RE: New TVR Griffith - official

[l354uge]

The Vambo said:

I think we're going to have to agree to disagree, it looks like a late 90's Pugeot to me.

Jesus Christ that looks worse than anything even subaru can conjure up! 90s was a bad time for interior design

[A1VDY]

braddo said:

fatboy18 said:

Yea, I guess this is crap in your opinion 18yr old car now

It's OK, certainly not bad enough that it would sway my decision on buying a Viper. I just find it very surprising that someone would think that interior is OK but the new TVR's isn't.

Looks like it went through Halfords front door and out the back..

[Kitchski]

I quite like the new interior. I'm not sure about the air vents or gauge cluster, but I like the symmetry and the 'floating' centre console. Also really like the gearlever and steering wheel (straight out of a McLaren by the look of it). Doorcards also clever.

The only part of the car I'm not mad on is the front end. I like the rear a lot, and I quite like the side profile.

As for the Viper comparisons, you've seen a Viper interior up close, right? I love the original Viper, but the interior makes a Metro's look high-quality. They're shocking! You wanna know where all your recycled Chinese takeaway boxes went in 1991? Look no further!

[urquattroGus]

New interior is a lot nicer in the flesh than the photos.

[anonymous-user]

urquattroGus said:

New interior is a lot nicer in the flesh than the photos.

Hopefully prospective buyers will bother to find (the only) one and check it out before dismissing it.

[DSLiverpool]

Is this still happening?

[Reciprocating mass]

I’m sure Covid-19 will have destroyed any remote chance of this happening not that it was looking that likely before hand, if you go by what has been talked about in the tvr section

[robsco]

DSLiverpool said:

Is this still happening?

TVR haven't admitted it yet, but it certainly would seem not.

[Jonny TVR]

Hope they have the funds to pay back the deposits

[livinginasia]

Jonny TVR said:

Hope they have the funds to pay back the deposits

Pleased I got mine back a few months ago !

[Jonny TVR]

livinginasia said:

Pleased I got mine back a few months ago !

Me too

[Digga]

Really sad, but I do think the odds are even more solidly stacked against a low volume manufacturer, even of the size TVR was let alone could re-start at in 2019/20.

[Jonny TVR]

The annoying thing is I bought the reg 0009 TVR for mine, no use at all now!

[Digga]

Jonny TVR said:

The annoying thing is I bought the reg 0009 TVR for mine, no use at all now!

Buy a nice Sagaris!

[anonymous-user]

DSLiverpool said:

Is this still happening?

I'd be very surprised. Very surprised before any of this stuff happened, frankly.

[Jonny TVR]

Digga said:

Buy a nice Sagaris!

Not many 2009 ones around

[leef44]

Reciprocating mass said:

I’m sure Covid-19 will have destroyed any remote chance of this happening not that it was looking that likely before hand, if you go by what has been talked about in the tvr section

They could use this as an excuse for not continuing. There are a lot of businesses which were right at the brink of collapsing and Covid is the straw that broke the back so they all claim this is the reason.

[anonymous-user]

Who has the rights/access to the old TVR IP? Would be awesome to see the most recent production TVRs back, perhaps with updated crate engines. I'll have a Tamora with a 500bhp V8 please.

[unsprung]

leef44 said:

Reciprocating mass said:

I’m sure Covid-19 will have destroyed any remote chance of this happening not that it was looking that likely before hand, if you go by what has been talked about in the tvr section

They could use this as an excuse for not continuing. There are a lot of businesses which were right at the brink of collapsing and Covid is the straw that broke the back so they all claim this is the reason.

Coincidentally, the folks at new TVR claim that COVID-19 has no impact on their business.

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TVR company accounts posted 30 March 2020:

. . . "The COVID-19 pandemic presents no immediate or foreseen risk to TVR operationally or as a going concern, given the operations are still in the pre-production stage."

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For details, see the last page or two of the following, more recent, TVR thread:
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[Niffty951]

Jonny TVR said:

Digga said:

Buy a nice Sagaris!

Not many 2009 ones around

Hopefully they'll sell the name off for £1 like Rover. We can group buy a few 2009-2012 Caymans, re-body it with something exotic and TVR like made in a shed out of fiberglass, shoehorn in an AMG or Audi twin turbo 4.0 V8 with remap and there you have it.

Amazing handling, reliable, TVR kit car that's mid engined V8. 400hp per tonne for £50k in stores by 2021