Melling Sportscars

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Melling Sportscars Limited
legal form Limited
founding 2005
resolution 2009
Seat Rochdale , England
management Alwyn Melling
Branch Automobiles

Melling Wildcat
Melling Wildcat

Melling Sportscars was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Alwyn Melling and his wife Margaret Rose Melling founded the company on November 25, 2005. The company was based in Rochdale . Alwyn became director and Margaret became secretary. They made automobiles that were marketed as Melling . On February 17, 2009 the company was dissolved.

Production ran from 2007 to 2008 or from 2006 to supposedly 2010, depending on the source.

Margaret Melling died on July 22, 2009. After that there were plans to continue production. There is a report from March 2010 about plans for a plant in Portugal .

In 2011 Melling founded Melling Consultancy Design together with Phil Egginton and Beverley Ellison . However, another source states that this company existed from March 8, 2002 to December 7, 2004.

The connection to Melling Sportscars from Edina, Minnesota in the USA is unclear. This company existed from August 30, 2004 to August 2, 2013.

vehicles

Hellcat

The Hellcat was introduced in February 2007. With its specified speed of 443 km / h, it should replace the SSC Aero as the fastest vehicle approved for the road. It has a V10 engine with four turbochargers drawing from the 5990  cc 895  kW / 1217  hp at 7200 min -1 . The maximum torque is 1193 Nm at 5400 min -1 . The power is distributed over the rear axle.

The car can sprint from 0-100 km / h in around 3.2 seconds, and the top speed is around 440 km / h. The £ 185,000 price does not include a radio or heater.

griffon

The Griffon is a two-seater sports car based on the TVR Griffith . Production started in January 2008. The car has a 4.7 liter engine that develops 350 kW (480 hp). The empty weight is approx. 1120 kg. The maximum speed stated by the manufacturer is 288 km / h (180 mph). The unit is priced at £ 50,000.

Wildcat

In January 2017, the auction house auctioned Coys a vehicle of 2008 for 22,375 dollars . It is referred to as the prototype of the Melling Wildcat , which the manufacturer did not sell. A total of seven vehicles of this model were built.

Web links

Commons : Melling Sportscars  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d www.opencorporates.com (English, accessed August 25, 2018)
  2. ↑ Jan Clevering: d'Auto (Dutch, accessed August 25, 2018)
  3. ↑ Allcarindex (English, accessed on August 25, 2018)
  4. ↑ Katie Fitzpatrick: Wife of car designer dies on business trip (accessed August 25, 2018)
  5. ↑ Al Melling Sports Cars starts production (accessed August 25, 2018)
  6. ↑ Mike Lee: Melling Sports Cars (accessed August 25, 2018)
  7. ↑ www.opencorporates.com on Melling Consultancy Design (accessed August 25, 2018)
  8. ↑ www.opencorporates.com on Melling Sportscars from the USA (accessed August 25, 2018)
  9. ↑ http://www.mellingsportscars.com/autocar%202007%20small.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.mellingsportscars.com  
  10. ↑ entheweb.co.uk ( Memento from December 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from August 25, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.drugasmuga.com
  12. ↑ a b Classic Car Weekly (English, accessed on August 25, 2018)