atom was never to be a good car, but to build a lightweight analog experience that can communicate everything wonderful about the simple performance cars of the past. The 4 is a faster, more comfortable and easier to drive Atom than the 3S it replaces, but while this is still the heaviest car on the road, making a car like the Ariel Atom better means losing some of its appeal. of a car built around an unshakable vision.
Still, this is a 320 horsepower open-wheel road car with a central engine that comes with a manual transmission and a completely analog philosophy connecting you to the road more directly than anything else in its price segment. . If you are looking for simplicity and lightness, nothing else in a dealership today is simpler or lighter.
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