New TVR still under wraps! (Vol. 2)
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crosseyedlion said:
https://youtu.be/uhYEdD94vH0
I may start playing with these in my workshop with a view to build an electric Griff...
I may start playing with these in my workshop with a view to build an electric Griff...
cool.Gazzab said:
baconsarney said:
I cannot for the life of me see any appeal in the idea of an EV TVR......................
But maybe some people will. Can you imagine the conversation:‘Darling I am looking at buying an expensive new sports car...’
If the sentence is finished with ‘it’s electric’ instead of ‘...it’s a V8’ then that might win over support from the home office.
For me the whole ethos of TVR is it’s ‘rebellious’ nature, the engine, the noise, the manual box... even the smell... with ICE cars there is a clear difference (ok not always) between a family car and a sports car... I think that difference shrinks to almost meaningless with EV...
Just my personal opinion
Gazzab said:
If the sentence is finished with ‘it’s electric’ instead of ‘...it’s a V8’ then that might win over support from the home office.
While waiting for the Griffith, I bought an electric vehicle - told the wife it's powered by a 6.2L duracell battery which just needs battery juice quite frequently 
I admired people's ambition and hope in this TVR relaunch, but I have always felt it was blind faith, though with good intent.
This is never and was never going to happen and I said that from the announcement.
If I am proved wrong in the long run that is good news, but I fear that is one in a billion.
The car industry is littered with blind ambition, full of attached names and promises and this was a classic example of it.
This is never and was never going to happen and I said that from the announcement.
If I am proved wrong in the long run that is good news, but I fear that is one in a billion.
The car industry is littered with blind ambition, full of attached names and promises and this was a classic example of it.
Housey said:
I admired people's ambition and hope in this TVR relaunch, but I have always felt it was blind faith, though with good intent.
This is never and was never going to happen and I said that from the announcement.
If I am proved wrong in the long run that is good news, but I fear that is one in a billion.
The car industry is littered with blind ambition, full of attached names and promises and this was a classic example of it.
Might as well be ‘New Unicorn Under Wraps’ now This is never and was never going to happen and I said that from the announcement.
If I am proved wrong in the long run that is good news, but I fear that is one in a billion.
The car industry is littered with blind ambition, full of attached names and promises and this was a classic example of it.
unrepentant said:
Gazzab said:
An EVs batteries will overheat and need rests between fast runs.
Who told you that? We were ragging I-Pace's around a race track in California last year and they were going non stop from morning to late afternoon day after day. No issues whatsoever with over heating.Gazzab said:
unrepentant said:
Gazzab said:
An EVs batteries will overheat and need rests between fast runs.
Who told you that? We were ragging I-Pace's around a race track in California last year and they were going non stop from morning to late afternoon day after day. No issues whatsoever with over heating.Besides, it’s actually an utterly ridiculous measure for comparison. Why would anyone ever need the ability to run numerous back to back to back 0-60 (or whatever) runs? It’s just not something anyone ever needs to do, so engineering it to do it is practically a total waste of effort.
As far as folks saying electric isn’t the future and you’d never buy electric, I’m afraid you will be left completely behind. I just bought an e-golf for the missis, nothing special at all as far as EV’s go. But for what we use it for its quite simply devastatingly effective. There is no way in hell that EV’s are not the future. It’s an emerging technology and they’re already this good! Once the tech has matured a bit more, you’d have to be willfully ignorant to think otherwise.
I still enjoy my V8 Audi, my Tuscan S, and my (twin) V8 boat, but I’m under absolutely zero illusions that such things will go the way of steam power really rather quickly.
Exactly this ^^^^
Old cars, old planes, old locomotives are lovely. The smell, the nostalgia, etc.
But would I really want to fly to New York on an old Clipper and take so much longer to get there? Would I really want to cross France in a 1950s MGA? Or travel to Rome on a steam train? Well, yes. But not for anything other than fun and only probably once.
You can argue that your TVR only comes out when it's dry and sunny, but they won't sell enough like that to be sustainable.
Old cars, old planes, old locomotives are lovely. The smell, the nostalgia, etc.
But would I really want to fly to New York on an old Clipper and take so much longer to get there? Would I really want to cross France in a 1950s MGA? Or travel to Rome on a steam train? Well, yes. But not for anything other than fun and only probably once.
You can argue that your TVR only comes out when it's dry and sunny, but they won't sell enough like that to be sustainable.
Whilst blindly ignoring the lack of EV infrastructure, where a lot of the power comes from in the first place and the massive environmental cost of producing the batteries.
But hey, instant acceleration, am I right?
(Yes, all those issues are resolvable, but not quickly with the oil companies pulling it back.
But hey, instant acceleration, am I right?
(Yes, all those issues are resolvable, but not quickly with the oil companies pulling it back.
N7GTX said:
V6 Pushfit said:
Snakes said:
Apparently, there's a new update.
Facts information details!!!!
They said they were positively surprised that the last one didn't make it neither here nor to FB and kindly asked to keep it that way (well knowing that they couldn't do anything about it about it anyway). Sounds reasonable to me and i honor that.
bullittmcqueen said:
Both
They said they were positively surprised that the last one didn't make it neither here nor to FB and kindly asked to keep it that way (well knowing that they couldn't do anything about it about it anyway). Sounds reasonable to me and i honor that.
What a ridiculous charadeThey said they were positively surprised that the last one didn't make it neither here nor to FB and kindly asked to keep it that way (well knowing that they couldn't do anything about it about it anyway). Sounds reasonable to me and i honor that.
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