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Old 23rd November 2005, 18:16
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OK, Italo, lets take each one at a time

1)Front wheel drive road/track racer (a modern Jester or Firefox competitor)

The only design I feel is possible within your budget, maybe even retaining the underpinnings of the donor car a la Paul Banham

2) A mid-engine Ariel Atom competitor

Atom's are in the £20K plus area, fully built and are a very straight forward build up so the assembly cost is a small percentage of the price. You are not realistically going to compete with a product such as the Atom on 25% of the cost

3) A small SUV

Dont even bother - from my experience if a buyer can obtain a car that suits it requirement from a mainstream manufacturer, fully built, they will.

4) A modern Mini Marcos coupe

See 3

5) A modern Mid engine GTM Coupe/K3 competitor

See 4, & 3. And a bit of 2 (how successful has the K3 been recently?)

6) a Threewheeler

Possible - would be different, depends on design

Sorry to pee on your bonfire (English phrase....) of various ideas but from my (expensive) experience if you try to compete with designs which can be compared to mainstream manufacturers vehicles, you will fail.

Also you do not appear to have allowed for development costs against some idea of production numbers?
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