Auto Fabrica

Auto Fabrica’s story begins in 2011, in a single-car garage in Southend-on-Sea, where brothers Bujar and Gazmend Muharremi set out to build the motorcycle they couldn’t buy. Drawing on their backgrounds in industrial and automotive design, they established a working language that balanced form and function from the outset, an approach that remains the foundation of every build the workshop produces today.

The move into a proper workshop brought Auto Fabrica investment in specialist tooling, including the English wheel that unlocked the hand-formed aluminium bodywork that has since become the most recognisable signature of an Auto Fabrica build. Smooth, sculpted and shaped entirely by hand, the metalwork gives each machine a coherence and a presence that sets it apart from almost anything else in the custom motorcycle world. From the Kawasaki-based Type 1 onwards, each successive build has pushed that design language further.

The Type 6 appeared on the cover of the second edition of The Ride, and both the Type 6 and Type 8 were selected for display at the MB&F gallery. Consistent coverage across prominent custom motorcycle platforms reflects a workshop whose releases attract serious editorial attention.

The Type 11 represented a significant shift in Auto Fabrica’s design trajectory, conceived as a radical, contemporary machine drawing on concept design principles and the functional aesthetics of automotive and motorcycle racing. Built around the Yamaha XSR900, it exists in two distinct forms: Prototype One, a track-focused build featuring hand-laid carbon fibre, precision-machined components and a hand-formed aluminium tank and fairing that push the workshop’s fabrication capabilities to their limits, and Prototype Two, the road-going counterpart offered in strictly limited numbers and built to order for individual clients. Together, they heralded the clearest expression of where Auto Fabrica was headed.

Every stage of a commission, from the first conversation through concept, prototyping and fabrication to final delivery, is handled entirely in-house. That matters if you’re serious about what you’re commissioning. It means a single, consistent vision applied to your build from start to finish, with no handoffs, no compromises and no dilution of the standard that made Auto Fabrica’s reputation in the first place.

For riders and collectors considering a significant commission, Auto Fabrica represents one of the more compelling options in the UK. Now on the Type 26, the workshop shows no sign of retreating to safer ground. Its builds are sculptural without being impractical, minimal without being sparse, and finished to a standard that rewards the kind of close inspection a motorcycle of this calibre deserves.