@@QuickshiftCars google their address (16697 SW 117th Ave) and check it with google Panorama, did you see any sign of a DDR there??? cus i didnt see any, its a big fucking scam, there was another guy who was doing that same scam in South America before
The kit costs $18,995 plus tax and shipping. You need a 1997 to 2004 Corvette donor car, which costs about the same as the kit. You need a boxter trans. Used around $4,000 or rebuilt with a warranty $6600. Boxter shifter and cable new around $700 or used around $300. Engine to trans adapter kit $1800. Misc. other parts. Using a complete running Corvette with manual trans gets you a lot of parts you will need. You will have around $43,000 invested before you start the build. I would expect the finished car to cost around $50,000 minimum. It will depend on how much you spend on the donor 'vette. You can buy a new base model C8 for around $60,000 and get a new car with a warranty. Something to consider.
These kits are absolutely the best around the world!! Gorgeously designed, y'all must see the detailing on the ones by owners in Saudi Arabia, Germany and the Netherlands, absolutely incredible how affordable they are
I remember meeting Diego back in the days.. 😅 in the Dominican Republic I used to live there and was crazy to see a McClaren F1 driving through Santo Domingo.. I did not know back then that it was a kit car.. Glad to see they still around and actually making new models.
I looked into this company back when he first started and almost bought a kit then but ran out of funds. I’m looking to do one of them possibly now. they are one of the Best looking kit cars in the world. One of those would look awesome next to my Porschelol very cool you did a review on them 👍
I know Mr G. he is a solid dude. He takes his cars to the shop I take my car to to for fine tuning. If you make it out to Miami holler at me. I can show you some stuff.
@@iHaveTheDocuments I have no issue with getting a kit car as long as it gives me what I am looking for. But after doing some research and having some contact with the company it won't be this one.
@@randalllawkin My plan was to have a turn key build and I wanted to have control over the donor car and remanufactured engine and personnally deliver those. The owner apparently didn't like that for some reason and abruptly stopped communicating with me. Fair enough, he has the right to refuse service. If you are serious about dealing with them, there are other things to consider. Just do the internet research and you be the judge. I plan on going with the Ultima RS but will build it myself.
Thanks for your review. I looked at purchasing one of these kits a year ago, but discovered a lot of negative reviews on the internet. I don’t know how to believe. Maybe it was one crazy customer or maybe they are not a honest company? Maybe you could explore this angle by interviewing those who purchased kits.
It looks amazing and smooth to drive. Maybe those complaining did not succeed at putting all of the parts together. He said it, "it is your responsibility." So one better buys a preassemble DDR if available.
It reminds me of a mix between a Koenigsegg and a Pagani zonda. I like it none the less. I was leaning towards FFR GTM, but after seeing the newer version of the DDR, i'd be looking to price one of those out. good job on the video. adding on to previous post. about the only negative i had with earlier versions was no windows. or the ugly little box for a window. i didnt see ifthey had a window at all on these
Great video! Love the focus on Kit Cars specifically. But I'd just like to inform you that the GT4 is no longer in production. I spoke to Mr. Grullon a few months ago inquiring about the kits for sale, and he informed me that the MR2 (91-94) is becoming increasingly hard to find, and is becoming a bit too old to justify the Kit. So the GT4 is now discontinued. Just thought I'd give y'all a heads up. :)
in 2008 or 2009 , i helped build the original tube chassis for the blue car at a shop in Stuart FL called RaceCarBuilders . im sure DDR has changed stuff over the years . but cool to see this guy is still at it .
Thank you for the post, loved it!! Please & thank you on the review/drive once there's an available model for you to get your hands on! That would be great!
These are a great idea, but if you don't have the patience to do it right? Stay away. I could do an engine, and suspension. I can't do body work or interior. For me, these are where cost comes into play? A nice interior, you're talking at least $10grand on the low side? Done right though, you will be the star of the show for decades! Anyone attempting to do one, I wish you success. Thanks for for the video. It was good.
