What is this car?

[North West Tom]

Saw this today, is it rare?

[Cock Womble 7]

I've never seen one before, so yes.


I'm guessing a kit of some sort. Can we play the "Spot The Styling Cue" game?

I'm seeing:

MR2
McLaren F1 (no, seriously)
Elise
Dino

any more?

Edited by Cock Womble 7 on Saturday 4th June 17:37

[Bonefish Blues]

No idea either, but it's rather a nice little car.

[GeraldSmith]

It's a Phantom Vortex GTR, I think

[Bonefish Blues]

GeraldSmith said:

It's a Phantom Vortex GTR, I think

So it is!

[Shaw Tarse]

it's a Phantom!

[wildcat45]

Found thus

http://www.pistonheads.com/doc.asp?c=112&i=528...

[98elise]

Been around a few years, and is the sort of car the kit car industry should be producing.

Nice original design, just taking a few design ideas from cars rather than a copy

Edited by 98elise on Saturday 4th June 17:48

[GeraldSmith]

I've seen one in a deep red and one in black, both looked a lot better than that orange

[Yazza54]

Was looking at one last year as a possible option but it didn't seem to fit in anywhere. Quick but not rapid. Would appear a possible useable all rounder until you see one in person and realise there's about enough room to smuggle a stick of celery across the border. Nice enough to look at but not amazing.

[North West Tom]

I did see a hint of McLaren F1 in there.

[Westy Pre-Lit]

Cock Womble 7 said:

I'm seeing:

MR2
McLaren F1 (no, seriously)
Elise
Dino

any more?

GT40

Looks too much of a mish mash for my liking, it confuses me.

[anonymous-user]

Front good,
Side good,
rear, oh dear...... ;-)


With a better set of rear lights that would look pretty cohesive i think.

[rallycross]

thanks for this I saw one of these on the M6 last month (going in the other direction) and I couldnt work out what it was, only got a glimpse of it and looked very similar to the new mclaren, now i know!

[OwenK]

Phantom (now Vortex) GTR as previously stated. Really nice looking car in the flesh - saw one at Stoneleigh kit car show recently - that one has shocking wheels, though.

There's a PHer who did a build/resto/update of one, Ricola I think, here's pics from his site stickered up for Le Mans:




Not a fan of the aftermarket rear lights but think otherwise his looks really nice, he did a lot of work bringing it up to scratch too. He has a build diary on his site:
http://www.ricola.co.uk/


Some others from his site:


Photoshop with RS4 alloys

Edited by OwenK on Sunday 5th June 14:23