Marcos Reviews
Marcos was a sport car manufacturer. The company was founded in 1959 by Jem Marsh and Frank Costin. Frank Costin had earlier worked on the De Havilland Mosquito figher-bombers and from there he got the idea to use plywood for the chassis. The Marcos GTS was a version of the new Mantis, but powered by 2 litre Rover engines. The top version was the 200 bhp (150 kW) turbo version. The GTS evolved into the Marcos Mantaray, but now with 4.6 Rover V8 as well as the 2 litre Rovers. The top car of Marcos is currently the Marcos Mantis GT with supercharger that push the up to 500 bhp (320 kW). The race car production is located in Holland while the road cars is made in Britain.