RE: Ginetta G40 R | Spotted

[Leftfootwonder]

I've always liked the thought of these. Something to hammer endlessly around the track and not worry about ruining the daily. I appreciate they are light, but I didn't realise they had such weedy engines.... I wonder if they'd drop the new 2.0 Turbo Civic Type R engine in there?

[Cotty]

Leftfootwonder said:

I've always liked the thought of these. Something to hammer endlessly around the track and not worry about ruining the daily. I appreciate they are light, but I didn't realise they had such weedy engines.... I wonder if they'd drop the new 2.0 Turbo Civic Type R engine in there?

The base model has more power than the S2 Elise i owned. Its the same concept low weight doesn't need huge power to shift.
Ill take mine in white
Autocar review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiqFGZuKtXU

[konark]

Just be sure to avoid any speed humps.

[SpudLink]

chelme said:

... from a design and engineering perspective seemed like a vehicle built in a shed.

“How it’s made”
https://youtu.be/X1PKEEWrVrI

[Water Fairy]

Always liked these. When I retire in a few years one of these or a track prepped Elise is on the cards.

[unsprung]

Cotty said:

Autocar review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiqFGZuKtXU

A delightful talk and drive there. Thanks for that.

SpudLink said:

“How it’s made”
https://youtu.be/X1PKEEWrVrI

Illuminating. Thank you.

US PHers: You'll need to use a VPN to see this geo-blocked video.

Also... the voiceover announcer is, imo, insufferable. He's ideal for a late-night television advert, but not, imo, for the matter-of-fact context of a how-to documentary.

His classical "buy this now" style of pronunciation is very like that in the following parody:

iPod Flea
https://youtu.be/kJPD-pyETTc

[thegreenhell]

unsprung said:

SpudLink said:

“How it’s made”
https://youtu.be/X1PKEEWrVrI

Illuminating. Thank you.

US PHers: You'll need to use a VPN to see this geo-blocked video.

Also... the voiceover announcer is, imo, insufferable. He's ideal for a late-night television advert, but not, imo, for the matter-of-fact context of a how-to documentary.

It almost sounds like a computer-generated voice.

Also, I hate the way Americans pronounce a T that isn't there at the beginning of the word chassis.

[unsprung]

thegreenhell said:

I hate the way Americans pronounce a T that isn't there at the beginning of the word chassis.

We can set you up, Clockwork Orange style, with an endless loop of US lips and their pronunciations.

Actually, the UK pronunciation of chassis, to the US ear, sounds effete and/or French.

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[R400TVR]

Always loved Ginetta, from the G33 V8 up to the recent G60.

[Krikkit]

SpudLink said:

chelme said:

... from a design and engineering perspective seemed like a vehicle built in a shed.

“How it’s made”
https://youtu.be/X1PKEEWrVrI

I went to the PH Sunday Service last year at Ginetta for the tour - it's an industrial unit (so you could call it a "shed"), but when you see it you know they mean business.

On one floor you've got all the chassis being welded and jigged together, then upstairs they're assembling a G58 or LMP1 car and making carbon bits to go into the autoclave.

[Martin_Hx]

Krikkit said:

I went to the PH Sunday Service last year at Ginetta for the tour - it's an industrial unit (so you could call it a "shed"), but when you see it you know they mean business.

On one floor you've got all the chassis being welded and jigged together, then upstairs they're assembling a G58 or LMP1 car and making carbon bits to go into the autoclave.

Yes i went to this as well, it was a brilliant tour!