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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 homologation limit
- 14
- partners and suppliers this season
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 — the CN3500.
2024
March
The electric 527
A 300 hp, 500 Nm prototype with 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, production and patent No. 2672231 were sold. The shop is freed up for the bureau’s own prototype.
2026
April
Project Seven enters production
Homologations RAF 54SC_26 and KM-2601. Production is capped at twelve cars a year.
The bureau’s projects
Project Seven
CN3500 racing prototype
In series production since April 2026
An alternative to the GT class: a spaceframe with aramid panels, a Formula 1 HALO, 800 kg. Developed from August 2023 to April 2026.
- 800 kg, BMW B58, 400 hp
- RAF 54SC_26 and KM-2601
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
