PGO speedster from France

Been around for years their latest power train is a 5 speed gear box and BMW engine

Yes I am aware of this brand... kind of cool.

New to me. Anyone ever see one in the U.S.?

Something about the proportions look off to me. It's more like an Audi TT than a Speedster, somehow.

I like the modern updates.  The Hemera shooting break not so much.  6 speed with 1.6 Turbo BMW - bet it scoots.

Is the photo that makes it look taller/shorter?

looks like a TT

The Hemera version looks especially strange.

Yes, been listed here for over a decade.
https://www.speedsterowners.co...ges/makersspeedsters

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The Speedster shape works because it is small and simple.  The PGO add a bunch of superfluous stuff to make it look modern, then jacks it up too high and adds big wheels.  All the added stuff is too much for such a small car.

And that Hemera looks like they took the roof off of a Hyundai Veloster.  No.  Just no.

Personally I like the look of it. Much better than trying to fit a 356 body on a Boxster.  But the question is has anyone seen one? Quality of build? IM or Beck league? Just curious about this car that I only now have heard of.
(I'm not  seriously thinking of one. I imagine importing, then getting tag title locally would be a battle I am  not up for. I had enough of a fight with my IM.)

@Lane Anderson posted:

The Speedster shape works because it is small and simple.  The PGO add a bunch of superfluous stuff to make it look modern, then jacks it up too high and adds big wheels.  All the added stuff is too much for such a small car.

And that Hemera looks like they took the roof off of a Hyundai Veloster.  No.  Just no.

The PGO line is definitely French.

To my eye, the Speedster looks like the Little Tykes edition of a 'toon-town Speedster pedal-car. The windshield is very, very wrong, and sits very nearly bolt upright. As Lane notes, the big wheels with plenty of clearance makes it seem as if the car has a hankering for some "4-wheel fever!". It seems as if somebody should call the Oregon Trail Foundation, because I think we found the stolen wheels from the Conestoga Wagon display.

The actual shape of the rest of the thing looks like the hands of God reached down from heaven to squeeze the back and front ends of a clay model of a CMC widebody together by 25%, which squished everything upward, and made a low/sleek profile look top-heavy and fat. It's the fatter, jollier version of a Speedster. The little air intakes look very, very out of place - and I've got to know what the circular indentation between those vents and the front of the wheel-well is, because it looks very much like a hole for a giant wind-up key, which fits with the design ethos of the rest of the car.

I'm pretty sure "Hemera" must be French for "Hemorrhoid".

As Ed said, the proportions are just slightly off and Lane's comment- "a bunch of superfluous stuff to make it look modern, then jacks it up too high and adds big wheels" interrupts the simple, iconic lines of the car.

If you could find one of those big wind up keys that people used to put on the back of VW beetles years ago and slap one on any of them it would be the perfect aftermarket accessory.

I own a clown car...but those even a clown would avoid.

Of course that's just one guys opinion and not valid in several states and the District of Columbia.

As Stan said, it looks as if the body was put in a large vise front to back, and squeezed together.

The proportions are terrible.  It has the look of a child's pedal car. 

Interior is a little over done.  Check out solution for windup window sealing.  One of the things it looses is the light weight of our replica speedsters.  I like looks but it is probably like driving an Audi TT.

Here's link to specs. Takes them 180 hours to build.  Mid-transverse engine.  Alpaca convertible top.

PGO Speedster RSR : 2003 | Cartype

History - Started 1980. Bought bodies from Belgium APAL.  Porsche sued them in 2004 for 356 copyright infringement. Production stopped but case was reversed in 2005 against Porsche.

PGO | Cartype

If Mini built a speedster