Genius Cars

Genius Cars
legal form
founding	1988
resolution	1996
Seat	Ancrum , Roxburghshire
management	Robert Taylor
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Genie Cars was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Robert Taylor founded the company in Ancrum in the Scottish county of Roxburghshire in 1988 or 1989 . He started producing automobiles and kits . The brand name was Genie . Production ended in 1992 or 1996. A total of about nine copies were made.

vehicles

The only model was the Wasp . It is described as a mixture of a 1930s roadster and a modern sports car . The base was a ladder frame made of steel tubes. A fiberglass body was mounted on top. Various four-cylinder engines from the Ford Cortina and Fiat powered the vehicles.

literature

• Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter genius.
• George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 617. (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. 102 (English).

Web links

• Allcarindex (accessed March 1, 2015)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter genius.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 617. (English)
3. ↑ ^{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. 102 (English).