Extreme sports cars

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Extreme sports cars
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founding 2002
Seat Ottringham , East Riding of Yorkshire
management Ashley Martin
Branch Automobiles

Extreme 360

Extreme Sportscars is a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

2002 Ashley Martin founded the company in Ottringham in the county of East Riding of Yorkshire . He started producing automobiles and kits . The brand name is Extreme . A total of about 1200 copies have been made so far.

vehicles

The company makes replicas of sports cars.

The first model appeared in 2002, the 355 . The vehicle is similar to the Ferrari F 355 . It is based on the Toyota MR 2 . The body is made of glass fiber reinforced plastic . About 300 copies have been made so far.

The 360 appeared in 2004. It is similar to the Ferrari 360 and is based on the Peugeot 406 Coupé . The coupé with a front engine and space for four people has so far found around 250 buyers.

The 430 is designed in the same way. It is similar to the Ferrari F 430 . Since 2007 there have been around 300 buyers so far.

The exterior of the Murci is similar to the Lamborghini Murciélago . There is a choice between a version based on the Toyota MR 2 and a version with a separate spaceframe chassis . About 180 copies of this model have been made since 2009.

The DTM is a converted Mercedes-Benz CLK that resembles a DTM racing car. It has found around 15 buyers since 2009.

The 997 was only available in 2010. This was the conversion of a Porsche 911 from the 996 series into one of the 997 series . Sales remained low with ten copies.

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. 90 (English).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h 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. 90 (English).