Tiger Racing

Tiger Racing (Tiger Sportscars) is an English company manufacturing kit cars, formed as Tiger Cars Ltd in London in 1989 by Jim Dudley^[1]. In 1998 they moved to new premises in Cambridgeshire and changed their name to Tiger Sportscars Ltd. They are amongst the biggest kit car manufacturers^{[citation needed]}, and are competitors to companies such as Westfield and Caterham Cars. They have many facilities at their headquarters in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire such as a rolling road, two engineering shops, a paint department, a sales and show area, MOT Station, trimming shop and a filled parts department. Tiger also has worldwide agents for shipping their sports cars globally.

They attend the country's main kit car shows and other events such as Stoneleigh kit car show annually. They have a filled motorsport calendar where they attend UK circuits such as Brands Hatch, Silverstone, Snetterton, Oulton Park, Mallory Park, Cadwell Park and Lydden Hill. They also have a car transporter which public can pay for their cars/bikes to be transported. One of their models which is no longer in production, the Z100 held the 0-60 MPH record at 2.8 seconds. Their race series runs with the BARC. They also boast a hire drive service where people can hire cars for use on the track.

External links

• Company web site

References

1. ^ Georgano, N. (2000). Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. London: HMSO. ISBN 1-57958-293-1.