RE: Ginetta delivers first G60

[kambites]

DonkeyApple said:

How many cars were included in the sale of Farbio?

I seem to remember reading that this actually shares no parts with the Farbio any more.

[Alx323]

Lovely car but:


Exasperated car is exasperated. Frustrated with it's own drawn out birth!

[dandarez]

What's all this about waiting for the G60 to be tested?
It was by Sutcliffe in Autocar last Oct... he loved it, in fact he said it left him stunned.

So much so he said it beat the Evora and Audi and the Autocar front cover spelled it out.
Perhaps casual readers read it wrong and didn't spot Britain's 911 was a Ginetta!

[Ozzie Osmond]

I like the idea of that Ginetta although it looks a bit pricey. If Lotus ever get any Exige V6s built, Ginetta will have to get their price down very swiftly.

[Raja]

dandarez said:

What's all this about waiting for the G60 to be tested?
It was by Sutcliffe in Autocar last Oct... he loved it, in fact he said it left him stunned.

So much so he said it beat the Evora and Audi and the Autocar front cover spelled it out.
Perhaps casual readers read it wrong and didn't spot Britain's 911 was a Ginetta!

Was that not a pre production model that still needed a few things ironed out? I remember watching the autocar video

http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-video/ginetta-g60-vid...

[sebhaque]

A friend of mine owns a Farbio GTS:


IIRC it has 650bhp and certainly feels like it. He knew Arash Farboud so I'm guessing that's how he got his mitts on it.

[Ftumpch]

I'm glad someone thought of a better name for it than "Farbio".

[JakeR]

I've seen the development cars at the factory. Lots of carbon fibre. Read the weight figure again. It's very, very light for a car of this ilk. Which IMHO, is a very, very good thing. Exige v6 will be 1200kg. A bit of a lard-arse in comparison....

[griffdude]

sebhaque said:

A friend of mine owns a Farbio GTS:


IIRC it has 650bhp and certainly feels like it. He knew Arash Farboud so I'm guessing that's how he got his mitts on it.

EDLT said:

griffdude said:

A friend of mine has one of these Farbood things. Powered by a twin turbo V6 Audi engine. It goes pretty well & looks much better in the flesh.

The article says there are only three in existence, the other two being owned by Ginetta and powered by a Ford engines

Yep, that's his car. He got hold of one that was about 30% complete & spent ages building it.

[kambites]

JakeR said:

I've seen the development cars at the factory. Lots of carbon fibre. Read the weight figure again. It's very, very light for a car of this ilk. Which IMHO, is a very, very good thing. Exige v6 will be 1200kg. A bit of a lard-arse in comparison....

I thought the Exige S was stated at 1080kg? Still, I suspect this is bigger and more practicable than an Exige.

[DonkeyApple]

kambites said:

DonkeyApple said:

How many cars were included in the sale of Farbio?

I seem to remember reading that this actually shares no parts with the Farbio any more.

I must confess to not having looked underneath one of the new one but I doubt that all the parts have been replaced.

I do find it interesting that there is a fanfare regarding the sale of one of the old development cars.

[XTR2Turbo]

kambites said:

DonkeyApple said:

How many cars were included in the sale of Farbio?

I seem to remember reading that this actually shares no parts with the Farbio any more.

I understood it was a minus number. That is they had taken chunky deposits on cars that were never finished. In fairness to Ginetta I understand that they are honouring the deposits. I assume the German's car was one he had all but paid for before Farbio went belly up.

It's good to see Ginetta apparently doing well but the fit and finish required on a £70k car does seem to be stretching their current capabilities based on what I have seen to date.

[andyps]

DonkeyApple said:

I must confess to not having looked underneath one of the new one but I doubt that all the parts have been replaced.

I do find it interesting that there is a fanfare regarding the sale of one of the old development cars.

The quote from Ginetta was that they replaced so much it would have been easier to start off with a clean sheet of paper, but they hadn't done that and probably wouldn't have started had they known that to be the requirement.

[F1GTRUeno]

I wish Ginetta well, truly but I've seen Matchbox cars look higher quality than that.

It could very well actually be very well made but it certainly doesn't give off the impression and for 70k...you'd have to be mad to buy one.

[DonkeyApple]

F1GTRUeno said:

I wish Ginetta well, truly but I've seen Matchbox cars look higher quality than that.

It could very well actually be very well made but it certainly doesn't give off the impression and for 70k...you'd have to be mad to buy one.

Strangely, when I test drove one as a Farbio one of the things I noticed was just who good the panel gaps were and how solid the car felt.

£70k for a CF wagon just doesn't seem at all expensive. I would say that they are slitting their throats to find volume as I'm sure there is very little margin in that number.

[andyps]

I find it surprising on a forum which is largely about the pleasures generated by cars for driving that so many people seem concerned about the fit and finish of a car rather than the driving characteristics. If a bigger panel gap than might be the case on another car doesn't affect the way something drives, but the oily bits make it better I know which I would choose.

Is it Pistonheads - speed matters or Pistonheads - fit and finish matter?

[JakeR]

kambites said:

I thought the Exige S was stated at 1080kg? Still, I suspect this is bigger and more practicable than an Exige.

I was told 1200kg by a Lotus main dealer...

[Roo]

Two cars. One orange, one red. One LHD, one RHD.

Same reg number.

[Luke.]

Roo said:

Two cars. One orange, one red. One LHD, one RHD.

Same reg number.

What does that tell you?

[JakeR]

anonymous said:

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Sad, but, in all probability, true.