2021 BAC Mono

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The new BAC Mono has been unveiled./

BAC Mono

Briggs Automotive Company (BAC) has officially launched the new BAC Mono - a higher-performance, lighter and more advanced new generation of the single-seater supercar that's fully road legal across continental Europe and around the world.

Sporting the stunning new generation of Mono design DNA first seen on the BAC Mono R, the newcomer epitomises how form enhances function with reductions in visual mass across the body, less frontal area and a lower height creating a sleeker, more organic overall appearance.

For the first time, Mono meets the latest stringent EU6D emissions and drive-by noise regulations to make it ready for the streets of Europe. Its 2.3-litre, four-cylinder turbocharged engine is 27bhp more powerful than its predecessor - at 332bhp - and offers in excess of an incredible 400Nm of torque.

The One of a Kind supercar weighs just 570kg despite numerous additions under the skin in line with European regulations, thanks to the inclusion of a number of technological feats. The likes of BAC's graphene R&D projects from the Mono R, additive manufacturing and a ground-breaking generative-design wheel project with software partner Autodesk have helped to reduce the weight over the first-generation model.

Staggering power of 332bhp and a 570kg kerb weight add up to a truly remarkable power-to-weight ratio of 582bhp-per-tonne - 57bhp-per-tonne higher than the original Mono's figure. Vehicle dynamic enhancements mean the iconic single-seater continues to offer a totally unparalleled, scintillating driving experience.

BAC Mono (2021)

The striking new look of BAC Mono is centred around the value of form enhancing function - visual designs created in line with Mono offering the purest...

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Doug reviewed a 2015 model a few months back. He was highly impressed.

 

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New BAC Mono arrives with 330bhp and refreshed looks

Spruced-up single-seater gains a turbocharger for a subtle power boost and 30% more torque

BAC has revealed a lighter, much faster new-look version of its single-seat Mono supercar, which adopts turbo power for the first time as a way of meeting forthcoming emissions regulations and maintaining compliance in its 40 export markets across the world. Priced at £165,950, the car is being launched this week.

It is powered by a Mountune-developed, 2.3-litre Ford four-cylinder engine developing 330bhp, a boost of 25bhp over the outgoing car’s normally aspirated version of the same unit. However the Mono’s horsepower boost is dwarfed by a torque increase of nearly 30%: the new turbo engine’s output rises from 229lb ft to “over” 295lb ft lb. Company bosses Neil and Ian Briggs estimate that their new car should be around four seconds a lap faster than the original on the Silverstone grand prix circuit. Official 0-60mph time is 2.7seconds, with a top speed of 170mph.

The new Mono weighs just 570kg at the kerb, uses a new iteration of BAC’s traditional steel space frame chassis, and is clad with graphene enhanced carbon fibre panels that allow material to be thinner (and thus lighter) for the same strength. The styling closely follows the new look of the special edition Mono R — less that car’s controversial F3-style ram-air intake behind the driver’s which isn’t needed because of the engine’s new forced induction system — with every panel redesigned to reduce visual mass, lower overall height and reduce frontal area, to improve aero performance.

New BAC Mono arrives with 330bhp and refreshed looks | Autocar

Spruced-up single-seater gains a turbocharger for a subtle power boost and 30% more torque

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The new BAC Mono has been unveiled./

BAC Mono


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The BAC In 'BAC Mono' Stands For 'Barely Any Changes'

The new Mono features a turbocharged Ford-based 2.3-liter engine co-developed with Mountune which produces 295 lb-ft of torque and 332 horsepower, up 27 from the old naturally aspirated mill. Specially designed for the BAC, the new engine features a dry-sump system to help lower the car’s center of gravity.

The company says it moved to turbocharged power as a way to keep the car emissions legal, while passing the new EU drive-by-noise legislation. It’s not only more powerful, but it’s still totally road legal.

