the SS1's chassis is heavily based on the Lotus Elan's. Keeping with the SS1's borrow-from-many design attitude, its engines were supplied by outside manufacturers, as Reliant was not producing ...

Yet Reliant revived the name in the eighties with the Scimitar SS1. It first arrived in 1984, with a spaceframe chassis, full independent suspension and a wedge-shaped roadster body. With styling ...

With the low-slung chassis and the engine set farther back, the cars look more modern than their contemporaries. Before it became Jaguar, Swallow Coachbuilding Co. produced SS1 cars, including the ...

But with no in-house model to act as donor for the ‘trad’ rear-driver, Rover got creative and struck a deal with Reliant. The result was PR2, based on the chassis of the Scimitar SS1 but ...