TVR are back... and sold out for 2017... You happy about them being back?

pugheaven · 2 Nov 2015 at 23:49

mx0range · 2 Nov 2015 at 23:53

always loved TVR, 4 wheels and a big engine. simple. was awesome to get a ride in a cerbera speed 6 and oh god what a noise!

hurfdurf · 3 Nov 2015 at 16:35

I'm excited for the drama that is going to result from this. There's a lot of potential fall out. I hope people get what they want in the end. Its such a shame TVR didn't go with the crate LS7 engines instead of stubbornly insisting on nonsense.

DRZ · 3 Nov 2015 at 16:42

I find it amazing that people are willing to put down a £5k deposit for a car with absolutely no evidence that it exists, not even a sketch or a final price!

I hope that anyone handing the cash over has done so via a credit card so there's some protection for if (probably when) they go bust and the deposits evaporate.

If they wanted to crowd-fund a car project they could easily have done it and it would have been far more transparent...

Yaayuh! · 3 Nov 2015 at 16:44

They got their **** together when it came to the Sagaris, i was sad to see them disappear.

I love TVR, great cars with great character. My dad has a 350 Wedge and a Cerbera.

timmeh · 3 Nov 2015 at 16:49

I'd love a Sagaris, sadly TVRs aren't allowed in the US, apparently. Oh and I can't afford one.

bledd · 3 Nov 2015 at 17:00

I borrowed my friend's TVR Cerbera, first RWD car I'd driven. Awesome and scary

It's been riddled with issues since he bought it though, door seals, clutch, master cylinder, slave cylinder, 2x smashed driveshafts. He ended up makes his own driveshafts for it as they're expensive or hard to source.

The interior is awesome, very strange driving position, best to be driven in the dry as any damp conditions and the inside will steam up like nobodies business.

That sound though

Idling in 3rd gear is around 60-65 mph

hurfdurf · 3 Nov 2015 at 17:14

Rossi~ said:
They got their **** together when it came to the Sagaris, i was sad to see them disappear.

They really didn't, they still used their own terrible/faulty engines.

Curio · 3 Nov 2015 at 17:23

I'll always have a soft spot for them. My older brother came "this close" to getting a 450 SEAC, but no sooner had he decided, he found out he was going to become a dad.....so that was the end of that

The people a few doors down from where I grew up had a bright yellow 3000m. I used to just stand and stare at it on my way to school.

Housey · 3 Nov 2015 at 17:25

It is a better world with TVR than without it. They are terribly flawed and badly built (they are, no denying it) but they are an event car few match. Get a good one, get it rebuilt with all the right mods done and it's special. I fear the new one will be fanfare followed by more sadness of failure. The world has moved on, a space frame car with plastic bits and badly fitting carpets and interiors will not survive these days, not least when it's a parts bin special as I suspect this one will be. The Speed 6 was flawed, but they sort of worked the bugs out in the TVR community and I believe they can now rebuild to a good level. However my short TVR ownership memories are base on crapping myself in traffic and walking towards it in the morning wondering how many cylinders would fire and if I could get to where I was going without glue intoxication.

Tom_ed1987 · 3 Nov 2015 at 17:46

Housey said:
It is a better world with TVR than without it. They are terribly flawed and badly built (they are, no denying it) but they are an event car few match. Get a good one, get it rebuilt with all the right mods done and it's special. I fear the new one will be fanfare followed by more sadness of failure. The world has moved on, a space frame car with plastic bits and badly fitting carpets and interiors will not survive these days, not least when it's a parts bin special as I suspect this one will be. The Speed 6 was flawed, but they sort of worked the bugs out in the TVR community and I believe they can now rebuild to a good level. However my short TVR ownership memories are base on crapping myself in traffic and walking towards it in the morning wondering how many cylinders would fire and if I could get to where I was going without glue intoxication.

The only cars which get more reliable with age

Housey · 3 Nov 2015 at 17:46

Tom_ed1987 said:
The only cars which get more reliable with age

Ha, true....Triggers Broom though

Yaayuh! · 3 Nov 2015 at 17:50

hurfdurf said:
They really didn't, they still used their own terrible/faulty engines.

I disagree. The reliability has been a stain on their reputation through the years, they really aren't as bad as all that with the late cerbs, tuscans and sagaris compared to the earlier TVRs and revisions. There also quite a big community out there with better mods and parts.

Helios1234 · 3 Nov 2015 at 21:16

A cosworth-tuned Mustang engine in a TVR... YES PLEASE.

Sin_Chase · 3 Nov 2015 at 21:54

Absolutely no enthusiasm for it really. They have a super niche market for certain buyers who are willing to put up with what TVR ownership comes with.

lemonade · 3 Nov 2015 at 22:30

The time is gone for TVR, just let it RIP.

OhEsEcks · 3 Nov 2015 at 22:37

The whole thing reminds me of the Commodore situation were Commodore collapsed, the name, IP, patents and whatever else was bought, sold off, scavenged by vultures and then someone decided they were going to make money off the various brands by releasing some piece of crap under the Amiga or Commodore name hoping nobody would notice. There's all manner of companies trading under various Commodore names (seriously, search for the Commodore Pet phone).

That's what TVR represents to me. Crap with a name that might have once meant something but means nothing now and has no relation to what it once was.

Skeeter · 3 Nov 2015 at 23:22

A guy I'm working with has a TVR. The other day he was telling me about how he doesn't drive it far as it's a pain to remember the process he has to go through in order to start it.

Says it all really.

Helios1234 · 3 Nov 2015 at 23:47

I doubt the new one will have the same issues given its engine is a proven reliable one they're starting from...

Jamauk · 4 Nov 2015 at 07:40

I'd love at some point to own a Griffith. That sound!