Without any doubt, the Ballot 2LS was a brilliant design, what with its cutting-edge technology and amazing performance. But it had one major shortcoming: its price!
Ballot was well aware that the price of this technological tour de force would keep away most of the enthusiast car buyers, so he requested Ernest Henry to design a model with much less elaborate features, which, by being cheaper, could reach a relatively wider market.
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