I have been following DDR Motorsport for 14 years, and I actually created their Wikipedia article in 2006. They have been a REALLY shady company ever since they started out. The only talk about them in the Kit-car community is from someone who was scammed by DDR, and sued them. It really seems like a company that has little knowledge of engineering supercars, but they are absolutely determined to show off at all costs. For the first few years they tried to create the illusion that they were making multiple models and they pretended they had built a few cars. However it all seemed to be the exact same demo car, except they would add a few new bolt-on parts to it, and they'd paint it a new colour. However, the car always seemed to have the exact same 3S-GTE motor that nobody was interested in. The Wikipedia page was frequently hijacked by an IP address from the Dominican (hmm), and they would rewrite the article to sound like a DDR brochure. I gave up on maintaining it due to the blatant advertising he was trying to use Wikipedia for. Their website offered different fictional models, one of them had a Rotary engine, another had a Subaru engine. There was no evidence of any of these being built, and also no evidence that they even knew how they were going to build these (I would have wanted to see confirmation that they at least understood that a custom solution would need to be engineered to adapt these engines to a mid-engine transaxle). They were all hypothetical ideas from somebody with apparently very little knowledge of automotive engineering. It appears that Diego never allowed the car to be reviewed, because there's no word from anyone who has ever sat in their demo car. So there's not much confidence out there that it is even a properly engineered chassis, or that their demo car was any good at all. It had an old stock MR2 engine, so perhaps a review might be embarrassing for them? Around 2010-2011, there was was some talk online from the first customer (the first customer that anyone had heard of), and he was claiming that DDR is scamming him. Apparently he waited through very long delays for parts that were missing from delivery, and they refused to reply to him. Apparently he sued them. In 2011 there was a post on a popular Kit car community forum, a member was asking if DDR is actually still in business, because we had heard nothing from DDR, and no customers appeared to exist. Diego posted a rude and very angry reply, called the poster a liar, and said that they are still in business. It was a very pathetic and childish reply from someone who seems to have more temper than reading skills. The post is still online if you want to look for it. Aside from this post, I've never seen Diego appear on any online Kitcar communities. There's very little evidence of these cars out there. Aside from the guy who claimed to be scammed, the only other confirmed customer I've found online is a guy with a TH-cam channel called "The Ferret", he completed his build, but it is just the original MR2-engine design. The pictures on his blog revealed that one of my early suspicions were true, that the chassis does not seem to be designed by someone with much engineering knowledge. It is an incredibly simplistic design, which appears to just be a tube-frame that has fittings to attach a complete MR2 subframe. Many parts of the chassis appeared to be made by someone with poor fabrication skills. My guess is that in the last 15 years, they may have made less than 5 cars. Maybe more, but if there are any others, either the owners are embarrassed of them, or they never completed their build? I wouldn't hold your breath on them offering you a demo car for review. They don't have any cars, and since the only experiences we've heard about them have been negative experiences, I doubt we're going to see any other cars.
Love watching your videos you're doing an excellent job, the design of this car is beautiful it looks like a exotic car love the big wing on the back of the car. And I love the fact that you can customize the inside. Keep up the good work.
I had the idea for making a kit car manufacturer called GT1 replicas, and make replicas of 90's gt1 roadcars like the Porsche 911 GT1, Mercedes CLK GTR, and Nissan R390 GT1.
All I could think of was if the car was light enough, it should be fitted with a 200hp bike engine. That would be something special to drive, yet the honda engine would probably beat it in speed, reliability, gas mileage..
So with the kit, engine, electronics and all the other stuff you're looking more at like $50,000, if you didnt have the tools, thatl be an extra few grand, then theres wheels and tyres, not too much really about a grand or more, if you dont have the talent or the tools to put it together you would have to hire someone to do it for you which will probs be a few months of work for like an extra $10,000, so overall not as cheap as they will have you make it out to be.
@@diegogrullon131 Im saving up for a Prova Countach kit, I dont have the space, tools or technical knowhow besides welding and fabrication experience, so all in all itl be like $90k for a complete car, but I must say this kit car is a nice thing to look at.
