AC Mk V

The AC Mk V was a carbon-fibre-bodied sports car from the period when AC Motor Holdings Ltd, incorporated in Malta in August 2002, controlled the marque. In 2003 Carroll Shelby International and AC Motor Holdings announced an authentic Shelby and AC Cobra, and a new manufacturing plant opened in Malta in 2004, where production of the Mk V began. That same year the first handcrafted aluminium body shell was built at the Frimley works for the Cobra programme. The Mk V did not last. Problems with the factory building brought production to a halt in 2007, so the car had a short life of about three years, and the marque then passed through the Acedes Holdings period and the later joint venture that produced the Mk VI.