Mercury Motorsport & Engineering Company Limited

Automotive manufacturer of  Shoeburyness , Essex UK from 1993 to 1998

Mercury Motorsport & Engineering Company Limited was a British manufacturer of automobiles in the 1990s . The brand name was Mercury .

History

Peter Baisden, one of the founders of Kara Sports Cars , founded the company in 1993 in Shoeburyness , County Essex , with Richard Turner and Karl Seyfang . They took over the project from Kara and started producing automobiles and kits . 1998 ended the production. RS Automotive and later RS Motorsport continued production under its own brand name  In total, 94 of the KaRa/Mercury/RS Automotive kits were sold. All in all, these four companies have produced about 115 copies . 

The only model Evolution 200 corresponded to the previous Kara 430 . This was a replica of the Ford RS 200 . The base was a spaceframe frame. On it a body of fiberglass panels was mounted. Wheel suspensions, steering and brakes and some interior parts came from the Ford Sierra . Various four-cylinder engines and V6 engines from Ford , V6 engines from Renault and V8 engines powered the vehicles.