Will TVR ever sell in the USA

[harley]

Will they ever do it? When will they do it? Why won't they do it? What needs to be done to do it?

[fizz]

Will we ever land a man on Mars?

[hydra]

No, don't think so.

[bermuda]

They ahve ample opportunity and failed to seize the moment. Forget TVR, but good luck at LeMans all the same!

[boosted ls1]

Don't they need an emmissions friendly engine like the LS something?

[harley]

They need gumption!

[gixxer1000]

My old dealer (Brandon Motors in Edinburgh - now without the franchise) told me they did in fact once try to start in the USA, but gave up "due to the amount of hassle it took".

Could be urban-legend (dog-in-the-microwave) stuff of course.

[kip]

Then why didn't TVR say that?

[harley]

I guess before TVR needs gumption, they need reliability with the Speed 6 engine.

[al27]

Don't you think TVR has sufficiently debugged the Speed 6 engine?
Where is Ben Samuelson on this one?
I think TVR will sell in the USA when TVR has to become Euro compliant--at that point it will be sink or swim and TVR will view the USA as a good affluent market to do business in.

[kkkaty]

TVR needs to make the Speed 6 engine reliable or, stick in a Ford V8 quadcam and get on with it.
When TVR has a fleet of Tuscans doing 12,000 miles a year with no MAJOR reliability issues, TVR will do it.
Until then, dream dream dream dream

[v8tvr]

kkkaty said: TVR needs to make the Speed 6 engine reliable or, stick in a Ford V8 quadcam and get on with it.
When TVR has a fleet of Tuscans doing 12,000 miles a year with no MAJOR reliability issues, TVR will do it.
Until then, dream dream dream dream

i dont think we want a rubbish US engine , i think the sp6 is a great engine

[fizz]

I wouldn't exactly knock the quad cam...

The Speed 6 is a great engine--but do you honestly think the engine is good for 100,000 miles with no major work needing to be done? What about the service intervals that the Speed 6 requires? The Speed 6 is a great engine--but it doesn't appear to be a marathon runner like the quad cam, M3 engine, NSX, etc.

Prove me wrong!

[v8tvr]

fizz said: I wouldn't exactly knock the quad cam...

The Speed 6 is a great engine--but do you honestly think the engine is good for 100,000 miles with no major work needing to be done? What about the service intervals that the Speed 6 requires? The Speed 6 is a great engine--but it doesn't appear to be a marathon runner like the quad cam, M3 engine, NSX, etc.

Prove me wrong!

I understand what you are saying but the SP6 was never built with 100,000 in mind, it is superficially a race engine....am i wrong?

[v8tvr]

fizz said: I wouldn't exactly knock the quad cam...

The Speed 6 is a great engine--but do you honestly think the engine is good for 100,000 miles with no major work needing to be done? What about the service intervals that the Speed 6 requires? The Speed 6 is a great engine--but it doesn't appear to be a marathon runner like the quad cam, M3 engine, NSX, etc.

I must admit there seems to be a lot of very major concerns recently on the SP6 engine, even i am getting nervous

Prove me wrong!

[mikeylad]

v8tvr said:

fizz said: I wouldn't exactly knock the quad cam...

The Speed 6 is a great engine--but do you honestly think the engine is good for 100,000 miles with no major work needing to be done? What about the service intervals that the Speed 6 requires? The Speed 6 is a great engine--but it doesn't appear to be a marathon runner like the quad cam, M3 engine, NSX, etc.

Prove me wrong!

I understand what you are saying but the SP6 was never built with 100,000 in mind, it is superficially a race engine....am i wrong?

it might be a race engine but its not in a race car. its in a road car.

the inhabitants of the land of customer service will not stand for this. they'll sit. at home. writing vitriolic letters to blackpool demanding money with menaces.

it'll be akin to self-accellerating audi's all over again. potentially disasterous.

just MO.

[v8tvr]

mikeylad said:

v8tvr said:

fizz said: I wouldn't exactly knock the quad cam...

The Speed 6 is a great engine--but do you honestly think the engine is good for 100,000 miles with no major work needing to be done? What about the service intervals that the Speed 6 requires? The Speed 6 is a great engine--but it doesn't appear to be a marathon runner like the quad cam, M3 engine, NSX, etc.

Prove me wrong!

I understand what you are saying but the SP6 was never built with 100,000 in mind, it is superficially a race engine....am i wrong?

it might be a race engine but its not in a race car. its in a road car.

the inhabitants of the land of customer service will not stand for this. they'll sit. at home. writing vitriolic letters to blackpool demanding money with menaces.

it'll be akin to self-accellerating audi's all over again. potentially disasterous.

just MO.

I starting to think you might be right

[thirsty]

[quote i dont think we want a rubbish US engine , i think the sp6 is a great engine

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Rubbish US engine? me thinks you got some Dover chalk in your head. The speed six is well known for being UNRELIABLE. Meanwhile, GM (chevy) has built more small block V8s than all other engines combined ! (I made that up but it sounds good).

[v8tvr]

thirsty said: [quote i dont think we want a rubbish US engine , i think the sp6 is a great engine

Rubbish US engine? me thinks you got some Dover chalk in your head. The speed six is well known for being UNRELIABLE. Meanwhile, GM (chevy) has built more small block V8s than all other engines combined ! (I made that up but it sounds good).

I wont say whats in yours for fear of being thrown off

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[fizz]

isn't/wasn't the quad cam the engine of choice for Panoz, Marcos Mantis (sigh) and the Mangusta/MG?

The engine didn't hurt them...