The BAC In 'BAC Mono' Stands For 'Barely Any Changes' - Jalopnik

BAC first teased the idea of a new car back in June of last year, but this new car is pretty much the same as the old car. Well, it only looks the same. According to the people who build the thing, this new Mono shares nothing with its predecessor except a single-seat open-cockpit layout and a...

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AutoTopNL POV test drive of the 2018 Mono

 

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AutoTopNL review of the 2018 Mono

 

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Holy heck, the BAC Mono is getting a hydrogen powertrain

One of TG’s favourite cars is getting a new powertrain: behold the BAC Mono FCEV

Unless TopGear.com has comically misunderstood the missive released by Briggs Automotive Company (BAC), one of our very favourite niche supercars is getting a hydrogen powertrain.

That, or BAC is working on an excellent device to make your voice squeaky. On balance, it’s probably the former.

Yes folks, news has reached us today that BAC is joining up with Viritech to develop a new hydrogen powertrain for the Mono. Well, it’s a ‘feasibility study’ to assess hydrogen for ‘niche vehicle applications’, and you don’t get more niche than a single-seat supercar with no roof or windscreen.

We’re promised the incoming Mono ‘FCEV’ will still be mind-bendingly excellent to drive, with BAC’s “principles of uncompromising performance and driver experience”. Alongside experimenting with lightweight materials like Graphene and Niobium, BAC says the hydrogen FCEV will “preserve the delicate balance that weight plays in a vehicle’s driving dynamics”.

BAC founder and product development director Neill Briggs said: “Alternative fuels, along with lightweight construction methods, reduces vehicle emissions considerably without compromising driver engagement, something we are committed to preserving at BAC.”

Holy heck, the BAC Mono is getting a hydrogen powertrain

One of TG’s favourite cars is getting a new powertrain: behold the BAC Mono FCEV

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BAC Mono to become hydrogen fuel cell sports car

UK sports car manufacturer partners with MIRA-based Viritech to create a Mono FCEV single-seater

Liverpool-based sports car manufacturer BAC has partnered with engineering outfit Viritech to develop a hydrogen fuel cell (FCEV) version of its Mono sports car.

Viritech, which is developing a 1100bhp FCEV supercar at the MIRA technology park, has been awarded funding via the Niche Vehicle Network Feasibility Study Grant and will use it to investigate the feasibility of powering low-volume cars with hydrogen.

BAC is supporting the project by providing the Mono as a basis for the programme. The final product, although no longer powered by a 330bhp naturally aspirated 2.5-litre four-cylinder engine, will continue "to be led by BAC’s principles of uncompromising performance and driver experience".

BAC says its partnership with Viritech is in line with a push to reduce its emissions output by 2030. The company went 'climate positive' in 2019 thanks to its carbon offsetting programme and has previously expressed a keen interest in the use of synthetic fuels as well as efficiency-boosting lightweight construction materials, including graphene and niobium.

BAC Mono to become hydrogen fuel cell sports car | Autocar

UK sports car manufacturer partners with MIRA-based Viritech to create a Mono FCEV single-seater

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The hydrogen BAC e-Mono lapped Silverstone quicker than the petrol version

First stats on BAC and Viritech’s hydrogen single-seater concept are out, and it’s FAST

BAC, purveyors of the superlative and literally singular Mono supercar, set out to answer the most critical issue facing our changing automotive landscape: can new tech make shiny thing really fast?

Short answer? Yes. Yes it can. The company’s hydrogen-powered e-Mono concept digitally lapped Silverstone a full two seconds quicker than the lighter, combustion-engined version. Pack your bags and jump onboard, folks – next stop, The Future.

The e-Mono is a feasibility study in collaboration with Viritech who specialise in building hydrogen powertrains. BAC didn’t want to just shoehorn in a massive battery and say ‘ta-dah’, but instead make sure the Mono’s fundamentals weren’t messed around with.

