GT-100 isn’t intended to be designed behind closed doors
This website exists now, before the car is finished, for a reason.
There are drawings to make, calculations to check, components to manufacture, prototypes to test and undoubtedly problems we haven’t discovered yet.
Some of those problems will be solved here.
Others will be solved by people who know considerably more about a particular subject than I do.
So if GT-100 has caught your interest, I’d like to hear from you.
I could help with this
Perhaps you work with:
engineering,
vehicle dynamics,
fabrication,
machining,
composites,
aerodynamics,
electronics,
CAD,
tooling,
motorsport,
IVA and vehicle approval,
or something we haven’t thought of yet.
You don’t need to offer to join a company or commit the next three years of your life to building a sports car.
Sometimes the most useful contribution is simply:
“I’ve done this before. Have you considered this?”
That’s exactly the sort of conversation I’d like GT-100 to create.
I might want one
We’re not taking orders.
There isn’t a price list.
And I’m certainly not asking anyone for a deposit on a car that doesn’t exist yet.
But one of the questions this project eventually has to answer is whether anybody other than me actually wants one.
If you think you might, tell me.
Whether you’re interested in the £20,000 approach, the £100,000 car, a rolling chassis, or simply want to see where the project ends up, that information is useful.
There is no commitment.
Just put your hand up.
I want to design a body
Please do.
One of the more interesting possibilities created by the GT-100 rolling chassis is that our body doesn’t have to be your body.
As the engineering develops, we intend to publish enough of the vehicle envelope and hard-point information to allow other people to explore their own designs.
Professional automotive designer?
Student?
Coachbuilder?
CAD enthusiast?
Person with a pencil and an idea?
All welcome.
[Design Your Own Body →]
You’ve got something wrong
Definitely tell me.
I’d much rather discover a mistake while it’s still a line on a drawing than after we’ve turned it into metal.
If you have relevant experience and think an engineering assumption is wrong, a regulation has been overlooked or there’s simply a much better way of solving something, get in touch.
You don’t have to agree with the project to contribute something useful to it.
The only thing I’d ask is that you tell me why.
That’s how engineering moves forward.
IVA and Motorsport
There are two particularly important sets of eyes I’d like to attract early in the project.
People with practical experience of IVA and low-volume vehicle approval, and people familiar with Motorsport UK regulations for sprint and hillclimb cars.
The objective is to consider both requirements while the car is being designed — not finish it and then discover that something fundamental needs changing.
Those subjects will eventually have their own development pages as the design becomes sufficiently defined.
[IVA & Road Approval →]
[Motorsport UK →]
Follow the build
You don’t need specialist knowledge and you certainly don’t need to want a GT-100.
You may simply want to see whether this slightly improbable idea ever drives out of the workshop.
That’s fine too.
Development will be documented here as it happens: sketches, calculations, CAD, prototypes, mistakes, testing and eventually, hopefully, a car.
[Development →]
Say hello steve@gt-100.co.uk
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I’m interested in:
Helping / I might want one / Designing a body / I’ve spotted something / Just following along / Something else
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Keep me updated as GT-100 develops.
You don’t have to build a GT-100 to help build the GT-100.
If you have an idea, some experience, a question, a criticism or simply want to follow along:
welcome to the project.