Thursday 11th September 2003

FBS Go Bust

Predictable but sad nevertheless

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[sjc]

No surprise at all. Dreadful build quality,pug ugly styling and possibly managed by people who weren't prepared to listen? It's not the time to gloat because no-one wants to see a small British car company fail but there's going to be an awful lot of people on here that are gonna say "I told you so"

[Twin Turbo]

I was certainly no fan of the car, but sad to see the company go all the same.

[jamer]

Drove the car when it first came outr and although not my `cup of tea' exterior wise (one I tried was grey and orange), it handled very well.

Priced up against a TVR it just couldn't compete

IMHO

Sorry to hear the news

[grahambell]

As someone who has followed the progress of FBS from before the car had a body or a name I have to say this is sad news, but in light of events not very surprising.

Like Ted says, there's a great chassis there for someone. Think it would fit a treat under something like this:

[Lotusacbc]

wow, what is that car?

[PetrolTed]

See the home page. It's the Alfa Competizionelli 8C with anchovies.

[jamesc]

Very sad!

[flasher]

It is sad, but then again it isn't. If I was building the "Flasher Census" and came on here and you all told me it looked shit, then (after weeding out the wind up merchants) I would be back to the drawing board. It's no use having a great chassis if it's the automotive equivalent of Anne Widdecome on the outside.
If only they had listened...

[Podie]

Never good to see someone go down the tubes, and I don't think I could asd anything else to what has been said...

[PetrolTed]

Go on Flash - buy the chassis. I'd love to see a Flasher Census. The original wasn't flash enough by far.

[Podie]

PetrolTed said:

Go on Flash - buy the chassis. I'd love to see a Flasher Census. The original wasn't flash enough by far.

[GregE240]

flasher said:

If only they had listened...

Precisely Andy. And they did not. Now look what's happened.
Another budding sportscar manufacturer goes to the wall, but they were a small fish in a bloody big pond. Time to pull them out and flush them down the toilet methinks.

[trackdemon]

If its as good as they say, give me this with the drivetrain:



And I'll pop some decent fibreglass bodywork on it. Sell it at a sensible margin and maybe a chance of success!?

[Griffmeister]

I told you so !

[DanH]

I dunno what it is with love volume British Cars Makers and their supreme hubris about styling. Why the hell won't they pay someone competent to do it. Just look at that melted cheese one thats in the mags at the moment (forgotten its name bleh). Or look at the Noble styled by Lee himself (and you can tell!).

For the love of god will they please start paying stylists.

[Apache]

Wasn't the FBS designed by the winner of a new designers award or something?
Joe 90 must've been unsure about it because he came on this site to assess the interest, I think if he'd done that sooner he might have had a chance to change things before setting up production

[meerkat]

Flasher said (snipped)

".....If I was building the "Flasher Census" and came on here and you all told me it looked shit, then (after weeding out the wind up merchants) I would be back to the drawing board........"

Which is exactly what I did.....Ok no-one said it was shit, but certain points were raised and a "proper" stylist hired.

www.desicodesign.com/meerkat/images/061503-cliff01.jpg

[Podie]

DanH said:

I dunno what it is with love volume British Cars Makers and their supreme hubris about styling. Why the hell won't they pay someone competent to do it. Just look at that melted cheese one thats in the mags at the moment (forgotten its name bleh). Or look at the Noble styled by Lee himself (and you can tell!). For the love of god will they please start paying stylists.

What's wrong with the Noble?

[Apache]

meerkat said:

Which is exactly what I did.....Ok no-one said it was shit, but certain points were raised and a "proper" stylist hired.

pssst! mate, I know where you can get some nice handling chassis' to wrap that sexy fibreglass over

[peetbee]

Podie said:

What's wrong with the Noble?

I think DanH meant the M10, it wasn't as good a looker as the M12.