Ginetta G50

Among the 12 Ginetta Cars entries in the MotorJury library, the Ginetta G50 holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 2008. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Ginetta G50 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2000s were the decade of electronics — stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids arrived while platform-sharing consolidated the industry into a handful of giants. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Nissan Nissan 370Z, the Tesla Tesla Roadster, the Hyundai Hyundai i30 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Ginetta G50 reads like this: the record lists its engine as G50: 3.5 L Ford Duratec V6 engine / V6 / G50 GT4: 3.7 L Ford Duratec V6 / G50Z: 3.4 L Zytek ZG348 V8 engine / V8; quoted output is G50: 300-340 hp / G50 GT4: 355 hp / G50Z: 490 hp; kerb weight is recorded at 945 kg / 1100 kg (G50Z); drive goes through 6-speed Hewland sequential manual / 6-speed Quaife E60G sequential manual; the layout is Front-engine, rear wheel drive. Worked together, those figures give roughly 53 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Ginetta Cars story

Within Ginetta Cars's own catalogue the Ginetta G50 sits alongside the Ginetta F400, the Ginetta G15, the Ginetta G32, the Ginetta G4. The record names the Ginetta G20 (Race and Road versions) as its predecessor and the Ginetta G55 (Race version) / Ginetta G60/Ginetta G40 / G40 (Road version) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Lawrence Tomlinson. Assembly is recorded at Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Ginetta G50 was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.