Not necessarily. It all depends on where you're sourcing your parts from. There are plenty of wrecked c5 corvettes out there with solid parts to make them donor cars. You can get them dirt cheap in the states too. Other LS engines can be acquired for cheap too. You can also rip the electrical harness from the corvette as a base, and splice in whatever functions you need in addition to it. All that is assuming you want the c5 variant anyway, there's nothing stopping someone from using a different engine set up, such as the Impala based model, or one fitting a Honda engine (dirt cheap on the market right now). Sourcing parts is just as important as having all the tools, and if you know where to look it's easy to get parts for cheap.
Okay since this is literally more than 15 times cheaper than the cheapest exotic (disregarding the aurelio) this is a better choice for us middle class folks
Thanks a lot I'm getting a lot of good information I appreciate what you're doing I'm considering buying a kit car project you're being very helpful thank you
its a very nice kit, and you really have to be passionate about a custom experience to buy one, because the reality is that is nowhere close to $17,000 as the image in this video shows, infact you can't even buy their cheapest kit for $17k. You will easily spend triple by the time it is complete.. I am looking to buy one because I want a custom made car, but if I just wanted a fast cheap supercar, there are McLaren Mp4-12c for $85k used, and Nissan GTR is even cheaper, like 50k. Buy this car for the right reasons.
WOW Salim!! When you stated the price of the used McLaren at first I was like, baloney. But I just looked and there is currently a very nice, clean, 34,000 2012 silver colored one for sale for just under $85,000!!! Thanks for opening my eyes to this!!😊
I would love to buy a kit car but I have no space to put it together. Does this kit car company offer a turn key which is that they put it together for the customer?
K this could be a dumb question but I'm going to ask anyways, I'm completely new to kit cars. I went to their website and saw that most of the kits are made for engines and functional components of really old cars. So if you buy a corvette that's 15-20 years old and put this kit on it, like yeah it'll look cool, but aren't you basically going to be driving a worn down hunk of junk that the previous owners have probably driven into the ground and which has possibly hundreds of thousands of km/miles on it? Not to mention antiquated technology that couldn't compete on the track with a new sports car? And won't that be extremely unreliable and not last long at all given that its so old? How is there any reliability and how are they performing so well with such old internal components? Is it expected to last? Where do they get these parts if not old cars? I appreciate anyone who takes the time to answer. Thank you and God bless you.
Curious if you've ever built a kit car? I suggest asking those that have, what a realistic finished cost is. Don't go by what the company producing them says. Factory Five said the 818 could be built for well under $20k. I don't know of anyone that's done it for less than $35k.
So by the time It's all done you could have purchased an m6 or any other actual high end car. Excluding the vett engine the 4 bangers and boost can be expected to be rebuilt or replaced every few years. Let alone you still need to paint unless you like wrap or colored plastic. For a fun project for a father son deal I'm in. But not as a daily ot "floss" mobile.
@@ddrmotorsportus Ah, okay. I see it is the 1990's MR2. Is it possible to fit in a 2000's MR2 powertrain in the design of your model? I ask, because my ultimate vision of a sports car is to have "the holy trinity". Affordability, 2-seater Fun, and Reliability.
Looks like the GTA5 version of an existing car
The front end kinda reminds me of a 2005 nsx
McLaren F1 LM
True
more like automation car KEKW
Which is great! Now we can have GTA looking cars in real life!
It looks a lot like the F1 but I’m getting Koenigsegg CC8 vibes too
And a bit of Pagani...
I was just going to make the same comment .
SHANNON SA, I can see that
Lol
@@mr_sparkly_face4087 mirrors and lights very Zonda
Yep I would like to see the DDR facility operation
I might be able to work that out!
@@QuickshiftCars please do I own a c5 corvette and I would like to see the processe , I also live in Florida.
Its a scam, trust me !!!