“The joy of a track-focused supercar is its agility and responsiveness through corners,” BAC said. And so both it and Viritech set out to create a zero-emission supercar concept “that stayed true to BAC’s founding principle of making the world’s best driving car”. Crucially, the drivetrain had to fit inside the Mono’s existing chassis and body.

So, the battery pack was fitted as far back under the (single) seat as possible, acting as a structural component to reduce the chassis footprint. The fuel cell was slotted in atop the battery, and the compressor hidden inside the Mono R’s air intake pod.

To that, a pair of ‘tiny’ 3kg motors were put on each front wheel – making it an all-wheel-drive Mono – with peak power sitting at a heady 371bhp. The whole concept weighs 665kg which of course is heavier than a regular Mono but still a featherweight in the grand scheme of life.

The hydrogen BAC e-Mono lapped Silverstone quicker than the petrol version

First stats on BAC and Viritech’s hydrogen single-seater concept are out, and it’s FAST

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BAC Mono review

WHAT'S THE VERDICT?

“As practical as a pair of lead water wings, but one of the most entertaining cars ever built”

It’s silly money and hard to justify on paper. £160,000 (the Mono R, limited to just 40 cars, is an even more terrifying £235,000) for a car with no windscreen, powered by a humble four cylinder engine? Wrong way to look at it. The Mono is all about the experience. Being in it, driving it, seeing it, touching it – no other lightweight is remotely as well executed and finished as this. If McLaren were to build a lightweight road-going single seater, this could be it.

At Dunsfold the original version was as fast as a LaFerrari. BAC claims the uprated R did a 1m 32.96s lap of the Red Bull Ring – six seconds faster than a LaFerrari. But it’s the experience of driving it, rather than the outright speed that stays with you. Being sat square in the middle of the car, feeling all the components and elements working harmoniously, the sense of solidity that surrounds you. If you want something that’s focused on driving to the exception of everything else – and yet rewards on so many levels – look no further.

BAC Mono Review 2023 | Top Gear

As practical as a pair of lead water wings, but one of the most entertaining cars ever built

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Next BAC Mono will move to turbo Ford engine

Liverpool-based lightweight specialist adopts emissions-friendly engine and lightweight frame

Briggs Automotive Company is preparing to open a fresh chapter in its history in 2023 by launching a new-generation version of its Mono single-seater sports car with an even lighter chassis frame and an emissions-friendly turbocharged engine.

The BAC Mono F - so called because F stands for forced induction - will open up new export markets for BAC, and also keep the Mono emissions-compliant in those in which it is already established. Switching from the Mountune-built 2.5-litre atmospheric engine of the current Mono to a new specially-tuned 2.3-litre Ford Ecoboost engine will allow the Mono to pass emissions regulations and make it saleable across all of North America, as well as in key markets in other territories.

Revealed in technical specification reference documents already live on the company’s website (bac-mono.com), the turbocharged engine should make a peak 332bhp for the car (up from the 302bhp of the current Mono), but also in excess of 295lb ft of torque (the latter a boost of some 30 per cent).

Next BAC Mono will move to turbo Ford engine | Autocar

Liverpool-based lightweight specialist adopts emissions-friendly engine and lightweight frame

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This is the 150th BAC Mono ever built: a 342bhp Mono R

And this very special milestone comes in a ‘sci-fi-inspired’ livery. Sci-fi speed, don’t forget

The Briggs Automotive Company, established by brothers Neill and Ian Briggs in 2009, has this week reached a special milestone via this 555kg single-seat masterstroke. You’re looking at only the 150th BAC Mono ever built.

And Mono #150 is also the 29th Mono R, which is of course the harder, faster, sharper and more powerful version of a car that was lacking in precisely none of those things. So not only is it vanishingly rare, it’s also quite exceptional to steer.

“It is fitting that Mono #150 is an R,” said Neill, “which represents the pinnacle of our engineering expertise. Seeing the car roll out of the door of our factory in Liverpool, in such an exquisite specification, was a very special moment for everyone at BAC.”

