The Lister Storm combined a four-seat grand touring body with a Jaguar-derived 7.0-litre V12, then moved from road-car development into international GT racing. Motor Sport Magazine reports that the road car reached 208 mph and that only four road examples were built; those figures are the magazine’s claims, not totals or test results independently confirmed by Lister’s current model page.
What made the Lister Storm unusual?
The Storm was conceived as a road-going supercar in the early 1990s, with competition close behind: Lister’s own history describes a road car developed with an immediate path into racing. Its unusual combination was a four-seat GT layout and a 7.0-litre Jaguar-derived V12. That made it a different proposition from a conventional two-seat exotic, even before its racing career began.
The road car’s reported speed and tiny production run add to its appeal, but both need careful wording. Motor Sport Magazine describes the Storm as a four-seat GT, reports a top speed of 208 mph, and says four road cars were built. Lister’s current page provides its own account of the model and racing development but does not independently verify either the road-car production total or that speed figure.
Was the Lister Storm the fastest four-seat car?
Motor Sport Magazine’s 2021 account calls the Storm the fastest four-seater of its time and reports a 208 mph top speed for the road car. It is reasonable to describe the Storm as reported or described as the fastest four-seat GT of its era, rather than state an uncontested record: the available sources do not provide a consistent comparison with rival cars or establish whether their figures were claimed or independently tested.
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The 208 mph figure belongs to the road car as reported by the magazine; it should not be presented as a speed independently tested for this article or transferred to every racing Storm. Nor does the FIA homologation record establish a top speed: it documents the competition car’s GT homologation, not a road-car performance test.
How many Lister Storm road cars were made?
Motor Sport Magazine reports that only four road cars were built. This is a specialist publication’s production-count claim, not a total verified by an official Lister production register in the available manufacturer material. Keep the figure specific to road cars: it does not mean that only four Storms existed once competition cars are included.
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What engine did the Lister Storm have?
Lister identifies a 7.0-litre Jaguar-derived V12 at the heart of the racing Storm. The manufacturer describes the race engine as mounted in a front-mid configuration. The 7.0-litre engine is central to the Storm story, but road and racing examples should not be treated as having identical specifications: Lister notes that the competition car changed as it developed.
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Lister’s model history traces the Storm from its early-1990s road-car development into competition, including at Le Mans. The race car evolved through revisions to aerodynamics, suspension geometry and drivetrain, so its configuration was not simply a fixed copy of the road-going GT.
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The FIA Historic Database records the Storm under GT homologation number 8, dated April 2, 1999, with homologation ending January 1, 2007. The record lists extensions concerning suspension, transmission and engine. These dates mark the period recorded for GT homologation; they are not the car’s launch date or proof of when it first raced.
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Sources
- Lister’s Storm history and race-car overview
- FIA Historic Database: Lister Storm homologation record
- Motor Sport Magazine, “Lister Storm GT: Race car buying guide,” February 3, 2021
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