Kara Sports Cars

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Kara Sports Cars
legal form
founding 1991
resolution 1993
Seat Southend-on-Sea , Essex
management Richard Sellicks, Peter Baisden
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Kara 430

Kara Sports Cars was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Richard and Peter Sellicks Baisden founded in 1991, the company in Southend-on-Sea in the county Essex . They started making automobiles and kits . The brand name was Kara . Production ended in 1993. Mercury Motorsport , RS Automotive and RS Motorsport continued production under their own brand names. A total of about 115 copies have been made so far.

vehicles

The only model was the 430 . It was inspired by the Ford RS 200 . A spaceframe formed the basis. Suspension, steering and brakes came from the Ford Sierra . Various four-cylinder engines and V6 engines from Ford , V6 engines from Renault and V8 engines 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 KaRa.
  • 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 , pp. 1013-1014. (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. 135 (English).

Web links

Commons : Kara Sports Cars  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter KaRa.
  2. ↑ 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 , pp. 1013-1014. (English)
  3. ↑ 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. 135 (English).