

It is about designing and manufacturing a small sports vehicle intended for the consumer, while remaining within an affordable budget of less than 65 k €. (See our sidebar) But this time the challenge is different. And he knows what he's talking about, having been involved in the design of competition vehicles for almost 20 years. “ I want to offer light, dynamic and sporty vehicles that provide real driving pleasure,” explains Bertrand Lesage. Certainly Lesage Motors is not a general car maker, but a niche manufacturer who favors the pleasure of driving, by offering small roadsters typically in the lineage of the Morgan and other Lotus Seven/Caterhams, dear to our British cousins. In a sought-after mobility market, the birth of a new car manufacturer in France is a real event.

The editor thus intends to help a small structure which is embarking on automobile manufacturing with thermal and electric versions of a small roadster dedicated to the pleasure of driving. Datakit provides Lesage Motors with a license of CrossManager to allow it to import files in STEP format to SolidWorks.
