Category: What’s New

Grassroots Motorsports Magazine 818S Build Article #4!

Tim Suddard and his staff at Grassroots Motorsports Magazine have documented the build of their Factory Five 818S street car in pages of the magazine.  This month is chapter 3 of "Some Assembly Required".  Click on the links below to read the articles, or better yet, visit www.grassrootsmotorsports.com to sign-up…Read More

AutoWeek and AutoBlog Tag Team 818 Features

The newest Factory Five, the 818 Sports Car, entered production 8 months ago in June 2013 and we've shipped over 160 units so far!  The car has received a good amount of attention in the press and with customers.  This past week, Autoweek and Autoblog magazine put out features on…Read More

Factory Five 818 Joins GTM at Experience Aviation Non-Profit

World-record setting pilot Barrington Irving was the youngest and the first African-American pilot to fly solo around the world.  Barrington's charity organization named "Experience Aviation" teaches under-privileged inner-city youth valuable skills and self-confidence.  The Factory Five GTM was their first automotive project and the car has a rematch race against…Read More

Factory Five Wins “Best of the Best” Award!

The Factory Five booth featured our Mk4 Roadster, 818S Sports Car, Type 65 Coupe, and '33 Hot Rod. The 2014 show season officially started this past weekend as the Factory Five road show headed to Springfield, MA for Frank Maratta's Custom Auto Show and Race-A-Rama.  Factory Five tech guys Tony…Read More

Hewlett Packard Case Study: Factory Five Racing

Our work with Hewlett Packard and SolidWorks goes back years, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the new 818 would not have been possible without the integration of HP hardware and SolidWorks software.  Recently, the company completed a case study on Factory Five Racing and our use…Read More

Factory Five Customer Mark P.'s Awesome Mk4

Factory Five customer Mark P. shared on The Factory Five Forum the other day that his Mk4 Roadster was selected by the Gateway C-car Club as the Car of the Month! Mark received his Mk4 back in April of 2011, had his first start in September of 2012 followed shortly…Read More

Factory Five Community Grows in Puerto Rico!

I met Victor G. back in 2011 when he visited from Puerto Rico.  Victor had already built his Mk3 and had won a good number of car show trophies on the island.  Since he was visiting all the way from Puerto Rico, I spent the afternoon showing him around the…Read More

StreetSideAuto.com Profiles Factory Five 818

Andy Sheehan from StreetSideAuto.com wrote a nice article about the new Factory Five 818.  Read the full article here. "That’s why I get all itchy when I start thinking about building my own 818. It’s not just painfully fast and agile, it’s accessible. And when I actually saw one, a well-worn…Read More