Aries MotorSport is a British kit car manufacturer based in Cardiff South Wales. The company was created in April 2007 and is the distributor of the Stuart Taylor Locost and LocoBlade kits. These are

Lotus Seven The Lotus Seven is a small, simple, lightweight, two-seater, open-top, open-wheel, sports car produced by the British manufacturer Lotus Cars (initially called Lotus Engineering) between 1957 and 1972. It was designed by Lotus founder Colin Ch ...

replicas based either in car or bike engines. Besides supplying kit cars or parts, Aries MotorSport also sells factory built cars, converts car-engined cars into

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s and IVA work and presentation. The cars can be either right hand drive or left hand drive. There is both a live axle and an

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version. The IRS version uses

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shortened driveshafts, thus keeping the proportions from the original

Locost A Locost is a home-built car inspired by the Lotus Seven. The car features a space frame chassis usually welded together from mild steel square tubing. Front suspension is usually double wishbone with coil spring struts. The rear is tradition ...

. There are several Stuart Taylor and Aries cars running on the British

championship, with wins in 5 out of 6 years between 2000 and 2006. There are at least 5 currently running in the 2016 Locost series. Since 2015 Aries Motorsport are also home to the Sabre G2, a mid/rear engined space framed open two seat sports car. It is eligible for many championship series and in 2016 will be running in the

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RGB championship for bike engined cars. It runs the ultra reliable Honda CBR1000R Fireblade engine, and with an all up weight of around 435 kg gives a power to weight ratio of over 400 bhp per tonne.

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{{Lotus Seven Kit car manufacturers Car manufacturers of the United Kingdom Lotus Seven replicas