Lakshmi Performance Cars
| Lakshmi Performance Cars | |
|---|---|
| legal form | |
| founding | 1996 |
| resolution | 2001 |
| Seat | Bangalore , India |
| Branch | Motor vehicles |
Lakshmi Performance Cars was an automobile manufacturer from India .
Company history
Racing driver Sundaram Karivardhan tried to start producing kit cars in the 1990s . However, he died on August 24, 1995. The Bangalore- based company, founded in 1996, was part of the Lakshmi Mills Company . On February 21, 1996, two vehicles were presented at the Auto Expo in Delhi . Dax was involved. In that year the production of automobiles began . The brand name was Lakshmi . The plan was to sell between 300 and 300 vehicles a year. Production ended in 2001. Another source gives the production period from 1994 to 1999.
vehicles
The production model Kari 65 was a Lotus Seven- style vehicle , with a resemblance to Dax's Rush . The versions 2.S , whose engine developed 110 hp , and 2.IRS , which had an engine with 170 hp, have survived .
In 1996, the introduction of a replica of the AC Cobra called Stallion was planned for 1997 .
literature
- 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. 851. (English)
Web links
- d'Auto (Dutch, accessed April 2, 2016)
- Allcarindex (accessed April 2, 2016)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 851. (English)
- ↑ a b c d'Auto (Dutch, accessed April 2, 2016)
- ↑ India - Lakshmi Mills Company announces quarterly result from October 24, 2006. (accessed April 2, 2016)
- ↑ a b c Bharat Ahluwalia: The Dream Machines vom March 6, 1996. (English, accessed April 2, 2016)
- ↑ Allcarindex (English, accessed on April 2, 2016)