@@QuickshiftCars google their address (16697 SW 117th Ave) and check it with google Panorama, did you see any sign of a DDR there??? cus i didnt see any, its a big fucking scam, there was another guy who was doing that same scam in South America before
Please take this video down. It’s a scam and your gonna hurt people showing this because there gonna believe it’s real. This is a scam.
The kit costs $18,995 plus tax and shipping. You need a 1997 to 2004 Corvette donor car, which costs about the same as the kit. You need a boxter trans. Used around $4,000 or rebuilt with a warranty $6600. Boxter shifter and cable new around $700 or used around $300. Engine to trans adapter kit $1800. Misc. other parts. Using a complete running Corvette with manual trans gets you a lot of parts you will need. You will have around $43,000 invested before you start the build. I would expect the finished car to cost around $50,000 minimum. It will depend on how much you spend on the donor 'vette. You can buy a new base model C8 for around $60,000 and get a new car with a warranty. Something to consider.
This car in a few years will not be a kit car no more, definably getting mine before starts getting to expensive.
Didnt that happen with other kits where they dont sell them after a while or the price is raised into Oblivion.
DDR has been around for a long time so yeah.
@@abes3925 Working on it!
@@diegogrullon131 the car should not be too expensive, after all it's a kit car not a supercar.
@@diegogrullon131 see you soon Diego lol
This... is a DDR (in Doug demouro voice)
Read that straight up
Anditis the cheapest modern exotic on today’s market.
Maybe DDR actually stands for Doug Demouro Racing....
*This!.... is a DDR. And today, im going to review it.*
I'll wait for a Doug score
Really well put together piece of research. Would be really cool to see you review one. Awesome job!
These kits are absolutely the best around the world!! Gorgeously designed, y'all must see the detailing on the ones by owners in Saudi Arabia, Germany and the Netherlands, absolutely incredible how affordable they are
I remember meeting Diego back in the days.. 😅 in the Dominican Republic I used to live there and was crazy to see a McClaren F1 driving through Santo Domingo.. I did not know back then that it was a kit car.. Glad to see they still around and actually making new models.
I looked into this company back when he first started and almost bought a kit then but ran out of funds. I’m looking to do one of them possibly now. they are one of the Best looking kit cars in the world. One of those would look awesome next to my Porschelol very cool you did a review on them 👍
I agree. This and the vaydor g35 are my favorites.
Finally you review this car it's been decades.
me: Mom i want a Mclaren F1
Mom: we have a Mclaren F1 at home
Mclaren F1 at home:
this doesnt make sense cause it implies you are not happy with the F1 at home
@@tryharderpls not really, but it could imply that
@rufio777 no u
@@tryharderpls if THAT's the F1 at home, then I wouldn't be happy either..considering what F1 is lol
Your mom is a smart woman!
I've always been interested in kit cars, these are amazing looking and you can't beat that price, wow!
Imagine he starts making it as a legit car company and brand just like what Christian Von Koenigsegg did
Yeah. Just like a Koenigsegg, but without all that 'engineering and stuff'...
@@lunapetunia3778 ford actually :)
Rest of it .
Wow i am dominican and i din't even know about this, so proud.
What does being dominican have to do with u knowing about this?
@@realmerc8373Other side of island for sure😂
I know Mr G. he is a solid dude. He takes his cars to the shop I take my car to to for fine tuning. If you make it out to Miami holler at me. I can show you some stuff.
Don’t lie you take the city bus
@@GreenBeamGlockCassarole ha ha
@@GreenBeamGlockCassarole METRO MOOOOVERR
Wow, I love the look of these cars and will seriously look into this! I am on a wait list for a C8 'Vette but this is far more appealing to me.
It's a kit car.
@@iHaveTheDocuments I have no issue with getting a kit car as long as it gives me what I am looking for. But after doing some research and having some contact with the company it won't be this one.
