Aries MotorSport Ltd is a British kit car manufacturer based in Ilkeston, Derbyshire. The company was created in April 2007 and is the distributor of the Stuart Taylor Locost and LocoBlade kits. These are Lotus Seven

Lotus Seven

The Lotus Seven is a small, simple, lightweight two-seater open-top sports car produced by Lotus Cars between 1957 and 1972....

 replicas based either in car or bike engines.

Besides supplying kit cars or parts, Aries MotorSport also sells factory built cars, converts car-engined cars into bike-engined cars

Bike-engined car

A bike-engined car is a small or light weight car that is powered by an engine that was designed for use in a motorcycle. The advantage for car builders is that small car engines in high states of tune are relatively rare whereas large motorcycle engines are frequently designed for high specific...

 and IVA

Motor vehicle type approval

The new Framework Directive rules approval schemes of the new motor vehicles and their trailers in the European Union:*European Community Whole Vehicle Type Approval , that applies to passenger cars...

 work and presentation. The cars can be either right hand drive or left hand drive. There is both a live axle

Live axle

A live axle, sometimes called a solid axle, is a type of beam axle suspension system that uses the driveshafts that transmit power to the wheels to connect the wheels laterally so that they move together as a unit....

 and an IRS

Independent suspension

Independent suspension is a broad term for any automobile suspension system that allows each wheel on the same axle to move vertically independently of each other. This is contrasted with a beam axle, live axle or deDion axle system in which the wheels are linked – movement on one side affects...

 version. The IRS version uses Ford Sierra

Ford Sierra

The Ford Sierra is a large family car that was built by Ford Europe from 1982 until 1993. It was designed by Uwe Bahnsen, Robert Lutz and Patrick le Quément. The code used during development was "Project Toni"....

 shortened driveshafts, thus keeping the proportions from the original Locost

Locost

A Locost is a home-built clone of the Lotus Seven. The car features a space frame chassis usually welded together from mild steel square tubing. Front suspension is usually double wishbone with coil overs. The rear is traditionally live axle, but has many variants including independent rear...

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There are several Stuart Taylor and Aries cars running on the British Locost

Locost

A Locost is a home-built clone of the Lotus Seven. The car features a space frame chassis usually welded together from mild steel square tubing. Front suspension is usually double wishbone with coil overs. The rear is traditionally live axle, but has many variants including independent rear...

championship, with wins in 5 out of 6 years between 2000 and 2006.