While channel hopping last night I came across the car chase sequence from Swordfish. (Travolta & Tuscan). Brought it all back to me just how unique TVRs are.

I had a sequence of 3 (S2, S3, Griff) between '95 and 2006, all used as my every day transport at 10-12k miles per year, so well over a hundred k miles total. I was only let down twice, both times my own fault. I hit flood water in the S2 on the way to the airport once and the engine died. I had to abandon it by the roadside in order to catch my flight. I phoned my wife from the airport, by which time the heat of the engine had dried it out, so she just jumped in and drove it home. Second time was the Griff, drove to work in the fog, left the lights on and flattened the battery. Not a bad record for 3 low volume cars.

My current transport is the ubiquitous 320D! I have recently been toying with the idea of an Evora, but it doesn't quite do it for me the way my TVRs did. The Evora is a lovely car, but I can't help feeling it's trying to be something it isn't. A TVR never needed to try to be anything other than a TVR, they stood on their own merits without aspiring to be something else. They make a positive statement, as opposed to the negative statement made by several marques I could mention. In those 100,000 miles I never got bored with it, every journey was a joy, and there was always a sense of pride seeing it parked outside the office. I don't see any other car that could bring me all that.

Has it taken you six years to work all that out!