How big is the UK kit car market?
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I think outside of Caterham, Westfield , Ultima & Robin Hood most of the other manufacturers would count their annual sales in single figures to low teens to twenties. You only have to think how long some of the companies have been going & how few of their cars you see on the roads or even at shows.
When I had closer links with MK, 2-3 years back they where doing well into 3 figures a year, they have since moved to larger premiss's and employ more staff, never seems quiet when I go over there, always plenty of work on.
They have diversified into trikes as well to over the last couple of years, most of their trike work is word of mouth, they don't advertise at all, guess trikes was a natural progression from BEC's which they do a lot of.
They have diversified into trikes as well to over the last couple of years, most of their trike work is word of mouth, they don't advertise at all, guess trikes was a natural progression from BEC's which they do a lot of.
Russ Bost said:
I think outside of Caterham, Westfield , Ultima & Robin Hood most of the other manufacturers would count their annual sales in single figures to low teens to twenties. You only have to think how long some of the companies have been going & how few of their cars you see on the roads or even at shows.
Ultima?They might be on a lot of peoples wish lists but they are price prohibitive to the vast majority.
I would think Pilgrim have sold way more of their Cobra clones over the years than Ultima have their cars.
I would also not be surprised if all of the above put together had not sold as many cars as Dutton did in their day.
Dax currently produce over 50 kits per year.(Cobra + Rush) and have sold over 3000 in total AFAIK.
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