RW kitcars

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RW Kitcars Limited
legal form Limited
founding 1983
resolution 2000
Seat Melton Mowbray , Leicestershire
management Roger Woolley
Branch Automobile manufacturer

RW Karma based on VW

RW Kitcars Limited was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

1983 Roger Woolley founded the company in Melton Mowbray in the county of Leicestershire . He started producing automobiles and kits . The brand name was RW . Production ended in 2000. A total of over 800 copies were made.

vehicles

The first and best-selling model was the Karma . RW took over the AD Karma model from Automobile Design & Developments , which was previously marketed under the AD brand. The vehicle was similar to the Dino 246 . To select the stood chassis from VW Beetle with its four-cylinder - Boxer engine in the rear, a chassis with front engine from the Ford Cortina and one with a mid-engine - V8 of Rover . About 795 copies were made of this model.

The chopper was available from 1983 to 1984. It was a trike with an engine from the VW Beetle. About five copies were made of this.

The Taurus was a replica of a Lamborghini Countach . This was originally a project by Automobile Design & Developments as well. This model was also based on the VW Beetle. About 32 vehicles were built between 1985 and 1986, of which about 30 were sold to Germany.

The 427 was the successor to the AD 427 and thus a replica of the AC Cobra . 18 vehicles had a front engine with rear wheel drive. Ten other kits that were sold to France were based on the chassis of the VW Beetle.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter RW.
  • 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 , pp. 1392-1393. (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 and 221 (English).

Web links

Commons : RW Kitcars  - 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 RW.
  2. ↑ 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 , pp. 1392-1393. (English)
  3. ↑ a b c d e 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 and 221 (English).