Westfield Sportscars
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Westfield Sportscars are manufacturers of both factory built and kit versions of several two-seater, open top sportscars. Their main product line is a Lotus Seven inspired car - vehicles originally designed by Colin Chapman with only the bare essentials for motoring in order to give the rawest...
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Westfield Sportscars are manufacturers of both factory built and kit versions of several two-seater, open top sportscars. Their main product line is a Lotus Seven inspired car - vehicles originally designed by Colin Chapman with only the bare essentials for motoring in order to give the rawest and most exhilarating driving experience.

History[]

Whilst Caterham Cars bought the rights from Lotus Cars, Chris Smith set up a rival company and manufactured kits with very similar styling and construction. This led Caterham to threaten litigation (based on Industrial design rights) in the late 1980s which was eventually settled out of court and resulted in Westfield improving and changing the design of their cars. Whilst externally sharing a common look, Westfield and Caterham cars are somewhat different in construction. Westfield prefers to employ the same glass fibre body method that Lotus has traditionally used for their other models such as the Elise, Esprit, and Elan, rather than the aluminium used by Caterham.

Westfield has also pioneered technical innovations such as Independent rear suspension and a wider chassis, which other manufacturers have since adopted. The company has recently introduced a version of its SEi kit that uses donor parts from the Mazda Mx5 Miata. This is generally called an SDV (Single Donor Vehicle) kit. There is also an SDV kit that uses a Ford Sierra as a donor.

According to figures given to the magazine Total Kit Car, Westfield produces about 450 SEi and XTR chassis each year.[1]

In the first series of BBC's Top Gear, a Westfield XTR2 driven by the black Stig set a faster lap time than the reigning record holder of that series, the Pagani Zonda.

In December 2006, Westfield became a part of Potenza Sports Cars Limited.[2] In December 2007, it was announced that GTM Cars also became a part of Potenza Sports Cars.

Models[]

FW400

Megabusa

Megablade

SE

SEi & Sport

SEiGHT

SDV

Sport Turbo

XTR2

XTR4

XI

Racing models[]

AeroSport

AeroRace

Prototypes and concept cars[]

TRZ

Topaz

See also[]

Lotus Cars

Caterham Cars

References[]

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Official[]

Westfield Sportscars Ltd.

Information on the current Westfield XI

Information on the current Westfield XTR2

Clubs & Forums[]

Westfield Sports Car Club - Black Country Area

Westfield Sports Car Race Drivers Association

Westfield Sports Car Club

Westfield XTR2 Forums

Westfield versus Caterham on youtube

FM Westfield builder forum

Resources[]

Pictures, info and Technical help on Westfield Sports Cars

Information on Westfield kit cars and other kit car manufacturers

Build Diaries[]

John Williams's Westfield - An example of a builders website

A nut & bolt account of rebuilding a Westfield - by Paul Crisp

Mellow Yellow - A build up of a Vauxhall powered Seiw Westfield - by Tigger

A build up of a Sierra based SDV - by Rob Sims

Racing[]

BARC Westfield Championship

New race formula for 2008 in The Netherlands

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