Weirdest kit car replica ever?!

[Emeye]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Banham-Kit-Car-X99-Azur-...



I have no idea why anyone would do this, or who would buy it now? You could buy a real Audi TT for not much more than that!

[Jw Vw]

That looks like something a four year old designed. Bloody terrible.

[kambites]

The Bat was never meant to be a TT replica (I think it actually predates the TT?); it seems that the X99 is just a mildly updated version with TT headlights and some idiot has stuck an Audi badge on the front of that one.

[Emeye]

It looks like a poorly Ford StreetKa - surely you can get one of them even cheaper!?

[PumpkinSteve]

Emeye said:

It looks like a poorly Ford StreetKa - surely you can get one of them even cheaper!?

I was thinking that or a Daihatsu Copen.

[Theoldfm]

Nahh! - that is a blatent rip off of a TT. It looks like the TT's 'special' twin.

Not nice

[Mr Sparkle]

Theoldfm said:

Nahh! - that is a blatent rip off of a TT. It looks like the TT's 'special' twin.

Not nice

I think their design pre-dates the TT so it's the other way round.

[mike9009]

I think they were based on a metro and used to go for silly money when the TT was extremely desirable around 2000.

Always looked dire, especially with the metro interior.

Mike

[wackojacko]

WTF, you can buy a real TT Convertible for 5K.

[tr7v8]

Mr Sparkle said:

Theoldfm said:

Nahh! - that is a blatent rip off of a TT. It looks like the TT's 'special' twin.

Not nice

I think their design pre-dates the TT so it's the other way round.

It does pre-date Audi TT.

[Emeye]

I wonder what the optimistic reserve is?

What would it be worth if it looked normal?

[Sam_68]

tr7v8 said:

Mr Sparkle said:

Theoldfm said:

Nahh! - that is a blatent rip off of a TT. It looks like the TT's 'special' twin.

Not nice

I think their design pre-dates the TT so it's the other way round.

It does pre-date Audi TT.

It predates the Audi in terms of production, but not in terms of design.

The Banham was based on the Audi TT concept car/drawings.

It takes longer for Audi to develop a production car than it does a man in a shed to develop a... erm, shed.

[NHK244V]

Sam_68 said:

It predates the Audi in terms of production, but not in terms of design.

The Banham was based on the Audi TT concept car/drawings.

It takes longer for Audi to develop a production car than it does a man in a shed to develop a... erm, shed.

man in shed deloping a shed

[Mini1275]

Awesome!.

I've always wanted a kit car that looks like a TT!.

Oh wait, I haven't, what a fking monstrosity.

Kill it with fire.

[sebhaque]

It would be better off as a SportKa replica by the look of the bodywork.

I also noticed it has a 1.4 Rover K-series lump - c.105bhp from memory. Why would you pay that much for an Aldi TT with less than half the horsepower of the standard car? Unless it's been very modified, so you'd have to pay more on insurance, it just seems completely pointless. I could understand if it was a Reventon or a DBS or something exotic, but something which is now arguably in territory, just seems a bit chocolate teapot.

[tr7v8]

sebhaque said:

It would be better off as a SportKa replica by the look of the bodywork.

I also noticed it has a 1.4 Rover K-series lump - c.105bhp from memory. Why would you pay that much for an Aldi TT with less than half the horsepower of the standard car? Unless it's been very modified, so you'd have to pay more on insurance, it just seems completely pointless. I could understand if it was a Reventon or a DBS or something exotic, but something which is now arguably in territory, just seems a bit chocolate teapot.

Err it is tiny, much smaller than a TT & lighter as well. And a 1.8VVC K series would be 160BHP & easily tunable beyond that.
I don't understand the dress it up as a TT bit, but Paul Banham never intended it to be a replica/copy or anything else of a TT. It was a kit car of the period & fine for that, does any one look at a cheap 7 copy & say god I can get a Caterham for 6K? It also got around the SVA test of the time.
There is one locally sat on a drive, Mrs. TR7V8 wants it, badly & I suspect at sometime in the future if no one else has it we will. If that is what she wants fine. She likes TTs as well & there is no way a VAG product will be on the drive!

[Dirty Frank]

Emeye said:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Banham-Kit-Car-X99-Azur-...



I have no idea why anyone would do this, or who would buy it now? You could buy a real Audi TT for not much more than that!

They were released when the TT was a prototype.

They also did a rally version, not sure how well it did but it looked mental rallying.

[Glassman]

Ferrari Azure Paint job by Eric Poole, Ipswich

[saaby93]

Ive seen them before and I think it's great
In some ways it's like you can get large and small versions of a mini.
It doesnt really need the 5 circle badge on the front, I reckon it could stand on it's own and might do better if peeps didnt think it was a pretender.
One of the better kitcar efforts

[Snoop Bagg]

kambites said:

The Bat was never meant to be a TT replica (I think it actually predates the TT?); it seems that the X99 is just a mildly updated version with TT headlights and some idiot has stuck an Audi badge on the front of that one.

It was based on the TT concept drawings around at the time. VAG actually intervened over the design origin and the car was revised a bit so it looked like a cross between the TT and Nissan Figaro.