Behold the return of another classic British carmaker. Under new ownership Bentley, Rolls-Royce, Jaguar Land Rover and Aston Martin have all enjoyed a 21st-century renaissance. Now it is the turn of Lister, a throwback to the 1950s and the days of Stirling Moss, to throttle up and talk about a £2.5 million hybrid hypercar, a re-imagined Lister Storm for the next decade — and built just outside Blackburn.
But not quite yet. Lister is a British marque for the cognoscenti. Sixty years ago it rivalled the greatest automotive names on the circuit. Its relationship with Jaguar created the race-winning Lister Knobbly — so nicknamed for its bulbous curves — running on a D-Type engine.
Six decades on, the Jaguar link has been rekindled. The new…