Universal Products

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Universal Products
legal form
founding 1999
Seat Kempton Park , South Africa
Branch Automobiles
Website universal-products.co.za

Universal Products is a South African manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in 1999 in Kempton Park . Initially, various products made of fiberglass and pendants were created . This also included bodies for racing cars . Later the production of racing cars began. Road vehicles followed, marketed as Universal .

It is unclear whether there is a connection to Venom Cars from Boksburg , which offered some models of the same name until 2009.

vehicles

The company itself first wrote in 2007 that it was producing replicas of the Lola T 70 racing car . The brand name for this is DAW . One source states that production was taken over by a company called DAW .

The company has been calling replicas of street sports cars since 2008. Their brand name is Universal. At first it was the Porsche 356 as a Speedster and the Porsche 718 . Also on offer is a Lotus Seven- style vehicle called the Millennium 7 , designed by Chris Carstens and Kobus van der Walt. A source says the Millennium 7 is being sold under the Millennium brand , which the company doesn't confirm.

In June 2016, the range consisted of the DAW T 70 Mk. III B , DAW T 70 Mk. II Spyder , 356 Speedster , 356 Coupé , 550 Spyder , RSK 718 Spyder , Millennium 7 and the VW buggy Salamander .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d car brand Universal (Dutch, accessed on 26 June 2016)
  2. ↑ The company's website ( Memento from June 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ a b d'Auto on the DAW brand (Dutch, accessed on June 26, 2016)
  4. ↑ a b c Company information on replicas (English)
  5. ↑ d'Auto on the Millennium brand (Dutch, accessed June 26, 2016)
  6. ^ Company information on replicas (accessed October 24, 2014)