Thursday 24th May 2007

New sports car from Ginetta

G50 to be made in 'road', 'GT4' and one-make 'Cup' versions

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Computer rendering all we have for now

This is the G50, an all-new sports car from Ginetta due to be launched early next year.

The G50 has been designed in-house at LNT Automotive’s new purpose-built factory in Leeds. It’s a ‘celebration of 50 years of British sports car manufacturing by the company’, and has been ‘designed as the base for a new generation of Ginetta sports cars’.

The G50 uses a traditional recipe of a steel space frame chassis with glass fibre panelling over the top. The 3.5 litre Ford V6 engine – from the US market Ford Edge – is mounted at the front and drives the rear wheels through a Quaife five speed sequential gearbox. It’s a compact and light car: weight is projected to be a little over 800kg and the car is 4m long and 1.2m high. Useful numbers when you consider the V6 should knock out around 300bhp. The price of a G50 is set to be around the £35,000 mark.

3.5 litre Ford V6 produces 300bhp

As well as road versions and cars for the new FIA GT4 racing championship, Ginetta will be launching a new one-make racing series next year known as the G50 Cup. This is aimed at bridging the gap between single-make sports car racing such as the current Ginetta G20 championship – and GT cars such as the new GT4 Championship, GT3 and GT2 racing. The focus will be on keeping running costs to a minimum by using control tyres, control fuel and low maintenance costs. Ginetta will offer a spares and support service at all race and test events.

The series will consist of 10 race weekends, with eight events confirmed to be supporting the SRO F3/GT package alongside the current 'G20' Texaco Havoline Ginetta Championship. Two stand alone, long distance events are also planned with a ‘substantial’ prize fund and TV coverage guaranteed by Ginetta.

New G50 has a menacing stance

Lawrence Tomlinson, Chairman of LNT Automotive said: “We’ve designed the G50 as a stepping stone for GT drivers. Production of the first 30 cars is well under way with a mixture of cup, road and GT4 cars available from early 2008."

Further news and details will be announced over the coming months as the race car design is completed and goes into full time production.

G50 celebrates the marque's 50th birthday

[Springbok]

Just what TVR should have produced.

[Sonic Nonsense]

Springbok said:

Just what TVR should have produced.

Damn, beat me to it! I was going to say it looks quite TVR-ish. By no means a bad thing though, I really like it!

[Snoggledog]

Springbok said:

Just what TVR should have produced.

[Curator]

Looks just like a Tamora to me - no bad thing though

[tstain]

back end is like the new marcos (TSO?)

[Foolish Dave]

Looks very much like a Ginetta to me - most of the TVR/Marcos hints mentioned are generic sports cars hints from the 60s - i.e. Ginetta...!

[dinkel]

C'mon guys, ever seen a G in the flesh! It's small . . . TVR is bigger.

Good effort. Looks look and 800 kgs with the V6 should go proper quick.

[Hendry]

Brilliant! I hope they managed to pull of producing a decent roadspec car.

I imagine it will be spartan though. Likely to have the same apppeal to those used to the slighly more cosseting TVR life...?

[MidnightDriver]

This is the Tamora, and fezza 612's bastard love child.............no wait i think the marcos tso has that honour

[Tonto]

dinkel said:

C'mon guys, ever seen a G in the flesh! It's small . . . TVR is bigger.

Good effort. Looks look and 800 kgs with the V6 should go proper quick.

Same length and height as a Tamora.

Edited by Tonto on Thursday 24th May 16:34

[Kieran'07]

I like it! Looks good, handy spec and not too expensive.

[Mafioso]

Hasn't Ginetta struggled to sell cars in great volume though!?

[AlexRWD]

Curator said:

Looks just like a Tamora to me - no bad thing though

Agreed - particularly side profile of the nose.

If it comes out with those figures and at that price, they could be onto a winner! - oh, and they need to make a convertible

[ParanoidAndroid]

Would look good with the roof chopped off too.

Edited to say: AlexRWD beat me to it!

Edited by ParanoidAndroid on Thursday 24th May 17:09

[Zigs]

Don't worry about what it looks like (i.e. TVR etc), it looks good. The Russian gave away the £30K sports car market claiming it no longer existed. I hope this proves how much of a business-nob he really is.

I'd get one

[E39M52003]

I want one, I want one, I want one. What a great tool to take down to the Nordschleife to really embarrass some expensive exotica! 800kg and 300hp? Wow!

I can just see a road legal (for UK track days) race spec one, on the back of a trailer behind my M5, in Estoril Blue so they match, driving down to Nurburg for some shakedown testing of my own.

Well, I can dream anyway.....

[rimmer]

is it me or does it look like a radio control car.A 3.5 litre Ford V6 engine in a radio control car would be fun wouldnt it.

[RTH]

A Ginetta that looks really nice , can they really get it under 800kgs?

If so that could be a serious car.

[jimtbg]

just look's like a TVR and TVR should have made it

[ATG]

If they can keep it to that weight and that price and don't stuff any other major factors up, then they really deserve to have a winner on thier hands ... and it will make some of TVR's strategic decisions look even more lamentable.