Venturi
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Venturi
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| Introduction | Venturi is a tiny French company
founded in the mid-80 is. Its first product, the MVS mid-engined sports
car, was based on the engines and running gears of Renault Alpine GTA. Business
remained to be difficult during these years but MVS was still evolving gradually
into 300 Atlantique and eventually became the 400-horsepower 400GT. Despite
of the deep involvement in Le Mans, Venturi failed to win recognition as
an alternative to Porsche and Ferrari. (in fact, the racing results were
not very successful) It went into financial trouble in 1995 and had to be
rescued by the investment from a Thai group. Operation resumed in 1997.
The 300 Atlantique was updated with more attention to build quality and
refinement.
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| Sales figure | No details, but annual sales is likely to be not exceeding several hundreds cars, even in its best years. |
| Location | Nantes, France. With its own test track. |
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Since the death of Alpine
in 1995, Venturi became the last French sports car specialist. How long
could it survive ?