Ultima's story begins in 1983 when engineering maestro, Lee Noble (who would go on to start Noble Automotive), founded Noble Motorsport and designed the Ultima Mk1 race car, inspired by the 'Group C' cars of the time.

Launched in 1999, the Ultima GTR was dubbed the ‘quickest accelerating and decelerating supercar of all time’, with official performance records that humbled every mainstream car on the planet bar none - Bugatti Veyron, Ferrari Enzo and McLaren F1; none could match the GTR’s plethora of world speed acceleration and deceleration records, and when independently timed around the Top Gear test track, was found to be a blistering 6.2 seconds per-lap faster than the £450,000 Ferrari Enzo and four seconds per-lap faster than the £1,500,000 Bugatti Veyron SS.

Now universally appreciated as a true supercar, not much can come close to the value for money these exceptional vehicles offer in today’s market.

What makes this particular example rather special is that, although offic...