Build your own Supercar?
Discussion
Factory Five are an established kit car company and their latest offering does look good.
https://www.factoryfive.com/whats-new/f9r-concept-...
You purchase the chassis, body and electrics and then start bolting it all together. The engine (along with a few other elements) are then bought separately by the customer and its a choice of what is able to fit in the engine bay. Choice is based up on how mental you want the car to be of course.
Factory purchase could be well under the £80,000 mark then add in the engine cost and you could have a comparatively cheap supercar.
Building it yourself you'd need the tools, time and space but I read elsewhere that they should be able to be built by the average Joe home mechanic enthusiast. So if you've built a Westfield/Caterham type kit car in the past then this may be your perfect "step-up"
https://www.factoryfive.com/whats-new/f9r-concept-...
You purchase the chassis, body and electrics and then start bolting it all together. The engine (along with a few other elements) are then bought separately by the customer and its a choice of what is able to fit in the engine bay. Choice is based up on how mental you want the car to be of course.
Factory purchase could be well under the £80,000 mark then add in the engine cost and you could have a comparatively cheap supercar.
Building it yourself you'd need the tools, time and space but I read elsewhere that they should be able to be built by the average Joe home mechanic enthusiast. So if you've built a Westfield/Caterham type kit car in the past then this may be your perfect "step-up"
Ignoring that I'm already building a car...I'd personally be more tempted to go for a RCR Superlite SL-C http://race-car-replicas.com/superlite
nikaiyo2 said:
LOL
Would I drive a high performance car build by me? NO chance!
It would take 30 years for a start
I've spent plenty time helping mechanics when I used to race but I also wouldn't feel safe building something like that myself.Would I drive a high performance car build by me? NO chance!
It would take 30 years for a start
I'd happily give a Caterham type build a go and as long as I become happy with torquing up connections correctly and having them checked out, only then would I venture out on an airfield track day with plenty run off.
Building a car Supercar is a different game altogether. I guess the idea behind this company is that the home mechanic does the 'easy' stuff and then hires in a competent mechanic to do the 'tricky' stuff. This will hide an amount of cost that the build will require if not competent yourself..
But I do like the idea of kit cars. They offer a route for high performance cars at a much cheaper rate than manufacture prices. And if you've built it yourself you don't necessarily need to be reliant on paying for dealer/garage maintenance/servicing as you'd have the intimate knowledge of your own build.
Edited by GroundZero on Thursday 10th September 13:52
Why not offer a subscription like https://www.model-space.com/gb/lamborghini-huracan...
A couple of hundred quid a week and your car arrives piece by piece.
A couple of hundred quid a week and your car arrives piece by piece.
Apologies in advance for what’s probably a pretty stupid question - but see when you buy something like this or a Caterham / Westfield / a.n.other kit car for building yourself - do these things come with an instruction manual / guide to keep you right?
Or is it assumed you need to have a level of knowledge to be able to feel your way through it yourself unguided?
I’ve always had it in my head as following a set of Lego instructions but I’m guessing it’s not that simple haha!
Or is it assumed you need to have a level of knowledge to be able to feel your way through it yourself unguided?
I’ve always had it in my head as following a set of Lego instructions but I’m guessing it’s not that simple haha!
emperorburger said:
If you don't trust yourself to build it, there are always some really nice examples for sale where all the hard work has already been done for you.
LOLI used work with a guy who had a Marcos kit car, that he started building in 1976, when I last worked with him in 2000/1 ish it was still WIP!
annodomini2 said:
The thing is, the market for kit cars is usually at the bottom end.
Most of the people spending £80k+ on a car, will definitely want it turn key.
Which sort of defeats their business model.
It doesn't make sense
Well, some people - some PHers - spend quite a bit of money on Lancia Stratos and Ford GT40 replica kits, or on high end Ultimas. So I don't think that it's necessarily low end, however I do agree that a kit has to offer something over and above what you could go out and buy for the same money. That could be a recreation of an evocative shape, or just an extreme level of performance that would otherwise cost many times more to achieve.Most of the people spending £80k+ on a car, will definitely want it turn key.
Which sort of defeats their business model.
It doesn't make sense
annodomini2 said:
The thing is, the market for kit cars is usually at the bottom end.
Most of the people spending £80k+ on a car, will definitely want it turn key.
Which sort of defeats their business model.
It doesn't make sense
I know people who have spent much more than that on building GT40 replicas. Most of the people spending £80k+ on a car, will definitely want it turn key.
Which sort of defeats their business model.
It doesn't make sense
While I'm not in the £80k range I've still probably spend about £40k on mine by the time its done. I could have easily "just bought a car" but it's as much in the build as it is owning the car at the end (and indeed many people build them then sell them to start another build).
Fastdruid said:
I know people who have spent much more than that on building GT40 replicas.
While I'm not in the £80k range I've still probably spend about £40k on mine by the time its done. I could have easily "just bought a car" but it's as much in the build as it is owning the car at the end (and indeed many people build them then sell them to start another build).
This is true, the following car started 16 years ago, took 6 months to build, 5 years to drive, crash and sell, a tear to rebuild, a further 8 years to be driven, two more years of my time and money to rebuild after engine hara kiri, but it does make me smile (made the wife despair lol) Now I'm just an old vet, with spanner skills learnt from bikes, and the Ultima is pretty straightforward to build, some bits are frightening if on your own but still achievable. And as regards the driving reward...unbeliievable.While I'm not in the £80k range I've still probably spend about £40k on mine by the time its done. I could have easily "just bought a car" but it's as much in the build as it is owning the car at the end (and indeed many people build them then sell them to start another build).
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