{"id":2067410,"date":"2026-07-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2067410"},"modified":"2026-07-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:00:00","slug":"this-sc01-is-a-chinese-built-lightweight-sports-car-arriving-later-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2067410","title":{"rendered":"This SC01 is a Chinese-built lightweight sports car arriving later this year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Big news in the not-very-big world of small electric sports cars. A British start-up by the name of the Small Sports Car Company (SSCC) has announced that it is bringing a Chinese-designed and -built lightweight electric sports car to the UK later this year.<\/p>\n

Called the SC01, it\u2019s already on sale in its homeland where it goes by the not-very-catchy name JMEV 01, but the tie-up with SSCC means we\u2019ll see it soon on our shores too. And you thought it was just an army of SUVs China was building over here\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Anyway, some numbers. We\u2019re told combined output is 429bhp from two electric motors, and it\u2019ll see off the 0-62mph sprint in circa 2.9 seconds. Range stands at 311 miles from a 60kWh battery \u2013 although that\u2019s on China\u2019s more generous CLTC test cycle.<\/p>\n

Oh, and there\u2019s also the small matter (quite literally) of its 1,365kg kerbweight \u2013 around 500kg less than the MG Cyberster<\/a>. We\u2019re told it gets mid-engined sports car proportions, a super lightweight body built around a steel spaceframe chassis, and double wishbone suspension to help it deal with our less than polished roads.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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All sounds very promising to us, and much welcome in a world that has quickly tired of overpowered and unattainable hypercars. Is the lightweight electric sports car market \u2013 which the MG Cyberster has pretty much had to itself \u2013 finally<\/em> about to hot up?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mind you, the SC01 isn\u2019t going to have it easy. It\u2019s no secret that there\u2019s an Alpine A110 EV<\/a> on the way, and there\u2019s also the British-built Longbow Speedster (and Roadster)<\/a> plus Caterham Project V<\/a> to contend with. But if the SC01 can beat all of those to market\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Feng Xiaotong, creator of the SC01, said: \u201cMy ambition is to create the kind of sports car that enthusiasts will fall in love with. I am myself such an enthusiast, and grew up admiring the great British pioneers who believed that driving should be about lightness, simplicity and the connection between driver and machine. The SC01 is my tribute to that philosophy.\u201d<\/p>\n

No price has been given yet, but back home it costs from \u00a5229,800 (about a not-very-expensive \u00a325,000). First examples of the SC01 will arrive on British soil later this year, with right-hand drive production cars delivered from April 2027.<\/p>\n

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Big news in the not-very-big world of small electric sports cars. A British start-up by the name of the Small Sports Car Company (SSCC) has announced that it is bringing a Chinese-designed and -built lightweight electric sports car to the UK later this year. Called the SC01, it\u2019s already on sale in its homeland where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,237],"class_list":["post-2067410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-topgear-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2067410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2067410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2067410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2067410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}