Near to where I live a kit car has been delivered. I saw this and spoke to the buyer/owner a nice bloke. This is his first kit car so I whis Jack well with it.
The car is a monocoque 2+2 coupe hatchback with FWD and good aerodynamics. It styling is current and has a hint back to great kit from the 1980 and 1990's. What do you think this use as a donor? Well the donor went out of 15 years ago. The company that built the donor is also history.
Hopfully most of you have named the donor and the kit car. Well its a Rover 100(Metro) and a Midas Cortez 2+2. This shows the problem with kits very well. I will not go into the history of Midas, but ask a simple question why are they still using this old donor car? The roads are full of supermini and city cars that could be used as donor for an updated Midas.
They are also full of sports models called things like GTI, XR, RS and SRI. A modern design in the Midas style coupe using clever aerodynamics with 2+2 seating and good handeling. At around £4-6000 would be a great buy instead of a secondhad hot hatch. Clealy this is a company that in the past took risks, but is not doing so today. They have become comfitable do what they are doing and do not want to take a risk. If I had the money I would buy the company and built that not car, based on a modern city car and sell them against those secondhand GTI, XR and SRI.