Wednesday 6th March 2002

Venturi Fetish

New sports car from revived French manufacturer

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[Roadrunner]

"they reckon there will be no competition"

errr, have they heard of the elise?

[thom]

better than nothing

[stig]

It looks like the bastard child of a VX220, Elise and Pagoni Zonda!

[PetrolTed]

The front is a bit VX220 but it's pretty novel apart from that. Give it a break guys - look at all the other crap being shown in Geneva. People would notice if you drove down the street in a car like this.

[thom]

It reminds me of the Tommy Kaira cars...

[Stig]

quote:
The front is a bit VX220 but it's pretty novel apart from that. Give it a break guys - look at all the other crap being shown in Geneva. People would notice if you drove down the street in a car like this.

and laugh...

[Stig]

When it could look like this:

www.esbconsult.com.au/ogden/locost/mirror/fraffobelva.htm

[thom]

quote:
When it could look like this:

www.esbconsult.com.au/ogden/locost/mirror/fraffobelva.htm

[MEMSDesign]

Like it.

[GregE240]

I'll echo Sir Ted's comments (you've been knighted for services to the online motoring community BTW, Ted)

This is a new sportscar, from an adventurous manufacturer. I like it, and it's affordable as well. We may all drool over lovelies like the Zonda et al, but barring our numbers coming up, or someone else's number coming up, we're never going to own one. Cars like this are affordable. And that's great.

It has huge prescence, and the design is really rather nice, I think. We're in for an exciting time in this part of the sector and car's such as Venturi's have laid the groundwork for others to follow. Bring on the F Type !

Greg

[RCs2]

Can't help but notice the Elise/VX ovetones, but all competition is good to keep Lotus on their toes. Goofd luck to them, it's not bad.

[rthierry]

Like the idea, like the shape, but still numerous hurdles to be jumped though. My main concern would be lousy build quality and how much Renault/Peugeot plastics are they going to re-use - rather than using TVR innovative and creative approach. One last point, a car like this need an engine that's a bit special and for me, it just can't be a four pot!

[Roadrunner]

rthierry - exactly my problem with the elise. If they made a version with an M3 engine for circa 10k premium I'd be in there like a shot!

[hoganscrogan]

Like the look of it price is good too. Would consider over an elise if it was engineered well.

Stig - fraffobelva - you think it looks good?!?!?

[dans]

looks like that plastic pig FBS are making, not that impressive really

[stig]

quote:
Like the look of it price is good too. Would consider over an elise if it was engineered well.

Stig - fraffobelva - you think it looks good?!?!?

I think it looks better than the Venturi. I'm not beating Raffo's door down to buy one though.

[ATG]

don#t know about this really being in a new niche. but the more affordable sports cars the better. there might be some crticisms on this forum, but we#re splitting hairs. its not a multipla and its not some bleeding off roader mess. good luck to them.

[Farmer]

got a touch of Renault Spider in there somewhere , a good effort and targetted more realisticly than the otherwise cool old Venturi.
Good luck to them

(PS I've told you before the Multipla is so ugly it's beutifull don't knock it till you try it !ACTVATE FORCE FIELD , PREPARE FOR ATTACK !!!)

[jpf]

Woof!

[rjt89]

Naff name...