Aeon Sportscars

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Aeon Sportscars Limited
legal form Limited
founding 2000
Seat Marden , Kent
management Keith Wood, Susan Heather Wood
Branch Automobile manufacturer
Website www.aeonsportscars.com

Aeon GT 3 Coupe
Aeron GT 3 Spyder

Aeon Sportscars Limited is a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was in on 3 November 2000 Marden in the county of Kent founded. Keith Wood and John Timothy Hewat became Directors on July 1, 2001. They started producing automobiles and kits in 2003 . The brand name is Aeon . Susan Heather Wood became the second director on March 31, 2007. Hewat left the company at the same time and founded Blaze Motorsport . Exceed Autocraft from Doncaster , led by Matthew Flett, has been a licensee since 2011 . A total of around 17 copies have been made so far.

vehicles

The first model was the GT 3 Coupé in 2003 . Special features of the coupé are the three-seater space, with the driver sitting in the middle, and the gullwing doors . The engine is usually from Ford . The GT 2 Coupé, which has been available since 2011 , conventionally has two seats next to each other. The coupes have found around twelve buyers so far.

The GT 3 Spyder appeared in 2004. This is the open version of the coupé. Usually drives a four-cylinder engine from Volkswagen with 1,800 cc displacement and turbocharger to the vehicles. Initially also with three seats, the GT 2 Spyder and GT 2 Aero with two seats next to each other have also been available since 2011 . About five copies of the Spyder have been made so far.

The Epona was designed by Garry Gooderham. Aeon Sportscars presented a model at a trade fair in 2009, but did not put it into series production. Exceed Autocraft has been trying since 2011. This light sports car with front-engine and rear-wheel drive is planned as a coupé and roadster .

literature

  • Steve Hole: AZ of Kit Cars. The definitive encyclopaedia of the UK's kit-car industry since 1949 . Haynes Publishing, Sparkford 2012, ISBN 978-1-84425-677-8 , pp. 20-21 and 86 (English).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Steve Hole: AZ of Kit Cars. The definitive encyclopaedia of the UK's kit-car industry since 1949 . Haynes Publishing, Sparkford 2012, ISBN 978-1-84425-677-8 , pp. 20-21 and 86 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c opencorporates.com (accessed September 1, 2015)