Liverpool-based
Briggs Automotive Co (BAC) showcased its new single-seater supercar — the Mono — at last month’s
Monterey Car Week 2023. BAC says the Mono has been designed, engineered and developed to offer a new type of high-performance driving experience, with a car that is intended to form the nucleus of the brand’s core product offering, as the company maintains its ‘global expansion momentum’.
Mike Flewitt, BAC’s chairman, said: “Launching the new Mono supercar at Monterey Car Week perfectly encapsulates the trajectory of BAC. Not only is this the first time the company has been in an official capacity at
Monterey Car Week, but we have chosen this iconic setting to show to the world our latest high-performance single-seater creation; a development that forms the basis of BAC’s core product offering as it continues to expand around the world. Mono places driver experience at the forefront, regardless of if that experience is on the road or the track.”
Neill Briggs, BAC’s co-founder and head of product development, said: “Mono is an authentic BAC supercar. It delivers the typical, albeit not easily achievable, attributes that are part of the BAC DNA — like high-performance, lightweight engineering, dynamic chassis, optimised suspension and an emotional design.
“Mono also creates a connection to a new type of BAC driving experience, one that can seamlessly take to the road as easily as it can encounter the demands of on-track driving. In many ways, this new supercar is a homage to the original BAC Concept that we established over a decade ago, proving its fundamental longevity. The new Mono is a single-seater tour-de-force that has been engineered for balance but developed for extremes.”
At the heart of the new Mono is a naturally aspirated 2.5-litre powertrain optimised to deliver ‘the perfect amount of power and torque’ for a high-performance car that is agile and dynamic, both on-road and on-track. The engine revs to 8,000rev/min, develops 311bhp, 231lb ft of torque, giving a power-to-weight ratio of 546bhp-per-tonne (the car weighs just 570kg) and a 0-60mph time of 2.7sec via a six-speed motorsport-derived sequential transmission. Production of the new Mono supercar has already commenced at BAC’s headquarters in Liverpool, with orders already placed from customers worldwide.