Espero Limited

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Auriga Design Limited (1990–1998)
Espero Limited (1998–2000)
legal form Limited
founding 1992
resolution 2000
Seat Burton Latimer , Northamptonshire
management
  • Colin Mark Peter Straus
  • Catherine Fiona Straus
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Espero Limited , previously Auriga Design Limited , was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Colin Mark Peter Straus and Catherine Fiona Straus founded on June 12, 1992, the company Auriga Design Limited in Chelmsford in county Essex . They took over their Noble 23 project from Kitdeal and began producing automobiles and kits . The brand name was Auriga . There is evidence that they were already active from 1990, i.e. before the company was founded. In 1998 the company was renamed Espero Limited and moved to Burton Latimer in Northamptonshire . Production ended in 2000. A total of about ten copies were made.

Mamba Motorsport continued production and used the Mamba brand name .

vehicles

The only model was the 23 . It was similar to the Lotus 23 . This was a street legal racing car. Lee Noble designed it. The base was a tubular space frame. The wheel suspensions with some parts of the Ford Cortina were specially designed. The open fiberglass body offered space for two people. Four-cylinder and V6 engines from Alfa Romeo , Ford , Lotus Cars , Renault and Volkswagen were available.

literature

  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 99. (English)
  • 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. 29 (English).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 99. (English)
  2. ↑ opencorporates.com (accessed September 1, 2015)
  3. ^ 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. 29 (English).
  4. ↑ Allcarindex (English, accessed March 1, 2015)