The Cobra legend was built on a small UK roadster fitted with a US V8. Now it's back.

Continuing the recent nostalgic trend of reworking '60s cars for today's market, a new Cobra may be on the way, reports Auto Express. Concept images of the Cobra Venom V8 have surfaced, showing a car that retains the classic Shelby proportions.

Although the resulting car will no doubt be less exciting to drive than the raw originals, it will supposedly get a supercharged Ford V8 pumping out 524 horsepower. That should be good for a 0-100km/h time of 3.4 seconds, on the way to a top speed of 342km/h.

But there has been no confirmation as to whether the Venom project has (or will) move beyond the concept renderings.