Stuart, after visiting your website earlier, please sort out one of the biggest tragedies in the industry... You have the skills with the MX5 to make it work, just scale it up a few % to make it fit....


Aeon Epona, too small and impractical for it's Locost chassis, but a supercharged MX5 would work...

That is a nice looking car but it would be very easy to spend 50k on a full scale pattern and moulds, and that is just the start, chassis engineering is expensive too. Then you need a demo car and marketing budgets and there is a long delay from day one before/if your first payment comes in. Often potential customers are afraid of parting with money to the new kid on the block.
The big question is, would it sell in large enough numbers at a price level that would support the required investment?
I am selling my X5 Coupe/Superlight project inc moulds and 2 demo cars, a spare chassis and production rights for 25k. That is well below cost but I need the space for my new project.

Thank you for mentioning it, I did speak to Gary who designed it but as far as I know it only got to the styling stage and a small model was made. The low front would be lost if it were MX5 based as there needs to be a bonnet clearance above the cam cover and plenum chamber of 165mm above the centre of the front tyres.
Many designs we see are not easily transferable to reality and often loose their appeal as they are lifted from the paper or are adapted to "fit" and comply.

Here is another student design model. The guy was looking to compliment TVR's range

I thought there was a rolling chassis built too.

I seem to remember that it was going to be based on a 7 type chassis but that would involve considerable modifications or it may end up flexing which is not good on a full bodied car

There was also mention of Aeon developing a bespoke chassis for it, rather large thread running on LCB