@@TheAeroegg what happened what did you not like curious
@@randalllawkin My plan was to have a turn key build and I wanted to have control over the donor car and remanufactured engine and personnally deliver those. The owner apparently didn't like that for some reason and abruptly stopped communicating with me. Fair enough, he has the right to refuse service. If you are serious about dealing with them, there are other things to consider. Just do the internet research and you be the judge. I plan on going with the Ultima RS but will build it myself.
@@TheAeroegg Try Superlite (SL-C) cars.
Thanks for your review. I looked at purchasing one of these kits a year ago, but discovered a lot of negative reviews on the internet. I don’t know how to believe. Maybe it was one crazy customer or maybe they are not a honest company? Maybe you could explore this angle by interviewing those who purchased kits.
It looks amazing and smooth to drive. Maybe those complaining did not succeed at putting all of the parts together. He said it, "it is your responsibility." So one better buys a preassemble DDR if available.
This is easily the best looking kit car so far .
Thank you very much Jerry, we work very hard to make our cars from scratch. Our team is very happy of your comment.
@@diegogrullon131 ur not the real guy right 😳
Ultima GTR is the best kit car, looks and powertrain and,well, everything.
It reminds me of a mix between a Koenigsegg and a Pagani zonda. I like it none the less. I was leaning towards FFR GTM, but after seeing the newer version of the DDR, i'd be looking to price one of those out. good job on the video.
adding on to previous post. about the only negative i had with earlier versions was no windows. or the ugly little box for a window. i didnt see ifthey had a window at all on these
Yes, yes, yes! Please do an up close and personal review of a completed car!
Grant, we're going to do some videos with very special cars soon. Stick around this great channel!
Great video! Love the focus on Kit Cars specifically. But I'd just like to inform you that the GT4 is no longer in production. I spoke to Mr. Grullon a few months ago inquiring about the kits for sale, and he informed me that the MR2 (91-94) is becoming increasingly hard to find, and is becoming a bit too old to justify the Kit. So the GT4 is now discontinued. Just thought I'd give y'all a heads up. :)
Time to get another donor engine :)
in 2008 or 2009 , i helped build the original tube chassis for the blue car at a shop in Stuart FL called RaceCarBuilders . im sure DDR has changed stuff over the years . but cool to see this guy is still at it .
Love love love this channel man!!! Keep going!
I’d buy the 26k version so I can have a mini zonda... But the rear taillights are whack can’t they design them too look the The Vulcan taillights?
I’m sure you can do it yourself they would get copyright infringement from the company 😂
If I didnt have my 1970 Camaro project I would DEFINITELY be looking into one of these... totally badass machine here! Great video showcase too!
What model Camaro is it?
While I like this car, the Camaro should only appreciate in value.
Awesome Review My Friend...I will definitely look into this Car Company.
Best kit car channel, keep em coming.
Thanks, will do!
Wow so cool they were on the corner of my warehouse,i never seen it complete only them working all night, so beautiful, great job!!!
Would love to see the facility walkthrough, also checking out your motorcycle stuff
This is a great idea, the real lego cars company! Great video! ✌🏼🤙🏼💯
Thank you for the post, loved it!! Please & thank you on the review/drive once there's an available model for you to get your hands on! That would be great!
McLaren F1 and Mosler MT900 just had a baby
These are a great idea, but if you don't have the patience to do it right? Stay away. I could do an engine, and suspension. I can't do body work or interior. For me, these are where cost comes into play? A nice interior, you're talking at least $10grand on the low side? Done right though, you will be the star of the show for decades! Anyone attempting to do one, I wish you success. Thanks for for the video. It was good.
Crazy how DailyDrivenExtoics are now building one of these🎉
If I ever get to buy a super car I'll be this one, doesn't matter that it's a kit car it's just beyond awesome, amazing work from his Creator
Would love to see a review of the Miami gt
I have been following DDR Motorsport for 14 years, and I actually created their Wikipedia article in 2006. They have been a REALLY shady company ever since they started out. The only talk about them in the Kit-car community is from someone who was scammed by DDR, and sued them. It really seems like a company that has little knowledge of engineering supercars, but they are absolutely determined to show off at all costs. For the first few years they tried to create the illusion that they were making multiple models and they pretended they had built a few cars. However it all seemed to be the exact same demo car, except they would add a few new bolt-on parts to it, and they'd paint it a new colour. However, the car always seemed to have the exact same 3S-GTE motor that nobody was interested in.