Probably the last time they’ll see it roll out at such pedestrian speeds, too. The Mono R gets a 2.5-litre 342bhp four-cylinder engine matched to a Formula 3-derived sequential six-speed gearbox. It weighs less than most eyebrows at just 555kg, and is capable of bending the world around to such lengths it lapped Anglesey in 1m 6.9s. Context? That’s two seconds faster than a McLaren P1 GTR.

This is the 150th BAC Mono ever built: a 342bhp Mono R

And this very special milestone comes in a ‘sci-fi-inspired’ livery. Sci-fi speed, don’t forget

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Ex-Mclaren CEO Mike Flewitt named new BAC chairman

Brit outlines plan to take Liverpool firm into the future, with scope for electrification and a two-seater

Mike Flewitt, former CEO of McLaren Automotive, has been named as chairman of the Liverpool-based Briggs Automobile Company, better known as BAC, promising to bring his experience of four decades at the top of the car industry to build what its founders say is their company’s “ambitious growth strategy and new model programme”.

Flewitt says he has known the Briggs brothers for several years, and has been deeply impressed with both the quality of their single-seat BAC Mono R car and the efficiency of their tiny but profitable 40-person business.

Here, he answers questions on his new role, which begins immediately.

Ex-Mclaren CEO Mike Flewitt named new BAC chairman | Autocar

Brit outlines plan to take Liverpool firm into the future, with scope for electrification and a two-seater

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The former boss of McLaren Automotive is now chairman of BAC

Mike Flewitt to lead BAC as it ‘prepares for further expansion’

The former boss of McLaren Automotive, Mike Flewitt, has today been announced as the new chairman of the Briggs Automotive Company. Better known as BAC. And better known as purveyors of the literally singular driving experience called the Mono.

Flewitt brings with him a wealth of experience, including eight years at the top of the McLaren Automotive tree where he oversaw the ‘Ultimate’ range of McLaren hypercars – stuff like the P1, Senna, Speedtail and Elva – along with evolving the original 12C concept through 570S, 650S and the superlative 720S.

He’ll join BAC just as the company plans on introducing new models to the current Mono line-up, and as it eyes up global expansion. He’ll also help oversee the “innovative new technologies” the company is developing. Indeed, last year a hydrogen-powered ‘e-Mono’ lapped Silverstone two entire seconds quicker than the ICE version.

“I have long admired what Neill and Ian Briggs have achieved with BAC, and their unflinching determination to engineer one of the finest driving machines on the planet,” Flewitt said. “The single-seater Mono and Mono R supercars are extraordinary accomplishments that could have only been created by continuously pushing the boundaries of automotive technology.

The former boss of McLaren Automotive is now chairman of BAC

Mike Flewitt to lead BAC as it ‘prepares for further expansion’

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BAC ‘backs off’ from hydrogen E-Mono project

Development of the zero-emission single-seat prototype has been slowed amid focus on current products

British sports car manufacturer BAC has “backed off” from development of its hydrogen fuel-cell E-Mono, company co-founder Neill Briggs has told Autocar.

In 2021, BAC announced it had partnered with MIRA-based Viritech to create a zero-emission version of the Mono sports car. Their efforts yielded the E-Mono, a virtual study using a hydrogen fuel cell stack, 20kWh battery and four electric motors, giving a 704kg kerbweight and 371bhp power output.

Despite weighing 149kg more than the BAC Mono R (powered by a 2.5-litre Ford-sourced combustion engine) the E-Mono was more than 2.0sec quicker around a simulated lap of Silverstone.

Little has been said about the hydrogen project since mid-2022. Now, the British firm’s co-founder has hinted that the UK government’s push towards battery-electric vehicles – plus recent filling station closures – has slowed the development of hydrogen powertrains.

“We conducted that investigation about two years ago, primarily [because], as a business, we needed to be prepared for whichever way the government went [with its energy strategy],” he said.

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