Fisher (United Kingdom)

The Fury was a British kit car originally designed in 1991 by Jeremy Phillips of Sylva Autokits. It combined retro-inspired styling with modern Escort Mk2 mechanicals and became one of the most successful kit cars of its era, popular in motorsport alongside its sister model, the Sylva Striker. The car’s name was influenced by Phillips’ aviation interests, drawing from the Hawker Fury. Sylva Autokits produced around 150 examples before selling the project in 1994 to Mark Fisher of Fisher Sportscars in Marden, Kent. Fisher sold several hundred kits during his eleven-year tenure before passing the design to Martin Bell’s Kit Car Workshop in Northamptonshire. In 2007, rights to the Fury returned to Kent under BGH Geartech, which operated the design until 2011. That year, former Fisher employee Steve Hughes, trading as Fury Sportscars, acquired the project and moved production to Cranbrook, Kent. By that time, approximately 850 cars in total had been made across all custodians.