Altair Engineering (automobile manufacturer)

Altair engineering
legal form
founding	2000
resolution	2005
Seat	Reigate , Surrey
management	Tony Weale
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Altair Engineering was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Tony Weale, who previously at Caterham Cars has worked, founded in 2000, the company in Reigate in the county of Surrey . He started producing automobiles and kits . The brand name was Altair . Production ended in 2005. A total of about five copies were made.

vehicles

The only model was the 1172 . This was a 1960s style roadster . The basis was a spaceframe chassis. A two-seater body made of aluminum was mounted on top. The four-cylinder engine with 1172 cc displacement and 30 hp power came from Ford Popular .

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. 24 (English).

Web links

• Allcarindex (accessed September 1, 2015)
• fordspecials.co.uk (accessed September 1, 2015)
• Malcolm McKay: Wheel on the simple pleasures. In: The Telegraph of August 29, 2000 (accessed September 1, 2015)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} 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. 24 (English).