Tommy Kaira
Tommy Kaira ( Japanese ト ミ ー カ イ ラ , Tomī Kaira ) was a Japanese rally team and automobile tuner based in Toyota .
history
The name Tommy Kaira first appeared in 1987. The small company founded by Yoshikazu Tomita ( 冨 田 義 一 ) and Kikuo Kaira ( 解 良 喜 久 雄 ) initially specialized from 1987 to 1996 in upgrading models from other companies both visually and in the engine sector.
In 1996 Tommy Kaira presented her first automobile: a small, self-designed sports convertible called Tommy Kaira ZZ . The style of the little car is very reminiscent of a mixture of older Porsche models and the Lotus Elise . The vehicle, which weighed only 690 kg, was powered by a four-cylinder engine with 195 hp from a 2.0 l displacement.
The ZZ was replaced by the ZZ II . In this case, the performance was increased to 550 hp with a weight of only 1000 kg. A six-cylinder Rb26dett from Nissan with biturbo technology ensured this performance . For the acceleration from 0-100 km / h, the car needs about 3.3 seconds with a torque of 545 Newton meters .
Both Tommy Kaira models are in-house developments. Production of these vehicles began on June 3, 1996 at Tomita Auto UK in Hingham , Norfolk , Great Britain. This company went into liquidation in spring 1999 .
1999 is also given as the end of the Tommy Kaira brand . Autobacs Sports Car Laboratory is the successor.
Model overview
- Tommy Kaira Z.
- Tommy Kaira Z type II
- Tommy Kaira M-13c
- Tommy Kaira GT
- Tommy Kaira M20b
- Tommy Kaira M20b-2.2
- Tommy Kaira B4
- Tommy Kaira B6
- Tommy Kaira tb
- Tommy Kaira ZZ II
- Tommy Kaira S-Ss
- Tommy Kaira BZ11
Old models
- Tommy Kaira M19
- Tommy Kaira M30E
- Tommy Kaira M30
- Tommy Kaira M20
- Tommy Kaira GT
- Tommy Kaira M18si
- Tommy Kaira M18si R
- Tommy Kaira M30C
- Tommy Kaira M30
- Tommy Kaira M20
- Tommy Kaira M30Z
- Tommy Kaira M20t
- Tommy Kaira GT
- Tommy Kaira M20si
- Tommy Kaira M20si NA
- Tommy Kaira R.
- Tommy Kaira M20b
- Tommy Kaira M25
- Tommy Kaira M20-p
- Tommy Kaira M-13
- Tommy Kaira R.
- Tommy Kaira M25-tw
- Tommy Kaira M20-fb
- Tommy Kaira tb
- Tommy Kaira B4
- Tommy Kaira 25R
- Tommy Kaira M-13c
- Tommy Kaira R.
- Tommy Kaira P-tune
- Tommy kaira tb-2.2
- Tommy Kaira B4-2.2
- Tommy Kaira wR
- Tommy Kaira Baby Gang
- Tommy Kaira M20b-2.2
- Tommy Kaira is
- Tommy Kaira VOXY
- Tommy Kaira B6
- Tommy kaira tb6
- Tommy Kaira M-13
- Tommy kaira fb-2.2
- Tommy Kaira tb
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tomita Auto UK at www.duedil.com (accessed April 2, 2016)
- ^ A b George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1596. (English)
- ↑ a b d'Auto (Dutch, accessed April 2, 2016)