RV Dynamics

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RV Dynamics
legal form
founding 1995
resolution 2008
Seat Feering at Colchester , Essex
management Vince Wright
Branch Automobiles

RV nemesis

RV Dynamics was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Roy Sellwood and Vince Wright founded the company in 1995 in Feering in Colchester in the county of Essex . They started making automobiles and kits . The brand name was RV . Sellwood later left the company. Production ended in 2008. A total of almost 50 copies were made.

vehicles

The first model was the Nemesis . It was inspired by the Ferrari Testarossa . The base was a tubular frame and an aluminum floor . A coupé body made of fiberglass-reinforced plastic was mounted on top. The suspension came from the Jaguar XJ 12 . Various V8 engines from Rover and American manufacturers as well as the V12 engine from Jaguar Cars powered the vehicles. Around seven vehicles were built between 1995 and 2005.

The SV 2000 , also called Bugrat , appeared in 1998. This was an all -terrain vehicle based on a rear-wheel drive model from Škoda . This model had about 14 buyers by 2006.

The most successful model was the python . It was a replica of the AC Cobra , based on a Unique Autocraft model . Many parts came from the BMW 5 Series E 34 series . About 27 copies were made between 2001 and 2008.

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. 1392. (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. 182, 201 and 246 (English).

Web links

Commons : RV Dynamics  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b 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. 1392. (English)
  2. ↑ a b c d 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. 182, 201 and 246 (English).