The Wikipedia page was frequently hijacked by an IP address from the Dominican (hmm), and they would rewrite the article to sound like a DDR brochure. I gave up on maintaining it due to the blatant advertising he was trying to use Wikipedia for.
Their website offered different fictional models, one of them had a Rotary engine, another had a Subaru engine. There was no evidence of any of these being built, and also no evidence that they even knew how they were going to build these (I would have wanted to see confirmation that they at least understood that a custom solution would need to be engineered to adapt these engines to a mid-engine transaxle). They were all hypothetical ideas from somebody with apparently very little knowledge of automotive engineering.
It appears that Diego never allowed the car to be reviewed, because there's no word from anyone who has ever sat in their demo car. So there's not much confidence out there that it is even a properly engineered chassis, or that their demo car was any good at all. It had an old stock MR2 engine, so perhaps a review might be embarrassing for them?
Around 2010-2011, there was was some talk online from the first customer (the first customer that anyone had heard of), and he was claiming that DDR is scamming him. Apparently he waited through very long delays for parts that were missing from delivery, and they refused to reply to him. Apparently he sued them.
In 2011 there was a post on a popular Kit car community forum, a member was asking if DDR is actually still in business, because we had heard nothing from DDR, and no customers appeared to exist. Diego posted a rude and very angry reply, called the poster a liar, and said that they are still in business. It was a very pathetic and childish reply from someone who seems to have more temper than reading skills. The post is still online if you want to look for it. Aside from this post, I've never seen Diego appear on any online Kitcar communities.
There's very little evidence of these cars out there. Aside from the guy who claimed to be scammed, the only other confirmed customer I've found online is a guy with a TH-cam channel called "The Ferret", he completed his build, but it is just the original MR2-engine design. The pictures on his blog revealed that one of my early suspicions were true, that the chassis does not seem to be designed by someone with much engineering knowledge. It is an incredibly simplistic design, which appears to just be a tube-frame that has fittings to attach a complete MR2 subframe. Many parts of the chassis appeared to be made by someone with poor fabrication skills.
My guess is that in the last 15 years, they may have made less than 5 cars. Maybe more, but if there are any others, either the owners are embarrassed of them, or they never completed their build? I wouldn't hold your breath on them offering you a demo car for review. They don't have any cars, and since the only experiences we've heard about them have been negative experiences, I doubt we're going to see any other cars.
So overall don't trust them?
@@sel508 I wouldn't give them any money. And I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for them to provide a demo car.
Great job done by Diego Grullon in these cars.
Great mix of information and video clips, well done sir 👍🏻
Looks like I have just found my dad a super car XD
Seen these years ago my brother and they are really works of art, my favourite is the Miami GT.
Great video as always mate 😊🤟
It's literally a shite f1 copy lol
@@rnichol22 and your point is mate ?
@@rnichol22 I'd love to see your designed and track tested supercar.
Subscribed!! Will love to see you review a model live!!!
Love watching your videos you're doing an excellent job, the design of this car is beautiful it looks like a exotic car love the big wing on the back of the car. And I love the fact that you can customize the inside. Keep up the good work.
Diego, is a genius since was a kid
Thank you Mattias, blessings!
Great video ! Just waiting the next!
I been waiting for you and this video thanks man
No problem, thanks for watching!
Pretty dope channel to let people know about all the kit cars if people want to buy 1
Great Report, informative and fun! Subscribed!
If you get a chance, I would like to see one. I even like to see an inbuilt kit.
I’d buy that over a lot of sports cars 👍🏾👍🏾
but u still need a sport car to be the donor car
@@andrealmeida738 Just the power train. Al in, it is cheaper than most sports cars.
