Friday 10th September 2004

New Toniq pictures

Toniq has released more pictures of its new kit car

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Following on from Tuesday's story, Toniq has released more pictures of what its new kit car will look like.

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[hoganscrogan]

That looks very nice - lotus 7 for the 21st century, would consider this before a caterham.

[Will Ferrari]

Thanks Pistonheads.com for posting these pictures too. As you can see we are now on the 3rd development of the car, this dark blue one will be the 1st runner within a month. The silver & blue one was the original 2002 concept car and the 2003 yellow one was the 1st moulded body on a Stuart Taylor chassis.

A comprehensive kit including the chassis, 12 piece body, aluminium panels with all the unique Toniq-R details - rollbars, headlights, wheel arch mounts is available for just £3995. The turnkey cars start from £16,995 and are Fireblade powered but a GSXR1000 engine is an option.

We had a very enthusiastic reception from the 12,000 visitors Donington Park kit & performance car show at the weekend and look forward to supplying the 1st kits within 6-8 weeks of order. The car is based on the championship winning Stuart Taylor Motorsport chassis with whom Toniq Ltd is associated with. www.stuart-taylor.co.uk

As for the design of the car, I agree a lot of the pictures don't do it justice at all. Most people who see it in the flesh say it looks a lot meaner, squatter and lower (no-one mentions the boat/coffin words which many of you Pistonheaders refer to it as!). Don't worry we're not offended, it's not designed to appeal to everyone, just people who are fed up with the Caterfield shape.

Will, Toniq-R designer

[hoganscrogan]

Well done Will, you guys have done a great job.

[Guy Humpage]

Any chance of a frontal view of the top car (ie. with the lights fitted)?

Still erring towards a from me.

[uldis]

This development was VERY needed.

We all know how well Caterfields perform, but I could just never get around their butt-ugliness.

I was thinking on getting one of these as soon as they were available.
If they only were mid-engined...

Still, SUPERB!

[Wacky Racer]

Will Ferrari said:

As for the design of the car, I agree a lot of the pictures don't do it justice at all. Most people who see it in the flesh say it looks a lot meaner, squatter and lower (no-one mentions the boat/coffin words which many of you Pistonheaders refer to it as!). Don't worry we're not offended, it's not designed to appeal to everyone, just people who are fed up with the Caterfield shape. Will, Toniq-R designer

Will,

Hope you did not take offence at my less than enthusiastic post..

I must admit I have not seen a car in the flesh (so to speak), so perhaps it was unfair of me to pass judgement so soon, perhaps the design might grow on me, with time......

However, as I stated in my earlier post, I wish you every success and good luck in the future....

[will ferrari]

Wacky Racer

No fear - no offence taken. I look forward to your opinion when you see it, speak out, it's a shame when people sit on the fence because they're afraid to criticize.

[Ex-biker]

Guy Humpage said:

Any chance of a frontal view of the top car (ie. with the lights fitted)? Still erring towards a from me.

Is this what you want? Sorry about the reflections from the lights above.

IMO the car looks the bee's compared to the standard '7', the colour (above) does it no justice though. It needs to be bolder, in order to show off the styling more.

The blue / silver car shows the style much better.



>> Edited by Ex-biker on Wednesday 2nd March 13:55

[Guy Humpage]

Thanks for the photo, at the time Will emailed me a load of photos.

Editted to add: Have any kits been sold yet?

>> Edited by Guy Humpage on Wednesday 2nd March 15:51