Ginetta's 50th birthday

Ginetta is celebrating its 50th birthday in the finest style possible by launching a new car and taking it racing.

The appropriately named G50 weighs just 800kg and will use a Ford-sourced 3.5-litre V6 engine with 300bhp and a five-speed sequential gearbox.

The low-slung coupe will be offered as a road car, with a price of around £35,000, while the racing version will take part in its own race series.

The Ginetta G50 Cup Car series will consist of 10 rounds at circuits across the UK in 2008, and all of the cars will run with the same specification and tyres.

Ginetta has not yet announced full specifications for the road or race cars, but it says production of the first 30 G50s is well under way and the road-going version will be on sale before the end of 2007.

© Source: topgear
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