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Last night I had the pleasure of a guided tour of the new Ginetta car factory which is about 10 miles from where I live, along with the guys & gals from the Wetherby classic car club.

The company was bought out by LNT group in 2005 and they appear to be putting a good bit of investment into it, purpose built 60,000sqft unit loads on top notch gear, and they're building some really nice cars. Mostly supporting the race series they run, but also they're working on a new road car to hopefully be released next year, still in pre-production testing form it was a little rough round the edges but you can see from the development that its going to be a really nice car, based on the G50 race car it looks roughly like this...

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A lot of the guys that came along were saying how they'd love one of the cars, stuff that I'd just love to work there building them !

http://www.ginettacars.com
 
Always had a soft spot for Ginetta's ever since a school freind of mine had a '71 G4. It was absolutely immaculate in dark metallic blue, but concealed a Holbay Screamer (nee F3 version of a 105E 997cc Ford) bored out to 1100cc and good for 125hp at the rear wheels on twin 45DCOE's. Came with a racing clutch too, so it was virtually impossible to drive in town - spinning the rear wheels was more effective at getting away from rest than trying to get the clutch to feed through the low revs flat spots! Once had the hood frame collapse on us at a hundred and quite a lot on the M4, to leave us enveloped in the hood fabric!

Chris
 
The new G50 uses an american ford v6 3.5 ltr making 300bhp, taken from the Ford "Edge", apparently this is a standard engine that ford make for them and tweaks a bit for the 300bhp, not too highly tuned, so is very reliable.

The lower models use Ford Zetecs 1.8 or 1.4 ltr
 
i owned a ginetta along time ago not sure but i think it was the G15 all imp running gear 998cc jack night 5 speed box twin 40,s went like stink and stuck to the road like the previrbiale brown smelly stuff to a wet blanket
 
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