Evanta Barchetta gets revealed at Goodwood Revival

The Evanta Motor Company has revealed the Evanta Barchetta at the Goodwood Revival this weekend, a retro 2-seat Roadster with a 6.2 litre V8.

There’s definitely an appetite for properly built, low-run retro sports cars – from proper roadsters to GTs like the David Brown’s Speedback – so the arrival of the Evanta Barchetta at the Goodwood Revival, looking like a properly sorted (and built) retro-styled Roadster, should be greeted with enthusiasm, rather than moans about ‘Garden Shed’ cars.

That’s because the Evanta Barchetta is the result of a collaboration between Afzil Kahn – he of Bradford’s Kahn Design – and Evanta’s Ant Anstead, with low volume experience and expertise coming from Ant’s Evanta and design and engineering from Kahn. So it should be properly sorted.

Looking like a 1950s Roadster – which is no bad thing – the Evanta Barchetta is influenced by Italian and British sports car design of the period, with sleek, sweeping curves and an appeal that’s timeless.

Built around a tubular chassis, the Evanta Barchetta comes with a 6.2 litre V8 from GM delivering something around 450bhp with either a manual or auto gearbox and promises agility and real performance.

You can have the pretty new body made in Kevlar for around £125,000, or if you prefer aluminium you can – but it’ll cost you another £40k.

Just 99 Evanta Barchettas are being built overt the next few years, so if you want one you’d better get a shake on.