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Can I ask where we are going with this? Are you suggesting we build a kit car or...



I'm trying to find out if an owner of the current Fiesta would consider building a kit car if it was based on their favourite car. And also trying to get a feel for the type of styling that ticks the boxes in what I assumne to be a younger head than mine, with say 20 year olds.

I realise I could well be in the completely wrong forum, but I don't think it does any harm to get a feel for people's attitude towards the idea.

I'm not intending to make thousands of these kits, perhaps only 10 kits a year, but I know kit car companies who only sold two kits this year.

I bought a fast car mag the other month and thought it was utter rubbish, so I'm trying to see if there are people out there that have a more mature taste and attitude to individual cars.



Right I see, that makes it a little clearer, thanks.

Obviously there are pluses to kit cars, in that they can be cheap to build, fast and cheap to insure. The problems as I see them are:

1) The person needs to have some knowledge of cars, otherwise they won't be willing to build a car themselves. It would certainly be a daunting task to me.

2)The audience generally speaking is unlikely to be a typical 20 year old. (not that this site consists of 20 year olds. I am 26, some members of this forum are as young as 17/18 but I think the majority are probably 21-35 with a few more being over 35. - there is a pretty good age mix here) I would have thought there are some people who would love to build a car but this is likely to be a second or 'weekend' car. I don't know anyone around my age personally who could afford to drive the car they want and buy a kit car in addition - although I think the market may open up a bit more when you look at 40+ years of age (perhaps a mid-life crisis purchase).

3) It's all well and good asking our opinions and they may well be of value to you, but if I was risking my livelihood to take on a new business venture, I would want a little more reassurance than someone who owns an ST saying "I'd love to buy that kit car if you built it" - It wouldn't really give me much peace of mind.

I hope if you go forward with this venture that it is successful, and don't get me wrong, if I had £5k spare for a car of my choice "for the weekend", a good looking kit car would be a very tempting option to me (as long as it was built for me! ) Maybe that's taking away the fun of it, but I wouldn't trust myself to build a car which I am going to drive!

Keep us updated on your designs, it would certainly be interesting to see, but I do agree with the others, it really has to look fun to spend £4-5k on something of this nature. I see no point in making a replica of the current Fiesta, it is cheap enough to buy ready built with all the curves and the warranty.
If you were to do a replica of the new TT or something in that order, I would be far more interested!

Anyway, whatever you do, I wish you the best of luck with it
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