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Minotaur 

 Automotive manufacturer of Kent;United Kingdom.  From 1998 to 2012.

Minotaur   Automotive manufacturer of Kent;United Kingdom.  From 1998 to 2012.

Minotaur was a British manufacturer of sports automobiles  that began in the late 1990s.The brand name was Minotaur .

History

John Forakis founded in 1993 the company Minotaur Cars in Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in the county of Kent . They first presented a prototype at a trade fair in the same year . But only in 1998 began the production of fully built automobiles and kits .

 From 2006 to 2009, Pilgrim Cars from Small Dole continued production at Henfield in West Sussex . Again with John Forakis between 2009 and 2012 in his new company Vision Sportscars in Framfield at Uckfield in East Sussex the last manufacturer. In total, with about only eight copies created. 

The car model was a sports car with an exotic look for the time, designed by John Forakis. The base was a spaceframe tubular frame. A Rover V8 engine was mounted  in mid engine design behind the seats and drove to the rear wheels.  As of 2009, was a larger V8 engine from Chevrolet with 5700 cc displacement and 350 hp power was also available.

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