Oh yes I would gladly want to see the DDR motorsports I always wanted one of those cars one day I will own one PEACE
1:57 All the cool kids drive around with their doors half shut.
Superlite also makes an amazing kit.
Superlite is a great car and company.
@@ddrmotorsportus Can you get a Viper V10 in your engine bay?
@@tengu190 maybe, but more important is what transaxle you can use.
@@ddrmotorsportus whatever Hennessy and Lotus used when they made mid mounted viper powered cars.
@@tengu190 😅😅😅
I absolutely love how this car looks like it's straight out from Burnout Paradise. It's just so sick!
Enjoyed building mine. Good fun to build as well as buy
How much did you pay in total?
@@Brancovtn65well I'm UK based so import taxes etc... but in today's cash it would be around £40k
@@killerferret666 Sounds pretty reasonable for what you get!
@@Brancovtn65 it is but alot of hours put into it when building yourself
@@killerferret666 I can’t even imagine doing half of that work myself lol. Respect 🤙
I had the idea for making a kit car manufacturer called GT1 replicas, and make replicas of 90's gt1 roadcars like the Porsche 911 GT1, Mercedes CLK GTR, and Nissan R390 GT1.
They got superlite
All I could think of was if the car was light enough, it should be fitted with a 200hp bike engine. That would be something special to drive, yet the honda engine would probably beat it in speed, reliability, gas mileage..
I like it when the big guy looks out for the little guy.
I happen to see you at a car show with hundreds of luxury and other sports cars and everyone had they eyes on the Grullon.
Really interesting keep up the good work 👍
What car/kit is that at 0:22?
Awesome! Great video
this is awesome...i hope this is available in our country
So with the kit, engine, electronics and all the other stuff you're looking more at like $50,000, if you didnt have the tools, thatl be an extra few grand, then theres wheels and tyres, not too much really about a grand or more, if you dont have the talent or the tools to put it together you would have to hire someone to do it for you which will probs be a few months of work for like an extra $10,000, so overall not as cheap as they will have you make it out to be.
Good comment, the final price is going to depend on your skills and the price of the parts.
@@diegogrullon131 Im saving up for a Prova Countach kit, I dont have the space, tools or technical knowhow besides welding and fabrication experience, so all in all itl be like $90k for a complete car, but I must say this kit car is a nice thing to look at.
Not necessarily. It all depends on where you're sourcing your parts from. There are plenty of wrecked c5 corvettes out there with solid parts to make them donor cars. You can get them dirt cheap in the states too. Other LS engines can be acquired for cheap too. You can also rip the electrical harness from the corvette as a base, and splice in whatever functions you need in addition to it.
All that is assuming you want the c5 variant anyway, there's nothing stopping someone from using a different engine set up, such as the Impala based model, or one fitting a Honda engine (dirt cheap on the market right now). Sourcing parts is just as important as having all the tools, and if you know where to look it's easy to get parts for cheap.
If it doesn't require welding then I'll be fine. If it does, then maybe I can request them to weld mounts for me instead IDK.
@@rockittt saw some for 55 grand pre owned wtf 17 grand new what a joke
Your forgot to mention that to finish the kit costs something like $50-$100k. Might as well get a nice used corvette or something else
0:38 : Mclaren F1, Pagani Zonda and Ferrari F50. I love it.
Is there a Baja bug type kit out there? Pulling wheelies over small mounds was more fun than going 100 mph plus on my old Yamaha crotch rocket
I'm sure the turn key models completed are $80k to 150k
Okay since this is literally more than 15 times cheaper than the cheapest exotic (disregarding the aurelio) this is a better choice for us middle class folks
Thanks a lot I'm getting a lot of good information I appreciate what you're doing I'm considering buying a kit car project you're being very helpful thank you
its a very nice kit, and you really have to be passionate about a custom experience to buy one, because the reality is that is nowhere close to $17,000 as the image in this video shows, infact you can't even buy their cheapest kit for $17k. You will easily spend triple by the time it is complete.. I am looking to buy one because I want a custom made car, but if I just wanted a fast cheap supercar, there are McLaren Mp4-12c for $85k used, and Nissan GTR is even cheaper, like 50k. Buy this car for the right reasons.
