ascari a10

[bigrobert]

hi just like to now if anyone seen a ascari a10 and how many were built.

[autofocus]

Hi there,

The Ascari A10 was a more extreme version of the KZ1 road car.

The cars raced in FIA GT3, British GT and a few other series across the world were KZ1's.





The A10 was the Yellow car tested on Top Gear and a few other programmes and was seen at loads of motorshows etc



Ascari also built the KZ1R which has been seen at a few events, this was effectively a GT3 racer for the road. This car is stunning in the flesh.





Of course the pre-cursor to all of these was the standard KZ1, itself a stunning car.





I also have this pic taken on my old film camera from Supercar Sunday 2005, its a KZ1 race car prototype from memory.



I think Broughtons used to be the UK agent for Ascari, I remember them having a Blue KZ1 for sale last year. There must have been a few KZ1's built over the years, but I think there is only 1 A10 in exsistence.

Hope this helps.

Regards

Tim

[CraigW]

they brought the KZ1 to vmax, I went out in it, its funny, I didnt expect to be that impressed but it was a real supercar experience. i'd just got out of a Ford GT at the time so I had a pretty good reference point.

[knight]

CraigW said:

they brought the KZ1 to vmax, I went out in it, its funny, I didnt expect to be that impressed but it was a real supercar experience. i'd just got out of a Ford GT at the time so I had a pretty good reference point.

I remember that lovely looking beast

[adam24]

My dad was working for Ascari for a while and he told me that the A10 road car is actually faster than the race car!!
It's a funny old company, basically a hugely wealthy individual who loves cars and has built his own car and race track to enjoy them on! What a life!! If you need any specific info I am sure I could bug my dad for it...

[paddy328]

havent they gone bust?

[adam24]

paddy328 said:

havent they gone bust?

I don't think they have gone bust but I was under the impression that it was just not cost effective to have a base in the UK so they have sold up and run the operation from the race resort in Spain?!? Whilst my dad was working for them they had the factory/workshop to let and were thinning out the workforce etc. So in answer to your question... No!

[paddy328]

I see. I only live 10 mins from banbury and had been told by people that they were clearing out. Great cars.

[K321]

i used to live nr banbury, and i saw the yellow car with blue stripe out on the roads nr banbury, and i tried to follow it down a countrylane but i couldnt believe how fast and how loud it was, it had flames coming out of the exhaust and when it downshifted the noise was so loud i jumped out of my seat.

[jerwatt]

adam24 said:

paddy328 said:

havent they gone bust?

I don't think they have gone bust but I was under the impression that it was just not cost effective to have a base in the UK so they have sold up and run the operation from the race resort in Spain?!? Whilst my dad was working for them they had the factory/workshop to let and were thinning out the workforce etc. So in answer to your question... No!

Yeah, they pretty much have stopped the cars and are now concentrating on the Race Resort in Spain. Some of the cars are there which I believe you can hire out. The A10 was in Cars International for a while, but not sure where it is now. I believe Klaas Zwart (the Ascari owner) is the owner of the KZ1R. He had some of the operations based in Aberdeen as well as Banbury, in the past before it moved to Spain.

[steve06]

I saw the yellow A10 KZ in 2008 in Puerto Banus



I presume it was down to go to the Ascari race resort.

[northo]

I have it from a reliable source that they only built a handful of roadgoing KZ1's, and that only 1 was sold to a client. That was back in 2006, but I don't think much happened thereafter.

[deevlash]

the old factory has been for sale in the back of autosport for months now, weeds and all. I never quite understood why, at £300,000 for a car it came with pug 206 headlights and the racier versions had the chav tastic morette conversions, as seen on a saturday night outside McDonalds. The cut outs in the rear bumper of the yellow car are pretty shonky too.

[MATT427]

deevlash said:

the old factory has been for sale in the back of autosport for months now, weeds and all. I never quite understood why, at £300,000 for a car it came with pug 206 headlights and the racier versions had the chav tastic morette conversions, as seen on a saturday night outside McDonalds. The cut outs in the rear bumper of the yellow car are pretty shonky too.

:O OUT !!!

[ferrari spider]

knight said:

CraigW said:

they brought the KZ1 to vmax, I went out in it, its funny, I didnt expect to be that impressed but it was a real supercar experience. i'd just got out of a Ford GT at the time so I had a pretty good reference point.

I remember that lovely looking beast

I remember that one to. It was a silver one and came in a Trailer.

Edited by ferrari spider on Wednesday 28th October 19:52