Minari

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Minari Roadsport (open)
Minari Roadsport (closed)

Minari is a British car brand.

Brand history

Sean Prendergast and Andrew Borrowman founded in 1990, the company Minari Engineering in Ranton in the county of Staffordshire . They started making automobiles and kits . The brand name was Minari . In 1994 the company moved to Seighford , also in Staffordshire. Production ended in 2000.

Minari International from Barrow Gurney in Somerset continued production of a model from 2000. Two other models were manufactured by Adrenaline Motorsport from Newquay , Cornwall , from 2006 to 2008 , before Peninsula Sports Cars from Redruth , Cornwall took over production under the direction of Paul Featherstone-Harvey in 2008 .

A total of around 146 copies have been made so far.

vehicles

Below is an overview of the models, periods, approximate production figures, manufacturers and brief descriptions.

model Period number of pieces Manufacturer Brief description
Minari Clubsport 1990– 12
  • 1990-2000 Minari Engineering
  • 2000– Minari International
 Roadster with fiberglass body . Four - cylinder boxer engines from the Alfa Romeo Alfasud and Alfa Romeo 33 power the vehicles.
Minari Roadsport 1993– 130
  • 1993-2000 Minari Engineering
  • 2006–2008 Adrenaline Motorsport
  • 2008– Peninsula Sports Cars
 Revised version of the clubsport .
Minari RSR 1997– 4th
  • 1997-2000 Minari Engineering
  • 2006–2008 Adrenaline Motorsport
  • 2008– Peninsula Sports Cars
 Lightweight racing version of road sport without a windshield .

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Minari.
  • 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. 1038-1039. (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. 170 (English).

Web links

Commons : Minari  - collection of images, 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 Minari.
  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. 1038-1039. (English)
  3. ^ A b 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. 170 (English).