COMMENT
Steve Cropley
MY WEEK IN CARS
RML’s business is safe, says CEO Mallock, despite erroneous scare stories
MONDAY
Most weeks begin better than this one. Started hearing rumours that RML, the racing, engineering and innovation firm whose roots go back to 1958, was in trouble. This seemed at odds with the truth: I knew for a fact that RML had been expanding merrily, creating extraordinary (often secret) race and road cars for blue-chip clients. The superb and mightily successful Ferrari-reminiscent Short Wheelbase is an example. The firm’s patriarch, Arthur Mallock, a post-war innovator in the Colin Chapman mould, was a special hero of mine, so I found the news upsetting. I rang Michael Mallock, RML’s CEO and Arthur’s grandson, to hear the truth.