Westfield Sports cars acquistion

[davidgh]

westfield and gtm sportscar club

Nope          

So, a GTM is not a "get out of J" card then?

[Mark Stanton]

QUOTE

So, a GTM is not a "get out of J" card then?

Certainly not Mr H           in a few years perhaps the GTM club may organise a sprint and Hillclimb championship     maybe one day all kit car clubs might just organise a championship for their own relevant marque of car                  

[gordonandmaureen]

i would agree the aquisition of gtm is a logical move but since both companies are under the same roof do they really need 3 directors ie 2 md,s & one non  exec, director, sounds expensive to me!

[Blatman]

How do you know how much they're being paid?

[custardtart]

For me the interesting bit is the composite monocoque chassis, don't know what they're like in reality but it's impressive on paper ie. 1/3 stiffer than a lotus elise monocoque and v. light at 95kg, the lotus is 65kg but you have to add the bodywork.

using this type of chassis could make some really exciting cars - imagine a westy with a chassis more than twice as stiff or a 4 seater coupe weighing 600kg?

at the moment it's really only expensive supercars that use composite monocoques, for various reasons it's difficult to mass produce but it's ideal for low volume and would really set the kit car industry apart from mainstream.  

[Sir Greg]

The KTM X-bow uses a carbon fibre monocoque too. It's not hellish cheap but it's certainly not at supercar money.

As the materials/tooling/development costs come down it looks like it could be the way ahead for low volume sportscar manufacturers.

[Guest]

so did the westfield FW400 years ago.

[Blatman]

FW400 was wet lay up, IIRC. If ever a car was worth resurrecting and "updating", that it. I'd love to see couple of FW's with Busa and Duratec/Zetec SE engines in...