Thursday 20th September 2007

Farbio GTS Goes On Sale

Brit-built baby GT available to order

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Farbio - silly name, interesting car

Bath-based sportscar maker Farbio has announced that their GTS model is now in production. Based on a space frame chassis and cloaked in a carbon fibre body, the normally aspirated 3-litre V6 GTS will set you back £59,925, while the supercharged version costs £71,675.

The basic GTS will sprint from 0-60 in around 4.8 seconds, while the supercharger helps the forced-induction shaves around a second from that time, despite adding 18 kilos to the standard cars 1048kg kerbweight.

Standard kit includes AP brakes and adjustable Eibach coil overs to keep things on the straight and narrow, while on the inside, the Farbio isn’t a stripped-out track attacker: customers get Sparco reclining seats, which reportedly allow for a 6’6” driver; a touch-screen sat nav and air conditioning as standard. They even reckon that the boot will swallow a full set of golf clubs.

Farbio currently has an 8 month waiting list for UK customers, and claims to have an £11million order book with customers from the UK, USA, Scandinavia and Thailand, which should keep them occupied for the next three years.

[cvegas]

Looks stunning! Supercharged version has a power to weight that exceeds a Ferrari F430.

Check out:
http://www.farbiosportscars.com/index.asp

[leerdam23]

"allow for a 6’6” driver"

Need to go have a look at this then. If it really is big enough for a tall driver then there will be no trouble selling them.

(Take Note Nobel, Lotus, Ariel, Caterham/Westfield etc)

Edited by leerdam23 on Thursday 20th September 11:52

[Fordo]

Thats the sort of car Lotus should be making. Pretty light for a car with that power. I wonder what the build quality is like?

[clonmult]

Fordo said:

Thats the sort of car Lotus should be making. Pretty light for a car with that power. I wonder what the build quality is like?

But they won't, will they?

The car looks absolutely incredible, but its naming rivals the Gumpbert ...

Can you imagine a bunch o' blokes having a chat about their cars?

"Aye, I picked up my 430 last week"
"The GT3 goes lovely in this weather"
"I've got a Farbio .... okay, I'll get me coat"

[jon-]

What were they thinking using these wheels on the website car!!!



Appealing to the footballers perhaps

[Sundeep]

from the front it looks like a Porsche Carrera GT !

[peteA]

"Aye, I picked up my 430 last week"
"The GT3 goes lovely in this weather"
"I've got a Farbio .... okay, I'll get me coat"

[/quote]

Totally agree

The 'sweet spot' for 'specialist cars' is in the £20 to £40K brackett and they need to offer something a little different...Atom...or be established...Caterham...or be wild/extrovert/special in a way a mass produced product cannot...or all of the above.

Admire the guys for trying and the car looks good (if a bit predictable) but in that price bracket there are some pretty tasty motors available.

Having said that I hope it works out for them

[Mr Whippy]

clonmult said:

"I've got a Farbio .... okay, I'll get me coat"

Doesn't help that the name changed from Farboud, which was kinda cool, to Farbio, sounds like some Dutch porn star...

Dave

[g4ry13]

Looks a bit like the Ascari KZ1 to me.

[Witchfinder]

clonmult said:

"I've got a Farbio .... okay, I'll get me coat"

Knowing that you paid a LOT less than the others for your car should soften the blow, though. £71K for the supercharged version looks like a performance bargain!

[havoc]

g4ry13 said:

Looks a bit like the Ascari KZ1 to me.

Ascari looks a lot better...but costs a lot more...

[CTE]

Lovely car, but whats the point in yet another mini supercar. Seems to me there quite a number around which all look very similar?

[waynepixel]

jon- said:

What were they thinking using these wheels on the website car!!!



Appealing to the footballers perhaps

More to the point, what where they thinking useing that website to promote the car?

Edited by waynepixel on Thursday 20th September 12:52

[MitchT]

clonmult said:

The car looks absolutely incredible, but its naming rivals the Gumpbert ...

Can you imagine a bunch o' blokes having a chat about their cars?

"Aye, I picked up my 430 last week"
"The GT3 goes lovely in this weather"
"I've got a Farbio .... okay, I'll get me coat"

Indeed. One guy has a Ferrari, one guy has a Porsche and the other guy has a car that everyone assumes is a Skoda because they haven't heard of Farbio. Farboud sounded more exotic and the old logo was better too. Great car though with a refreshingly sensible price! Makes the E92 M3's price look like a typo!!

[Kieran'07]

Decent looks, performance and price. I like it! The name is a bit silly though, it would have been nice if they'd come up with something more British sounding rather than Italian, or whatever.

[peterpsg]

It looks decent...

But what's the point of using CF if it's not stressed? Just so you can charge more?
I mean, it's not like it's that much lighter than GRP, and if you're going to cover it all anyway, why bother, with the extra hassle?

If you had a proper use for it, i.e. a stressed central tub with front and rear space frames, then I would understand... I mean even a recent sub £20k kit car has that level of technology already, albeit the tub is in GRP... but still...

[anonymous-user]

am i alone in thinking it looks crap? the side scoop is just wierd and the rest is bland and awkward.

11m quid order book? yeah right! 200 deposits?

[Fire99]

Yup.. i like it.. Name is a bit odd but i'm really not fussed if people give me stick for the name.. When they see it they'll change their tune..

Personally i think all these Low-Volume cars should get a bit of praise.. Nice to have a few performance options other than the usual Porsche, Lambo, Ferarri alikes.

[crbox]

fbrs said:

am i alone in thinking it looks crap? the side scoop is just wierd and the rest is bland and awkward.

11m quid order book? yeah right! 200 deposits?

No you're not alone. I don't want to rubbish the car. It's not an easy endevour, but I think the side pod detail looks simply awful.
I also think the styling on the new Noble is equally imperfect.
Don't these guys realise that appearance is one of the primaries. Material aside, it costs the same to tool up for an pig ugly bodyshell, as an brutally elegant one, like the Veryon.

Edited by crbox on Thursday 20th September 13:16

[Mattygooner]

It looks remarkably average, to much like a kit, performance appears to be ok, the price is ok.

British Design the best and most beautiful cars of all time but i have not seen many examples recently, Aston aside.

£50K is a BIG market place. Older porsche turbos, 355s, better looking nobles, Ultimas. Z06 Vettees, there is alot of fantastic stuff for 50 large and this unfortunately would not even be on my radar.

Good luck to them, hopefully this could be the start of something special and another British Manufacturer.