New chassis? New chassis! Hype?

[decryphe]

I just asked again, no updates from the Chinese company, just that it's "still in progress, maybe by end of year". First time I asked they estimated 12 months, now a year later, the estimate is 6 months, so maybe next summer?

[Ivan141]

And they keep posting pictures of stock japanese AE86's to tease with, last vid they had a coupe standing in a line up of new chassis.
I'm not too convinced about the quality of the chassis, have read some negative reviews of the escort's they do. Still it would be good to have a source for
new body parts.

[decryphe]

(07-28-2025 07:39 AM)Ivan141 Wrote:  I'm not too convinced about the quality of the chassis, have read some negative reviews of the escort's they do. Still it would be good to have a source for
new body parts.

If I can build retro-EVs with this chassis, I won't mind if the quality isn't on OEM levels. Solely making it possible to daily a modern 80s car would be enough for me.

[decryphe]

Okay, now the supplier confirmed that the body can now be ordered with a lead-time of approx two months. Single bodies are accepted, so don't worry about the MOQ of 5 that's listed on the page: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/R...17244.html

The pictures of the white painted body are supposedly their newly manufactured 0-series chassis.

[banpei]

I saw a post by Battle Garage earlier this week on the Chassis:
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DR3QUZSD73q/
It's the same car/chassis that was at Sema, so it's not produced for them specifically. The weird thing is that the reproduction seems to have some errors that were due to copies of previous (chassis) repairs on the original, and bad post-scan processing. It's not something they can't fix, but it shows the quality of the product is not something that's sold as "new".

[decryphe]

Oh cool, I'm excited to see what BGRS does with this new chassis. If it's solid enough, I'm really interested in getting a chassis and building a race car out of it.