Warp Five

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Warp Five Inc.
legal form Inc.
founding 1983
resolution 2001
Seat Blue Springs , Missouri , USA
Branch Automobiles

Warp Five Inc. was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded on August 8, 1983 in Blue Springs , Missouri . The production of automobiles and kit cars began in 1992 with the acquisition of two projects from Manta Cars . The brand name was Warp Five . On August 2, 2001, the company was dissolved. Deviating from this, two sources state that production ran until 2005.

vehicles

The Manta GT was the revised successor to the Manta Mirage Manta Cars and mounting the successor to the Manta assembly . The suspension came from the Ford Mustang II . Instead of the previous boxer engine from the Chevrolet Corvair , a Porsche engine powered the vehicles.

The Starship had a motorcycle engine. The two seats were arranged one behind the other. The arrangement of the wheels was unusual: one wheel in front, two in the middle and one in the back.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1722. (English)
  2. ↑ a b opencorporates (English, accessed on February 18, 2017)
  3. ↑ Allcarindex (English, accessed on February 18, 2017)
  4. ^ D'Auto (Dutch, accessed February 18, 2017)