TI Motors

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TI Motors
legal form
founding 1985
resolution 1987
Seat Shefford , Bedfordshire
management Tim Ivory
Branch Automobile manufacturer

TI Motors was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

1985 Tim Ivory founded the company in Greenfield in the county of Bedfordshire . He started producing automobiles and kits . The brand name was TI . In 1986 the company moved to Shefford in Bedfordshire. Production ended in 1987. A total of about 35 copies were made.

vehicles

The only model was the Tuscan . This was the replica of the AC Cobra . A steel ladder frame formed the base. An open two-seater body was mounted on it. The front suspension came from the Ford Cortina and the rear, albeit modified, from the Ford Capri . Different V6 engines from Ford and V8 engines from Rover drove to the vehicles. With a new price of £ 1750 for a kit , the model was one of the cheaper offers on the market.

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. 1590. (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. 260 (English).

Web links

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. 1590. (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. 260 (English).