Ginetta has today confirmed that an all-new roadgoing supercar is set to be revealed by the Yorkshire-based firm in the coming weeks.
Highlights of the new car are set to include a carbon fibre tub chassis, full carbon fibre body, a race derived 600+ bhp naturally aspirated V8 alloy engine designed and manufactured in-house, sequential gearbox and race-derived aerodynamic package.
The teaser images released by Ginetta show some common styling elements to their current range of GT race cars but with a radically different front end.
Ginetta has dabbled with road car production since the company was bought by Lawrence Tomlinson in 2005 but has not, to this point under his ownership, embarked upon a full ‘clean sheet of paper’ programme to design, develop and produce road cars.
Ginetta does though have a long history of manufacturing lightweight, high-power road cars to production based race cars including the G55 GT4 (producing almost 400 to date, more than any other
global manufacturer) and prototype race cars.
The new supercar programme embraces the technology and precision engineering used in the company’s race programmes to create “a true driver’s car.”
Chairman Lawrence Tomlinson commented: “We’ve come a long way in 60 years but we still believe Ginetta has great untapped potential. In the 1960s our G10 was a giant killer on and off the track, regularly beating Jaguar E-Types. Sixty years on, we’re again applying knowledge and technology from our racing programmes to build an uncompromised yet utterly capable road-going supercar.”
