Who will produce the first locally built Aussie Sports Car?

[jch75]

Who will produce the first locally built Aussie Sports Car? I don't think Monaro counts. I do like Monaro...............but I can't help think its a two door Commodore. BUT I do like it, especially the GTO & GTS. Actually the Pontiac GTO looks awesome on the road (saw it in a movie) - it is real different in the US cos there's no Commies surrounding it. The Pontiac does look unique.

Will the first locally built Aussie Sports Car be the SSX? Will that mean no more Vectra? Is SSX really a sports car? Will it be some other car brand. Will it be Mitsubishi in a much needed fight back? What will it be?

Will this car have real sports car performance?

[The Sentinel]

jch75. Save some question-marks for another post :-)

It's pretty harder to tell these days with more and more manufacturers heading offshore.

[Anonymous]

the new holden powered elfin

[FlySri]

South city Holdern are doing some great work to produce a mad monaro, to better the DJR/Harrod version XR.

[rjastra]

Let's get some definitions correct

Sports Car : a low small usually 2-passenger automobile designed for quick response, easy maneuverability, and high-speed driving

So from this anything that seat 4 and has 4 doors is unlikely to be termed a sports car.

You can bet your house on the fact that NONE of the major manufacturers here will built a "sports car" in Australia... ever.

The closest cars that GM have to to sports car are the Corvette and the VX220 (to be replaced by the Solstice).

The Monaro is simply a Coupe (ie 2 door sedan).

[RAiMA]

Wasn't there an aussie built SUPER car at the melbourne motorshow?

I vaguely remember it had F1 engineers work on it. Can't remember the specs or anything, except it was INSANE and could compete against the McLaren F1 and Ferrari Enzo :shock:

[Rhino]

RAiMA, the car you are thinking of is the Joss.

In its currently unfinished form, it is just slower than the F1 and .1 sec slower than the Ferrari Enzo. But it is 90 kilos over its target weight and about 60-70 kW under its target output.


...a production version of this car will run blistering sub-three-second 0-100 times and acquit itself across the quarter mile in comfortably under 11 seconds.

But 10 second quarters is no suprise to those of us who have been to the drags. Although, they did say comfortably :shock:

The Joss will be within 100kg of the Lotus Elise, but with four times the power!

If I can be naffed, I'll try and post the full article! That's lots of typing.

[Corsa]

If you want locally built Sports cars then over the years there have been a few. Try a company called Bolwell with their Nagari model. Or you could try a car called the Giocattolo which was more in the supercar class of the time. There are a few others ones that can be found if you really wanted to look into it. The current Elfin is the first one tied closely in with a major manufacturer.
The Joss will definitely be classified in supercar teritory.
Corsa

[dug74]

http://www.ford.com.au/images/home/home_energy/ford_logo.gif
OK...it aint locally produced....Oh...but it is a SportKa:twisted:
http://www.ford.co.uk/spg/images/SPG_3_28_0_16151.jpg
http://www.ford.co.uk/spg/images/SPG_3_28_0_16157.jpg

[Rhino]

Ha ha :D

Doug, you're a tool!

[Anonymous]

The 1st all Australian Sports Car(If ya wanna call that) was the Purvis Eureka built around the Mid '70s. It was a Based on a VW Beetle Chassis and had a All Fibreglass Bodyshell. Powered by a Worked 2lt VW Type3 Engine. I've only ever seen a couple, But I'm told they'd Kill a Monaro GTS 350 or the Soft Tuned(XB onwards) Falcon GT.
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~andrewswan/gallery/eureka.jpg

[jch75]

The JOSS, yeah I did recall this months back. The price tag isn't exactly affordable - $400000. I WISH!

Decent Article:
http://www.fastdrive.org/content.php?article.82

For pics try:
http://www.fast-autos.net/joss/josssupercar.html

Maybe we should be talking mass production sportcars like the 200SX or 350z, RX8, those sorts of affordable sports vehicles around the $60K mark.