The Italia was designed by Jim Simpson. Jim worked for Mercedes, Saab and Ferrari before opening his own restoration shop, Contemporary Classics International, some 25 years ago.

Jim’s background with European performance cars, and a reputation for quality earned him a commission to design and build the ’NARDI Blue Ray III’ from the world famous Nardi organisation to help them celebrate their 60th anniversary.

Having worked on some of the most desirable cars in the world and with a dream of styling his own creations, Jim designed something fresh but with a flavour of the 1960’s, Italian super cars, thus the Italia was born. So whilst the Italia is not a replica of any vehicle, it takes styling cues from the cars of that era to give a perfectly balanced, retro design.

Having produced more than 60-100 Italias in the US and in Japan the Italia is now available in the UK, enter Italia Cars.

Italia Cars now have the sole rights to produce and sell the Italia throughout Europe. The kit will be produced in England and sold throughout Europe.

The MX5 needs no introduction, having gained the accolade of being the most popular sports car ever produced, and for good reason. Despite being much maligned in the UK for being aimed at the softer market it has been applauded by the motoring press all over the world as one of the best handling, supremely balanced and reliable sports cars ever built.

The MX5 has been in production for over 15 years, the MK1 version until 1997, after over 400,000 had been produced globally. All models either come with 1.6 or 1.8 twin cam engines and a few were retro fitted with turbochargers or superchargers which are still available, in kit form, today.