Grinnall Specialist Cars

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Grinnall Cars Ltd.
Grinnall Specialist Cars
legal form
founding 1982
Seat Bewdley
management Mark Grinnall
Branch Automotive industry
Website www.grinnallcars.com/

Grinnall Scorpion III
Rear view

Grinnall Specialist Cars , previously Grinnall Cars Ltd. , is a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Mark Grinnall founded Grinnall Cars Ltd. in 1982 . in Stourport-on-Severn . He modified Triumph vehicles . The company later moved to Bewdley and has been operating as Grinnall Specialist Cars since then . In 1990 the production of self-developed automobiles began. The brand name is Grinnall . More than 150 vehicles were built by 1998 and around 200 vehicles by March 2000.

vehicles

The Scorpion III model is a tricycle with the single wheel at the rear. A water-cooled four - cylinder engine from BMW is mounted in a mid-engine design in front of the rear wheel. You can choose from engines with 1,100 cc displacement and 100 hp , 1200 cc and 110 hp, 135 hp and 170 hp and 1300 cc and 180 hp. The open body, designed by Steve Harper, is made of fiberglass and offers space for two people.

In 1998 work began on the four-wheel Scorpion IV . Prototypes were presented between 2001 and 2005 . Production started in 2005. The vehicles are powered by a four-cylinder Audi engine with a displacement of 1800 cc.

1999 began the development of a tricycle with a single front wheel, the front of which corresponds to a motorcycle . The basis of the R 3 T model is the Triumph Rocket III from Triumph Motorcycles . The engine is a three-cylinder engine with a displacement of 2300 cm³. There are also the models 1150 R , 1200 C and 1200 CL based on BMW.

literature

Web links

Commons : Grinnall Specialist Cars  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  2. ↑ a b George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 (English).