Phoenix Automotive (Wiltshire)

Phoenix Automotive Limited
legal form	Limited
founding	1998
resolution	1999
Seat	Dilton Marsh at Westbury , Wiltshire
management	Leon Sansom
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Phoenix Automotive Limited was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Leon Sansom, the stepson of David Yoxall, the Le Mans Sports Car Company launched, in 1998 founded the company in Dilton Marsh at Westbury in the county of Wiltshire . He started producing automobiles and kits . The brand name was Phoenix . Production ended in 1999. A total of about 16 copies were made.

Tiger Racing continued production under its own name.

There was no connection to Phoenix Automotive from Gloucestershire , which used the same company name years earlier.

vehicles

The only model was the Avon Sprint . The open two-seater was inspired by the Lotus Seven . The four-cylinder engines came from Ford and Rover .

literature

• George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 3: P – Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1223. (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. 32 (English).

Web links

• Allcarindex (accessed May 1, 2015)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 3: P – Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1223. (English)
2. ↑ 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. 32 (English).