UK Kit Car Maker Wins £2m Grant To Develop Hybrid Sports Car

Great British Sports Cars only makes one model, albeit based on a Caterham Seven-type body and with almost any engine you like, but a cash injection means a second model, a petrol-electric prototype, is on the horizon

Matt Kimberley

12 Apr 2017

UK Kit Car Maker Wins £2m Grant To Develop Hybrid Sports Car

A small company that builds Caterham-style kit cars out of a tubular chassis has been granted over £2 million to develop a lightweight hybrid sports car.

Great British Sports Cars (GBSC), based in Broughton in Nottinghamshire, has won the £2.1 million grant as part of a wider government spend on new and emerging technologies. The new money will help the company design and test a petrol-electric hybrid version of its Seven-type sports car, with a target of 100 miles in EV mode in real-world driving and a range-extending engine for longer trips.

At present the company only builds the GBS Zero, which has the Seven-type body but a bespoke frame that allows the engine to be mounted further back towards the driver for better weight distribution.

GBSC can install any one of a dozen or so engine options, with ready-made engine mounts and exhausts for everything from Pinto and old Ford Crossflow units to the F20C Honda S2000 unit, which must be staggeringly good. There are also options for motorbike engines, V6s and even rotaries.

We’re looking forward to seeing what the company can do, because the idea sounds pretty amazing.

Comments

Dodge just proved you dont need
a hybrid to make a fast car…..you just need 14 teaser trailers

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Ayyy

and one seat optional: big balls

The question is will it slide?

If they can install an
engine,can i bring a thing called a LS7 V8? Would makeit the first Ls swapped Hybrid

Oh, I don’t think so

This is gonna be good

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Pinto engine? Sounds like a recipe for disaster. Better have a revised fuel system…

Up next a NASA-engined one?
Please?

No puns please

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