Did you know that around 80% of the Zero is produced and manufactured in house….

Many of you that have already visited us at the GBS Factory will know that we design and manufacture a lot of our products in house, and around 80% of the Zero is produced in house by our great team of 14 people that make the GBS Zero happen. Below are just a few behind the scenes photographs that show how the Zero and components are produced here at the Factory.

The complete GBS in-house manufacturing and design facility enables you to benefit from a managed supply chain that ensure our products are delivered consistently to the high-quality standard you expect. We design, manufacture and produce in house as much as we can including the Zero Chassis and Race (FIA) Chassis, Wishbones, Aluminium Body Panels, GRP Bodywork (choice of 9 colours) as well as a range of Carbon Fibre Bodywork panels, Suspension, Throttle Bodies, Brake Calipers, Exhaust System including Silencers & Manifolds, Fuel Tanks, Fuel Filler Caps and much more, below are just a few photographs of some of our favourite products that we manufacture. Our product range is not just for our Zero, its also suitable for a full range of other sports cars, we also have full workshop and design facilities enabling us to offer custom fabrication.

The 2000sq ft of component storage that we have provides our customers with access to a  comprehensive parts inventory to support your initial build requirements and the rapid dispatch of spares should the need arise.  Components and spares can be purchased directly from our showroom store at the factory or online from our parts website at www.kitspares.co.uk. and also www.atrproducts.co.uk

The range of GBS Zero’s are available as a factory-built car or in component form. You can select from a variety of packages ranging from a starter kit through to a full bill of material that can be assembled by yourself or by us. The GBS range is available in right or left hand drive and as a Standard width or wider GT chassis option. Click here to see more on the Zero options or contact us to arrange a visit.

You can trust that the range of cars and options available to you will provide superior value in terms of appearance, quality, design, performance, support and most of all enjoyment. See more manufacturing and engineering photographs on our engineering page, please click here.

MADE IN THE UK

Magazine visit & enjoy a test drive in our NEW Zero demonstrator….

You may have seen our new Gen 2 Zero demonstrator on our stand at several events that we have recently attended including the Autosport’s Show last month and it can also be seen this weekend (21st-23rd February) at the Race Retro Show on our stand. Our new demonstrator has been busy doing test drives, and it was nice to have Adam from Complete Kit Car magazine visit us yesterday morning to view & test drive our NEW Gen 2 Zero Demonstrator. Its a very nice high spec car and has a lot of optional extras and upgrades on it, see below its specification.

If you would like to come and see us and see our new Zero Gen 2 demonstrator then get in touch today, we look forward to hearing from you and welcoming you to the GBS Factory. The Zero can also be seen next month at our GBS Cars and Coffee event which is happening on Saturday 21st March at the GBS Factory, you can find more details on our event page about the day.

Specification:
Sport Chassis
Ford 2.5 Duratec Engine
ATR Throttle Bodies
Estimated BHP 195BHP
ECU Life Racing
Painted Hyacinth Red metallic
Carbon Fibre Dash with Aims Technologies MXP Strada Dash
Painted Sport Front Wings which are now standard on GBS Self build Packages
Carbon Fibre body kit including rear stone guards
ATR Suspension
DRL Style Headlights
Seats – GBS Stand Seats with red Stitching secured with black Ultralight TRS Motorspot GBS 4 Point Harness.
Wheels & Tyres - Team Dynamics pro race 1.2s – 7” front 8” rear with Yokohama AD08R tyres all round.
ATR Brakes front only – ATR light weight uprights front and rear.

Visit our GBS YouTube Chanel to see more details on our New Gen 2 Zero Demonstrator.
Contact us today book a Factory Visit & Test Drive, we look forward to hearing from you.

Its been another great year… Just some of our favourite photographs from 2019…

Its happened again, 2019 has been another great year for the GBS team and we have been to some amazing places with the Zero’s. There are so many photo’s to share but here are just a few of our favourite photos and moments that we have captured during the year, next year is already looking like it’s going to be another very busy & exciting year for us with lots happening. We have lots of exciting things to share with you all in the new year!

We had the best ever GBS Cars & Coffee event in March which saw the car park overflowing with all sorts of Sports Cars! We look forward to many more successful GBS Cars & Coffee events in 2020.

We attend lots of shows & events throughout the year and this year we were delighted to have the Zero on the Yokohama stand at the Silverstone Classic who are the official tyre partner.

Electric Zero - The GBS concept EV platform: The chassis is bespoke to allow for the concept EV powertrain. Click here to read more on the electric Zero.

We have painted alot of Zero’s this years, which now seems to be a very popular option for the Zero, this is just one of our favourites that we painted for a customer! Click here to see more options that are available on the Zero.

The new GBS & Kit Spares Show room got bigger… You can now view a lot of the options & upgrades that are available for the Zero’s and other Sports Cars, including engine set ups.

Thomas our apprentice has been with us for 4 years now. Thomas is studying at Rotherham College where he attends for 1 day a week. You can read more about Thomas on our Blog. Click here

GBS Team were with the Zero’s at Laguna Seca raceway home of the famous “Corkscrew” complex of corners for the Miatas Reunion at Laguna Seca. Read more.

We are always busy developing new products and our ATR Product range is expanding, the Throttle Bodies, Suspension and Brakes are just some of the favourites for the Zero’s! www.atrproducts.co.uk

Track Days with the Zero’s…. This year we have only been able to do two Track Days one at Donington Park and the other at Blyton Park. Keep checking our event page to see next years Track Days!

Our New GBS Zero demonstrator that is powered by a 2.5 Duratec engine was released in September and was seen on display on our stand at Goodwood Revival for the first time.

Its been a very busy year for Zero kit collections and factory builds, with lots of Zero’s also being exported. There is still several kits being exported and collected over the next few weeks.

The GBS Workshop is always busy and often has a great selection of sports cars in and not always Zero’s. The Ford Escort Mk2 that we currently have has attracted a lot of attention. Click here for more details about our workshop services that we offer.

We hope you can all join us this Saturday (7th December) at the GBS Factory for our last event of the year  which is our Christmas Cars & Coffee event of the year…. The weather is looking good and we will have plenty of mince pies for you all to enjoy… Please see more details on our event page or GBS Facebook page.

Follow the GBS Team on Instagram to see more of what we are upto & behind the scenes… @gbs_cars

Something a little different to a Zero, that we prepared & presented to IVA…

…..Please note that the GBS Factory and Kit Spares Shop will be closed on Friday 15th November, but will be open 10am-2pm on Saturday 16th November……

We offer many workshop services and one of them being the IVA Service which is a very popular service and we often have several Zero’s and other sports cars that are in the workshop for this service. Recently we had this electric Model T vehicle that is a replicas of the famous 1910 Model T Ford in the workshop, it has been with us for several months as there was a lot of work involved including a lot of fabrication, electrical and more to prepare it to the IVA standard. We were pleased that it has now passed and is fully registered and was collected last week by the owner. Before it went we went on a short road test and took a few photos to share with you all. Its being used for tours in the city of Cambridge.
We now have a full workshop again with several Zero’s being prepared and panelled for paint, as well as several nice spec Zero factory builds in progress. We are also pleased to welcome a new member of the team to GBS who will be based in the workshop, David has a strong background in Motorsport, engineering and like all the GBS team a strong passion for all Motorsport.
For more details on our IVA Service and to book your car in for any of our other workshop services please click here or call us now.

GBS Featured in Magazine & Interesting sports cars in the GBS Car Park....

A few months ago we welcomed Editor Steve Hole from TKC Magazine to GBS where he looked around the factory and enjoyed a drive in our new Zero Gen 2 demonstrator. It had been a few years since Steve last visited so a lot has changed and developed. Steve took our new Zero Gen 2 demonstrator out for a test drive, we are very lucky as we have some great roads close to the factory so Steve was able to put the car through it paces to see what he thought….  When Steve arrived back from his test drive in the new Zero he got out the car and shook Richards hand and said “This car is brilliant, that’s all I can say really”. It’s nice to see that the full feature on GBS and our new Zero Gen 2 can now be seen in this month’s TKC Magazine November / December Issue which is out now in the shops.

Our new Zero demonstrator can be seen this weekend (8th-10th November) on our stand at the Classic Motor Show at the NEC along with two other nice Zero’s one of which will be for sale. Follow us on Instagram to see photos during the show and behind the scenes.

Our last GBS Cars & Coffee event was also featured in Complete Kit Car Magazine last month too. Will you be joining us on Saturday 7th December at GBS for our Christmas Cars and Coffee event? Click here for more details

The GBS Workshop often has some very interesting and sometimes unusual cars in, as does the GBS Car park and last week I spotted this little green sports car in the car park.... It was an original Frazer Nash Targa Florio Mk2, which captured the interest of all the GBS Team. We have also recently prepared and presented a very different vehicle to IVA, which some of you may have seen when you visited the GBS Workshop. We will share more on that with you all next week. Click below for more details about the workshop services that we offer.

Rolls-Royce Motor Club visit GBS for a Factory Tour….

We get a lot of enquires for Factory Tours for owners clubs and sports car clubs all over the country, earlier this year we were approached by Henry a GBS Customer who has a Zero Race to ask if we would do a factory tour for  a club he is a club secretary for which is the Rolls Royce Motor Club.

We offer a few Factory Tour dates throughout the year including weekends and evenings and on Saturday we were pleased to welcome 25 members from the Rolls-Royce Motor Club to the GBS factory for a  tour of our facilities with Richard and the GBS team. During their tour they saw a lot of behind the scenes of how our bespoke sports cars and products are produced. Thomas was in our Machine Shop demonstrating what he does on the CNC machines and how parts are designed and manufactured. Two members of the club have built a Zero sports car and it was great to see that one of them arrived in his Zero, despite the heavy rain on the day!

Feed back from the tour was very positive and enjoyed by all, one member emailed to say
GBS is an amazing company. Their engineering exceeded by far my expectations. They can potentially redefine the kit-car and definitely set new standards for the "sevens". Their parts are retrofitted in other "sevens".
It is one of the those stories "if what is available on the market is not good enough, DIY" And all these with very competitive prices. – Anestis G, Rolls-Royce employees Motor Club

The morning generally starts with tea/coffee and biscuits in the GBS Show room then onto the GBS Workshop, Design & Development Room, Machine & Engineering, Clean Room, Kit Spares Store and then back into the showroom for more refreshments, questions and often a test drive in one of our Zero demonstrators.
Our GBS Factory Tours are free but we ask for a kind donation to be made to our chosen charities which are Cancer Research UK and Notts & Lincs Air Ambulance.

We hope that the Rolls Royce Motor Club all enjoyed their visit to GBS and we would like to say thank you for your kind donations that you made on the day. Click here to see a short video that we created of when the Rolls Royce Motor Club members visited us.

For more details on our factory tours that we offer and to look to book one please click here or contact us.

Our next event at the GBS Factory is our Christmas Cars & Coffee event which is happening on Saturday 7th December. You can find more details about this on our events page.

Date for the diary - GBS Christmas Cars & Coffee on Saturday 7th December...

It’s a little bit early we know, but we know that every year December can be a very busy month for everyone with the lead up to Christmas! So we thought we would share this with you all now, the GBS Team would like to invite you all to the GBS Factory on Saturday 7th December for a cup of Tea/Coffee and Mince Pies / Biscuits / Cakes and much more to say Happy Christmas and Thank You for all your support this year.

Last year you may remember that Bernd and the team joined us for the weekend from Germany and we think you will all agree the food (Currywurst, German Sausages in bread rolls along with Gluhwein) they were cooking and serving for us all was excellent and enjoyed by everyone. We are pleased to say that hopefully they will be joining us again to do the same this year.
The GBS showroom will be open from 10am till 2pm as well as the Kit Spares Shop we hope you and your family can come and join us!  Everyone is welcome, there will be plenty of mince pies for you all to enjoy too…. More details about the event will be posted on our events page nearer the time. Why not wrap up warm and come in your Zero and other sports cars, last year we had a busy car park full of sports cars.