WOW Salim!! When you stated the price of the used McLaren at first I was like, baloney. But I just looked and there is currently a very nice, clean, 34,000 2012 silver colored one for sale for just under $85,000!!! Thanks for opening my eyes to this!!😊
I LOVE Factory Five cars-But THESE are GORGEOUS!!
How does someone get started in building their own design? Thats awesome
I like how a Dominican invented this! He said he wanted to make this for people who don’t want to spent millions
What would the minimum build cost be for a turnkey?
The GT8SS 43K
Thank you for this video. This is awesome
How much is a gt8ss automatic turnkey and does this company have finance options ?
Please look up videos on "Czinger 21C". It may open some eyes to future possibilities.
I would love to buy a kit car but I have no space to put it together. Does this kit car company offer a turn key which is that they put it together for the customer?
K this could be a dumb question but I'm going to ask anyways, I'm completely new to kit cars. I went to their website and saw that most of the kits are made for engines and functional components of really old cars. So if you buy a corvette that's 15-20 years old and put this kit on it, like yeah it'll look cool, but aren't you basically going to be driving a worn down hunk of junk that the previous owners have probably driven into the ground and which has possibly hundreds of thousands of km/miles on it? Not to mention antiquated technology that couldn't compete on the track with a new sports car? And won't that be extremely unreliable and not last long at all given that its so old? How is there any reliability and how are they performing so well with such old internal components? Is it expected to last? Where do they get these parts if not old cars? I appreciate anyone who takes the time to answer. Thank you and God bless you.
Pretty sure Gordon Murray’s not going to be happy with them using his McLaren F1 road car design
Maybe, but this boy , his nose is very short compared to the F1
@@matiasfpm it’s obviously where they got the design concept from. Anyone can look at it and say,”yeah that looks like a Mclaren F1”
Like how McClaren took the door design inspiration from a Japanese car?
@@jermaineesseboom381 and what car is this? Did they patent the design?
@@kenxiong6830 1990 Toyota Serra. Gordon Murray himself stated many times where he got the idea from.
Curious if you've ever built a kit car? I suggest asking those that have, what a realistic finished cost is. Don't go by what the company producing them says. Factory Five said the 818 could be built for well under $20k. I don't know of anyone that's done it for less than $35k.
Brilliant video 👍
This is a solid ride. Nice.
Why do you wear Extra-Large sweatshirts when they are like 3 sizes too big?
I'm looking forward to this
4:00 wow that orange one looked great until the chevy impala steering wheel....
Love to see the factory
Which donor car with the Hybrid power train did someone use on these cars?
So by the time It's all done you could have purchased an m6 or any other actual high end car. Excluding the vett engine the 4 bangers and boost can be expected to be rebuilt or replaced every few years. Let alone you still need to paint unless you like wrap or colored plastic. For a fun project for a father son deal I'm in. But not as a daily ot "floss" mobile.
Beautiful car hope you can get your hands on one. But hey where us the link to the bike channel.
I found DDE Tim's car this is gonna be SICK
So, what is the trans for the model with the MR-2 motor? Could I get the Semi-auto from the MR-2?
The same MR2 transmission.
@@ddrmotorsportus Ah, okay. I see it is the 1990's MR2. Is it possible to fit in a 2000's MR2 powertrain in the design of your model? I ask, because my ultimate vision of a sports car is to have "the holy trinity". Affordability, 2-seater Fun, and Reliability.
I would love to get one of these and put in top of an electric skateboard for its drive train.
What model was that orange car at the start
I have a c5 FRC corvette i want one but dont like the cutting of c5s lol
how much does the whole car costs (assembled and everything)
But are kit cars safe if they get rammed by another car?
That's exactly what I was thinking and how they ride
Our cars chassis are build with DOM tubing and mild steel, the same used by Nascar.
how does it compare to the vaydor kit?