Venturi Paris

Manufacture de Voitures de Sport (1984–1994) Venturi SA (1994–1996) Venturi Paris SA (1996–2000)
legal form	SA
founding	1984
resolution	2000
Reason for dissolution	liquidation
Seat	Couëron
Number of employees	30 to 150
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Venturi 260 LM

Venturi 300 Atlantique

Venturi Paris SA , previously Manufacture de Voitures de Sport and Venturi SA , was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Claude Poiraud that before in Alpine worked, and Gérard Godfroy, who as a designer for Peugeot worked, founded in 1984 in Cholet , the company Manufacture de Voitures de Sport and presented in the same year their first model. It had the brand name MVS and the model name Venturi . The next design followed in 1986, now under the brand name Venturi . Series production began in April 1987. In 1990 the company moved to Couëron . The company Keinath offered the vehicles from 1992 for a short time in Germany. In 1994 a consortium of French industrialists and bankers took over the company and renamed the company Venturi SA . In 1996, Seree Rakvit took over the company from the Thai Nakarin-Benz Group, which now traded as Venturi Paris SA . In 1998, Auto Americas took over from Australia . At the time, the number of employees dropped from a previous high of 150 to 30. In February 2000, the company went into liquidation . Venturi Automobiles from Monaco took over the remainder.

vehicles

The company exclusively produced two-seater sports cars with a mid-engine . In addition to coupés , convertibles were also created . Venturi got the PRV engine , a V6 engine , and redesigned it.

Models

• 1985–1996 Venturi Cabriolet , 200–260 hp
• 1993 Venturi Trophy , 400–500 hp, 160,000 DM (approx. 81,800 euros)
• 1994–1999 Venturi 400 GT , 400–408 hp, 258,500 DM (approx. 132,170 euros)
• 1995 Venturi 260 LM , 191 kW (260 PS), 144,000 DM (approx. 73,630 euros)
• 1995–2001 Venturi 300 Atlantique , 207–228 kW (281–310 hp), 158,000 DM (approx. 80,780 euros)

Engines

European V6 as a six-cylinder V-engine with the following expansion stages:

• 2458 cc displacement, 147 kW (200 PS), 296 Nm
• 2849 cm³ displacement, 191 kW (260 PS), 405–440 Nm, V _max : 270 km / h
• 2946 cm³ displacement, 207 kW (281 PS), 420 Nm, V _max : 280 km / h
• 2975 cm³ displacement, 294–300 kW (400–408 hp), 520 Nm, V _max : 285–295 km / h
• 2975 cm³ displacement, 228 kW (310 hp), 402 Nm
• Le Mans version of the Trophy with 368 kW (500 PS), V _max : 300 km / h

Racing

Venturi in Formula 1: The Venturi LC92 (1992 season)

Around sixty drivers competed for the Pasha Gentlemen Drivers Trophy at the in-house Venturi Challenge Cup. In 1994 Venturi won the European GT Championship with its 600 hp racing vehicles , thus prevailing against the competition from Porsche and Ferrari .

Venturi was the majority owner of the French Formula 1 team Larrousse for a year from autumn 1991 . The racing team entered the 1992 Formula 1 season under the name Venturi Larrousse ; the car used by the team was named Venturi LC92 in 1992 . In fact, Venturi did not have any influence on the fortunes of the team, which was still led by Gérard Larrousse ; Venturi was also not involved in the development of the LC92. The engagement ended in August 1992 after Venturi sold its team shares to an investment group due to economic difficulties.

Production numbers

In the period from 1992 to 1999, a total of 264 vehicles were handcrafted.

• 1992: 75 copies
• 1993: 24 copies
• 1994: 26 copies
• 1995: 41 copies
• 1996: 28 copies
• 1997: 35 copies
• 1998: 25 copies
• 1999: 10 copies

literature

• Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
• 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 (English).
• Rudolf Heitz (editor-in-chief): Auto catalog 1989. Vereinigte Motor-Verlage GmbH & Co. KG, Stuttgart 1988.

Web links

Commons : Venturi Paris  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• GTÜ Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit mbH , accessed on November 26, 2013.
• Allcarindex , accessed on November 30, 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l} Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
2. ^ ^{A b c} Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .