I think most of what has been said there is fair comment in terms of design and production of mass parts from an engineering point of view. If I where making a chassis on a mass production run I would not have used 3mm here 5mm there 19x19 25x25 different bushes and so on. How ever the idea of the both the Champion and Gibbs books is that it was never intended to be a mass production 'kit car' it is ment to be a guide to building 1 car personaly from scratch. The fact that people are selling pre made chassis, running gear and fibreglass body work is there choice to do so for a very limited market.
'Kit car builder' seams to be an established manufacturer and I have a few ideas of who this might be, but 'he' seams to have had his nose put out of place by having to spend more time and money rejiging to follow a market trend. The 'locost' had a very good 15yr + run and was adapted to suit mx5, sierra, nissan etc running gear, the roadster will no dought go the same way in delopment with the mx5, bmw and numerous others yet to be seen.
Every market has to change over time as parts either become harder to find or legislation changes to suit new laws, this means change to every business involved in producing parts related to the market.
I think that post smells a little of sour grapes perhaps?
Every thing in this post is just my take on how I see it , no offence is intended to any body who may be involved in any of the above.
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