The Little Car Company – what would you like to see next?
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Liking the Bentley Blower, but surely in a 4WD guise a Land Rover (my LR beard is only stubble so reluctant to offer which one of the Land Rover Defender / Series I or II to be 'the One')
If you want for the kids - how about the Speed McQueen from Cars ?
Otherwise Porsches are going to get the Dads on board and cheque writing.
If you want for the kids - how about the Speed McQueen from Cars ?
Otherwise Porsches are going to get the Dads on board and cheque writing.
d. One day he found it parked facing the wrong way outside his house, so he bought another one facing the right way. LOADS. LOADSAMONEEEYYY!!OLDBENZ said:
Without wishing to be Captain Obvious if these are not toys but scale models intended for adult use there is a small problem with suggesting fixed roof cars for production (unless of course you are similarly built to scale).
Exactly why I suggested a GT40 - you’d have to be a silly small. I think open top is the only way to do this without making huge sacrifice to what the ethos is.
Race cars of pedigree would be a fun market (for the Uber rich).
The obvious ones have to be E Type (loads of wealthy owners), AC Cobra, Blower Bentley (shift a few at Goodwood) and Ferrari 250.
When you showed the Aston I was surprised you didn’t 3D print some door handles and have fake door shuts. I know you don’t like fake bits but I personally feel it would have finished the look.
When you showed the Aston I was surprised you didn’t 3D print some door handles and have fake door shuts. I know you don’t like fake bits but I personally feel it would have finished the look.
TheLittleCarCo said:
Skyedriver said:
A sort of GT26.8 ?
Sorry, not interested PH advertising (free apparently) expensive toys for very rich kids.
We're dead serious about going beyond the more expensive little cars.Sorry, not interested PH advertising (free apparently) expensive toys for very rich kids.
You might be interested to know we've recruited four of the old TVR engineering team have joined the company to develop the cars and future projects.
And we're trying to make them as accessible as possible in the future as they are bloody expensive at the moment, but we're working on it.
In fact, drop us an email through the website and come and have a test drive at Bicester if you're passing?
Edited by TheLittleCarCo on Tuesday 27th October 20:14
lol64 said:
Probably not your thing, but what about kits that people can build, i.e. weld / assemble / paint / endlessly fettle. I’d love a long term project for me & granddaughter #1 and there must be endless old gits like me?
Have you seen https://choppedwagons.bigcartel.com/
I’d love one of these - don’t have kids so would look a bit weird.
Breadvan72 said:
OP, in the list of votes above, you have incorrectly listed me as voting for two types of car. I have not done so. I have no views on which products your company should develop. I am about as far outside your target market as it is possible to be. I have no doubt that products of this kind could easily sell in runs of 1000 or more - the 1% of the 1% is quite a large group. I don't understand why your company is so coy about advertising. There is nothing wrong with advertising, and this thread is an advertisement or at least a form of marketing. When a website says "Survey Monkey would like to ask you some questions about your experience buying a widget from Widgetco" , that's a form of marketing. It's not a shameful practice.
I've removed you from that vote - apologies there.We're not coy about advertising, but this isn't what we're trying to do here. I really do want to know what people would like us develop next so it's customer research. We advertise elsewhere.
We're a small start up company and if the team keep listening to me (which they do rarely anyway) we'll end up with a skewed old portfolio.
OLDBENZ said:
Without wishing to be Captain Obvious if these are not toys but scale models intended for adult use there is a small problem with suggesting fixed roof cars for production (unless of course you are similarly built to scale).
Its a very fair point. There are a few we'd love to do (McLaren F1 / Porsche 917 (non-Can Am)) but we'd have to make them convertible and that sort of goes against our authenticity angle. Mikebentley said:
The obvious ones have to be E Type (loads of wealthy owners), AC Cobra, Blower Bentley (shift a few at Goodwood) and Ferrari 250.
When you showed the Aston I was surprised you didn’t 3D print some door handles and have fake door shuts. I know you don’t like fake bits but I personally feel it would have finished the look.
Mike, it was one we went back and forward on. We originally had planned vinyl transfers for the outlines of the doors, but with someone inside it looked weird they were sat so far back behind the end of the door. Eventually we made the call with Aston to have them plain all the way along. We also looked at indends / a recess in the panels to hint at the door profile, but with the carbon fibre body it was hard to get the definition we needed out of the mould. It would have been a bit too soft / rounded. When you showed the Aston I was surprised you didn’t 3D print some door handles and have fake door shuts. I know you don’t like fake bits but I personally feel it would have finished the look.
The door handles we looked at, but we couldn't come up with any decent repurposing. Any suggestions?
lol64 said:
Probably not your thing, but what about kits that people can build, i.e. weld / assemble / paint / endlessly fettle. I’d love a long term project for me & granddaughter #1 and there must be endless old gits like me?
We are 100% looking at this, and trying to get the cost below (£10,000). We have some early designs we're working on - no welding needed, but paint / assemble. Maybe even a "road-legal" kit?Once we've got the next 2 models released we should be able to focus on it.
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