Lister, founded in 1954, produced Britain’s most successful sports racing car of the 1950's, the Lister-Jaguar. The 'Cars from Cambridge' were designed, and built by racing driver Brian Lister, his big break coming when he was offered the engines and gearboxes by William Lyons from the retiring Jaguar D Types. Lyons was correct in believing that Lister would be capable of developing a race winning car, thus keeping the Jaguar name in the forefront of racing, at little cost to Jaguar and so Lister-Jaguar was born. Brian Lister designed and built a new lightweight and aerodynamic chassis and ‘knobbly’ body to take the Jaguar drive train and the world’s best sports racing car of the 1950’s was born! For five seasons from 1954 Lister cars were always in the headlines and consistently beat the much larger works teams such as Aston Martin and Jaguar.
Laurence Pearce took over in 1995 and designed a new series of Lister Storm GT race cars and spent the next decade rebuilding the racing heritage. The 'glory days' were back with winning drivers such as Tiff Needell. Now, as a totally re-organised company under the ownership of the Warrantywise Group, they are once again building the several iconic Lister Continuation cars together with the altogether contemporary Lister LFT-666 and LFT-C, based on the Jaguar F-Type and the Stealth, based on the Jaguar F-Pace, from their factory in Cambridge .
