Ahhhh - England. Yeah that would be a problem. Makes me wonder how well received your car is when people see it? I've only seen about 6-7 different SuperCoupe's here in my town in Oregon (125,000 people). Can't imagine how rare your car is over there.
They hate it to begin with because the exterior is so poorly maintained.
There's a few types of popular car culture themes over here. There's the new car crowd (BMW 3 series, Audi a3/a4, things like that.) There's the hatchbacks like the Vauxhall astra VXR, Focus RS, Skoda fabia VRS etc. The euro volkswagen scene, There's the Japanese crowd and then there's me who turns up in the superpoop. It does not fit in at all.
It tends to change when they get in it. Nobody has ever heard of automatic seatbelts, they are surprised to learn about it having IRS and an upper/lower control arm setup on the front, along with the ride control on firm it pretty much destroys their assumptions about american cars.
The general consensus on american cars is they all have solid rear axles, ride on leaf springs, are all V8's and are huge and heavy. The tbird suspension is a lot more sophisticated than they imagine, is a V6 motor and isn't the biggest car on the road. Then for it to have an independent rear? Blows their mind.
The sn95 cobra I have tends to get the most negativity, though.