[Lucky@LeMans]

You won't find them using the term " Kit Car " even if that is effectively what those builds amount to. The higher quality, higher end kit manufacturers that had aspirations to move forward, onward and upward moved away from the traditional Kit Car scene years ago. Some were never really part of it and didn't want to be associated with the amateur / home built aspect of the scene. A lot of these cars were bespoke cars built by their owners / ultra small time manufacturers from the ground up and hence creating original cars in their own right or a very limited run rather than a purchased body / chassis from a kit car supplier. It wouldn't be fair to put them in the same basket but to the ill informed they are one and the same because they aren't mainstream, household names.