Team Modena (Modena Wycombe Ltd)

 Automotive  manufacturer of High Wycombe, England;United Kingdom From 1975 on.

Modena Wycombe Ltd. (Team Modena) is a car workshop and a car racing team in High Wycombe, England . The family business was founded in 1975.

History

Modena Wycombe is engaged in the sale and maintenance of high quality sports cars and supercars. The Modena team is independent in the Le Mans Series in which it competes with an adapted for the class "LMGT1" Aston Martin DB9 .

For motor sports, the company manufactures accessories, such as carbon fiber , itself. Based on their experience in this area, companies such as McLaren , Alfa Romeo , BMW and Yamaha also worked together with Modena Wycombe.

In 1994 Modena Wycombe built the Schuppan 962CR under the direction of the Australian racing driver Vern Schuppan . A Japanese car dealership acted as lender, because Schuppan was successful especially in Japan.The Schuppan 962CR is a street-legal super sports car based on the Porsche 962 racing car , from which only the engine was taken over largely unchanged. Only six examples of the extraordinary vehicle were built, with a list price of 1.5 million US dollars. Other sources even speak of 2.5 million US dollars, which would have made this vehicle one of the most expensive new cars of its time.

After the payments for two cars delivered to Japan failed to materialize and the total costs of the project exceeded the proceeds, Schuppan had to file for bankruptcy. The "962CR" remained the only car designed by him.