Regis Automotive

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Regis Automotive
legal form
founding 1989
resolution 1992
Seat Bognor Regis , West Sussex
management Bruce Dixon
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Regis Automotive was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in 1989 in Bognor Regis in the county of West Sussex founded. Bruce Dixon is named as the owner and Dennis Webb and Ian Cross as designers. The production of automobiles and kits began. The brand name was Regis . Production ended in 1992.

vehicles

First model was Ram 4 S . This was the replica of the Lotus Elite built in 1974–1982. Lotus Cars wasn't happy about that. Many parts came from the Ford Cortina .

In 1989 the successor Mohawk appeared . The design had been redesigned. A spaceframe chassis formed the basis. A fiberglass body was mounted on top. Four-cylinder engines from the Ford Cortina and V8 engines from Rover powered the vehicles. About nine copies were made of this model.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Regis Mohawk.
  • 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. 1307. (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. 175 and 205 (English).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Regis Mohawk.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k 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. 1307. (English)
  3. ↑ a b c 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. 175 and 205 (English).