GTS tuning

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GTS tuning
legal form
founding 2001
resolution 2010
Seat Canterbury and Faversham , Kent
management Darren George
Branch Automobiles

GTS panther

GTS Tuning was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Darren George founded the company in Kent in 2001 . The places Canterbury and Faversham as well as Longfield for the period from 2005 to 2008 have been handed down . He started producing automobiles and kits . The brand name was GTS . Production ended in 2010. A total of over 100 copies were made.

vehicles

The Panther was a two-seater roadster in the style of the Lotus Seven . There was a choice of engines from BMW and Ford . It was on offer from 2001 to 2009 and found around 50 buyers.

The widened versions Panther W 7 DE and Panther BMW 7 DE achieved roughly the same number between 2003 and 2010.

The Challenger was similar to the Lotus Eleven racing car . GTS Tuning took over this model from Triton Sports Cars in 2005 and revised it. A total of around five copies of this model were made by both manufacturers between 2001 and 2009.

The 40 brought it to around three copies between 2009 and 2010. This was the replica of the Ford GT 40 . The engine came from Ford , some parts from Audi .

In addition, GTS Tuning took over the production rights to their JBA Falcon model from JBA Motors in 2005 , but discontinued the project in 2009 without having manufactured a vehicle.

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. 53, 115, 131, 192 and 272 (English).

Web links

Commons : GTS Tuning  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g 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. 53, 115, 131, 192 and 272 (English).