[Ferrotus]

The bodywork on my car is not representative of the shells produced by others.
The body was laid up in 1986 and as yet has very little cracking or weak spots. There is one almost invisible hairline mark appx 1" long alongside the rearmost bonnet 'hump' and a similar one close to the unused (NS) wiper spindle.
The car gets plenty of 'brisk' use so I would have expected any weaknesses to have appeared a long time ago.
I would admit that I made the body a little bit too thick but it has resulted in great longevity. The downside is that the car is 17% heavier that the original Lotus Europa so can be a little tardy on outright acceleration in today's traffic with it's 1558cc Lotus engine.
When the twink gets tired I'll replace with a 2.0 litre Zetec to keep my transaxle and bellhousing unchanged.
Remember this is less of a 'replica ferrari' but a Lotus with the Dino shell.
Unfortunately I have no great knowledge of the 'copies' of the car that are now being produced so couldn't honestly recommend the best.