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Cacatous
Original Poster
2,906 posts
142 months
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ajp70
495 posts
55 months
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I don't think I'll be trading in my Cerbera for a wind turbine.
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alex_gray255
3,018 posts
74 months
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Hmm, wonder where the Multipart contract to supply parts now stands...
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sgrimshaw
3,074 posts
119 months
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So he still thinks the name is worth something in it's own right ... but you'd have to pay dearly to get it from his comment. It's worth sweet f  k all as a name in the Wind Turbine market so why not let it go at a nominal fee if someone wants it.
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spitfire4v8
1,306 posts
50 months
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who are Performance Engines ?
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900T-R
18,560 posts
126 months
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spitfire4v8 said: who are Performance Engines ? Beats me, but then there were a few inaccuracies in that Autocar newspiece, anyway... I'm sure that 'GT350' would have been a T350, and AFAIK the man's surname is spelt Smolenski...
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heightswitch
3,413 posts
119 months
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We just need a small outfit to start up in Blackpool and use the other letters of the name for a new chapter...Job Done..who needs to spend millions on 3 letters. The new car should be called an REO first model..."Speedwagon" !! Or what about just calling the new venture..Wilkinson Cars Ltd !!!
Make a big publicity Launch with some of the old staff and make a big issue about not using the brand due to Russian indifference...
Isn't that what Prince did in the mid 80's
N.
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900T-R
18,560 posts
126 months
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GTF?  or could one hypthetically, get away with calling the company 'Not the new TVR'?
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LordGrover
18,607 posts
81 months
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Apart from we enthusiasts, I'm not sure the TVR 'brand' has any marketable value these days.
Joe Public typically thinks they're uneconomical, expensive, unreliable kit cars that smell of glue and damp canoes. Most like to see them, but none of them would buy one.
Our Russian 'saviour' has only made things worse despite, I'm sure, his good intentions.
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900T-R
18,560 posts
126 months
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LordGrover said: Apart from we enthusiasts, I'm not sure the TVR 'brand' has any marketable value these days.
Joe Public typically thinks they're uneconomical, expensive, unreliable kit cars that smell of glue and damp canoes. Most like to see them, but none of them would buy one. And that's exactly why the brand has considerable marketable value. It's the counter culture brand of automotive, and the more homogenised the automotive landscape gets, the higher its equity will be. 
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cuzzaluva
68 posts
97 months
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His lack of experience and knowledge in the car industry and general
business acumen shines through in his article quotes.
Probably best if he goes into turbines as he's used to blowing a lot of hot air.
If anybody has seen his custom made black TVR, that really does some him up.
Don't worry the TVR name is not dead, its owned by everybody who has one.
And will continue long after this oligarch.
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V8 GRF
5,796 posts
79 months
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spitfire4v8 said: who are Performance Engines ? Wrong name, I assume they mean Power Performance i.e. the company formerly known as TVR Power.
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Mrs_T
1,514 posts
118 months
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I think it would be appropriate for the rights to the brand TVR to be given to the TVRCC as I don't see what use Smolensky has for it. The company might not be producing cars anymore but the TVRs that were on the track at the Le Mans Classic show just how much we love these cars and I don't see that changing any time soon. Smolensky had the opportunity to create something unique and that has gone for good. Do the decent thing and let it go.
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JVaughan
5,204 posts
152 months
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how about a new company called "GLF Sports Cars" .. "Goes like F00k" :hehe
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DonkeyApple
12,007 posts
38 months
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Good.
That website was written by a semi literate lackey and the product was pointless when existing UK firms were already doing it.
People simply do not want to do business with NS and probably wouldn't want to do business with an venture that he was revealed to be involved in.
We have the cars, we have the history, we have the specialists. Now we have the final piece, the silence of the company.
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900T-R
18,560 posts
126 months
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Mrs_T said: I think it would be appropriate for the rights to the brand TVR to be given to the TVRCC as I don't see what use Smolensky has for it. Or license them for an indefinite period and use on anything automotive.
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MPoxon
2,905 posts
42 months
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Mrs_T said: I think it would be appropriate for the rights to the brand TVR to be given to the TVRCC as I don't see what use Smolensky has for it. The company might not be producing cars anymore but the TVRs that were on the track at the Le Mans Classic show just how much we love these cars and I don't see that changing any time soon. Smolensky had the opportunity to create something unique and that has gone for good. Do the decent thing and let it go. +1
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Walford
834 posts
35 months
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Can see the logic for the wind turbines
They are not going to be short of "Hot Air"
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DonkeyApple
12,007 posts
38 months
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Walford said: Can see the logic for the wind turbines
They are not going to be short of "Hot Air" With a unique feature that injects fresh urine out the cone.
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V8 GRF
5,796 posts
79 months
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DonkeyApple said: With a unique feature that injects fresh urine out the cone. I'd hate to be party to the process that came up with that idea ....  
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