Ginetta G55

Ginetta G55
Andrew Watson's Ginetta G55 at Thruxton in May 2013
Overview
Manufacturer	Ginetta Cars
Also called	Ginetta GT3
Production	2011 – present
Assembly	Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
Body and chassis
Class	Sports car
Body style	2-door coupé
Layout	Front-engine, RWD
Powertrain
Engine	Ford 3.7 litre V6 (Cup) Ginetta Racing 4.35 litre V8 (GT3)
Transmission	Hewland 6-speed sequential manual
Dimensions
Kerb weight	950 kg (2,094 lb) (Cup) 1,100 kg (2,425 lb) (GT3)
Chronology
Predecessor	Ginetta G50

The Ginetta G55 is a specialist sports car, which has been built by Ginetta Cars since 2011. It is built to the FIA GT3 regulations, and the cars are raced in a one-make series; the Ginetta GT Supercup. In addition to this, they are also used in the GT3 class of competitions such as the British GT Championship. It was an evolutionary update of the Ginetta G50, which is a GT4-class car.

Ginetta Cars announced in November 2010 that they were going to be building a new sports car, and named it as the G55. In February 2011, the car was released, as a more powerful evolution of the G50. The G55 featured a Ford-sourced 3.7 litre V6, producing 370 hp, in addition to a 6-speed sequential manual gearbox, built by Hewland. The new car did not replace the G50; instead, it supplemented it, and the Ginetta G50 Cup was rebranded as the Ginetta GT Supercup. The G55 was available for sale for £75,000, or as an upgrade from the G50 for £25,000. The car made its British GT debut in the Oulton Park rounds of the 2011 season, with four separate entries competing; the best result of the event came courtesy of Century Motorsport, whom took a ninth place finish at the second race of the day. Century Motorsport were also responsible for the car's best finish of the season; a fourth place at Rockingham Motor Speedway, in the first race of the day. A GT3 test mule was run by Rollcentre Racing (using the Cup engine with some GT3-specification components) in the 2011 Britcar 24 Hours; however, the car failed to finish the race.