The next event for the GBS Team is happening in USA later this week, you can see more details on our event page. Follow us on Instagram @gbs_cars to see photos live from the event. 

New parts added to Kit Spares for you & your Zero….

At the GBS Factory we have a showroom  that is bursting with parts and spares and we are always expanding the range of products that we stock. We have recently added a new range of Alternators and Starter Motors from Powerlite Units.

You now see these on our parts website Kit Spares, visit www.kitspares.co.uk or please come and visit us and see all the parts and spares that we have on display, including the ATR Products range and the ATR Products Upgrade Brake Kit which is now very popular on the Zero’s. Below are some other popular parts that might also be of interest to you.

The Kit Spares Shop is also going to be open later this month at our GBS Cars & Coffee event which is happening on Saturday 21st September at the GBS Factory, we are expecting to be a very busy day. We welcome telephone / emial orders before the big day, then we can get them all ready for you to just collect on the day, as there is often a que at the Kit Spares Shop.

For more details about the GBS Cars & Coffee event and to let us know that you are coming click here… GBS Cars & Coffee event.

The NEW Second Generation Zero Chassis & New GBS Demonstrator….

The new Second Generation Zero chassis has had a very positive response since it was launched a few months ago and the improvements have been noticed. We have created a short video that walks around and talks about the NEW Second Generation Zero Sports Car.

We are also pleased and very excited to be having a new Zero demonstrator very soon. After 12 hard months of development work, our test vehicle is undergoing a transformation to become the new Gen 2 Zero demonstrator. Fitted with all the latest components from GBS and ATR Products and powered by the amazing Ford 2.5L Duratec, this is going to be something special. Keep an eye out for the final result in the next few weeks, we will be sending it off to be painted very soon! You can follow us on Instagram to see more of what we are up to and follow the build of our new Zero demonstrator. Follow us @gbs_cars

Earlier this morning we had a very nice painted Zero arrive back at the factory. We all love the customer’s choice of colour, and we can't wait to see more photos as the build progresses over the next few months, which is being delivered to its new owners who are a Father and Son next week. Another Zero that also arrived back from our paint shop earlier this week is now in our workshop in its build bay for the rest of the build to be completed.

…..The NEW Second Generation Zero…..
Click here to take a look at the video or visit our Zero page for more details.

Yes we offer Finance.... Making it even easier to own a Zero!

We often get asked the question about finance on the Zero’s and products and for details of what we can offer. We are pleased to have partnered up with Pegasus Finance which can give you an instant online quote and even allows you to complete the agreement online.
Rates may vary depending on the loan amount and individual circumstances but for example, for £3,500.00 on finance for the Zero Mazda starter self build kit monthly payments would be around £85.00 spread over 48 months. (depending on the loan amount and individual circumstances)

We are seeing that finance is already proving popular not just for the Zero kits and factory builds but also for parts. You can also Finance parts which could mean you could upgrade your Zero to the new ATR Throttle Bodies or new brake upgrade kit and spread the costs over months/ years.

For more details on the finance with Pegasus please click below or contact us and we will do our best to advice you. 

We also see on forums and social media and get asked about Insurance, who is best to Insure the Zero’s and similar sports cars?….
There are many Insurance companies out there who offer great competitive prices and services for the Zero’s and similar sports cars, but we are pleased to have worked with two popular Insurance companies who offer competitive prices and who we have set up a dealer accounts with.

They are Cherished Vehicle Insurance Service (part of the A-Plan Insurance company) who are a specialist Kit Car Insurance with other benefits which also include Track Day Insurance which might be of interest for a lot of you who do track days in the Zero’s and  Adrian Flux which is another popular Insurance company for the Zero range and other similar sports cars.

Please visit our dedicated website page for Insurance below where you will see more details regarding Insurance and the dealer code / references.