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THE BUREAU
An engineering bureau since 2015
Designers and race mechanics in one workshop. We draw the car, build it and run it at the track — with no contractor between the drawing and the grid.
- 90%
- of production localised
- 30+
- drivers in 527s in the 2024 RSKG season
- 200+
- 527s built — the country’s largest single-make class
- 12
- cars a year: the Project Seven production limit
- 14
- partners and suppliers
How it happened
2015
November
The decision to build our own car
Gleb Mishugin, Viktor Zavadsky and the Lotus Club set out to build a lightweight sports car in the spirit of Colin Chapman’s Lotus Seven.
2016
March
Two prototypes in four months
From November to March the team built two pre-production cars from scratch — from the frame to the pedal box.
April to December
Testing, RAF certification and a bureau of our own
Nine months on track and in committees. In November 2016 the team became an engineering bureau.
2017
KM-1701 homologation and series production
The 527 receives RAF homologation for series production and lines up as the CN1600 class.
2021
December
Project EVA begins
The bureau’s first all-electric car: a carbon-fibre monocoque under a barchetta body.
2023
August
Project Seven begins
Eight years of running the 527 feed into a car of a different class — GTX.
2024
March
The 527 prototype is built
Electric, 300 hp and 500 Nm, a 20 kWh traction battery: 200 km on the road or 15 minutes on track. It stays a one-off.
2025
May
The 527 leaves the bureau
By agreement of the parties, patent No. 2672231 was sold. The shop is freed up for a new prototype of the bureau’s own.
2026
April
Project Seven enters production
Homologation card KM-2701, RAF 54SC_27. Production is capped at twelve cars a year.
The bureau’s projects
Project Seven
GTX-class racing car
In series production since April 2026
An alternative to the GT class: a spaceframe with aramid panels, a Formula 1 HALO, 950 kg. R& D from August 2023 to April 2026.
- 950 kg, BMW B58 400 hp, ZF 8HP, Motec, AIM
- RAF 54SC_27 and KM-2701
527
CN1600 racing prototype
Built by the bureau from March 2016 to April 2025
The country’s most affordable production circuit car and the largest class in Russian motorsport.
- 500 kg, VAZ 21126, 197 hp
- RAF 54SC_17 and KM-1701
EVA
Electric prototype
Pre-production prototype, in development since December 2021
A barchetta-bodied sports car on a carbon-fibre monocoque. Rear- or all-wheel drive, a design weight of 1400 kg.
- Motors from 450 to 1800 kW
- A 65 kWh battery
Milling Work
Contract milling
A working production line
A four-axis machine with a 4 × 2 metre bed. The same equipment makes the tooling for our own cars.
- Carbon fibre, fibreglass, composites
- Aluminium, MDF, plywood, acrylic
