New TVR still under wraps!

[butch890]

limpsfield said:

https://twitter.com/NickServini/status/95325035412...

@WelshGovernment confirms it has bought 3% stake in sports car maker TVR for £500,000, as well as £2m loan ahead of production in Ebbw Vale.

That Values the company at £16.666M -Really!!!!!!

[anonymous-user]

Moycie said:

Cool stuff ,

I found a price list and an old green TVR soft briefcase that my invoices were in recently. It came with a TVR key chain and a postcard.

Hopefully they’re giving similar high end goodies with this new car.

[Moycie]

El stovey said:

I found a price list and an old green TVR soft briefcase that my invoices were in recently. It came with a TVR key chain and a postcard.

Hopefully they’re giving similar high end goodies with this new car.

well, we've already had a pen and '500' lapel pin.....just need the postcard now

[V8 GMS]

butch890 said:

That Values the company at £16.666M -Really!!!!!!

Nice: so each 5k depositeer has contributed 0.03% of the value of the business (or 0.015% for those with 2.5K deposits) - I prefered it when the depositeers thought they were bank-rolling the whole operation.

This seems a really positive milestone to me - Well done TVR!

[PuffsBack]

£16.6m

Nik got a bargain then, £15m and that included a production line with cars coming out the end!

[spagbogdog]

1% for approx £160K...seems like that would be a pretty good punt if Les needed some more cash (which I’m sure he doesn’t right now..).. I can see the value going northwards very quickly. Be interesting to see if they consider floating..

[essexstu]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-427068...

[swisstoni]

Next model is going to have to be called the Dragon isn’t it?

[RichB]

Moycie said:

My Griff 500 @ £36,680 (2000 base) --> £58,456 approx today

That was the base model then. My Griff, as pictured, was £39,950 with the usual extras like metallic paint, full leather, gold badges, uprated stereo etc.

[Moycie]

RichB said:

Moycie said:

My Griff 500 @ £36,680 (2000 base) --> £58,456 approx today

That was the base model then. My Griff, as pictured, was £39,950 with the usual extras like metallic paint, full leather, gold badges, uprated stereo etc.

I only have a copy of the build sheet on my Griff. With the extras: pearlescent paint, PAS, TVR logo in headrest, stereo upgrade with cd changer, probably £2k or so on top for mine I guess. Interesting to look back!

[dvs_dave]

Speed 3 said:

dvs_dave said:

It’s nothing like an upside down Aston grille, so a miserable fail if that was the intention.

I wouldn't say it's nothing like , it always did remind of the Aston's, even before I read the quote about Wheeler.



Not a miserable fail to me.

So how does it evolve into this, which is what we’re talking about? Not sure anyone can seriously think there is an actual link here, even if you buy into the design guff and flim flam shared.

[dvs_dave]

FarmyardPants said:

DonkeyApple said:

I don’t really get why they’ve given it that inane baby smile, unless they’ve a sponsorship deal with Disney.

It looks moronic on all cars and it never works unless the target consumer is female.

It also makes a car look cheap.

Unfortunately the front grill of this car makes you want to check it’s carer is near by.

Lord knows why grown up, intelligent men decided to make the front of a great car resemble a gurning simpleton.

+1

Although I think Les and the team have done amazingly well to get to where they are, I do think they have dropped a bk with the front end.
If models of this car were dangled from a baby's mobile, said baby would giggle, blow spit bubbles and reach for it. It should look mean and aggressive FFS.

Even turning the mouth upside-down using ms paint, to give a fish angry about his lip implants is an improvement.



Come on you 'shoppers, we've had lots of colour changes, now let's have some good front end suggestions!

A quick blast on markup on my phone and a minor alteration to the shape of the grille transforms the look. Goodbye Lightening McQueen, hello Emperor Zurg.

Edited by dvs_dave on Wednesday 17th January 01:34

[ianwayne]

The front end as it has been presented may be like that for a reason. Perhaps not full wind tunnel tests but computer modelling at least.

It appears that cooling airflow is gathered and funneled through vents below the headlamps. It will likely need a lot of cooling air on the move if the side exit exhausts are maintained!

Edited for typos

Edited by ianwayne on Wednesday 17th January 10:04

[Testarossa]

Yes my photoshop skills are crap, I just want the lights to be smaller...

[CanoeSniffer]

dvs_dave said:

I don't have a major issue with the styling of the new car, but this simple change for me looks superb

[bullittmcqueen]

CanoeSniffer said:

dvs_dave said:

I don't have a major issue with the styling of the new car, but this simple change for me looks superb

I agree it looks better this way. Thing is: the front is not a 2D-plane on which you can paint something. If you look at front from the side ( and i think the front looks superb from the side ) you see that the front is far from being "flat" but stretches back and so does the air intake. I think one might be able to change it in a way that it looks like this from the front-view, but it will not look ok from the sides then. The current shape of the intake follows the form of the air-inflows to the wheel. They would have to redesign pretty much of that if they wanted to turn the shape of the air-intake upside down.

[spagbogdog]

Look at the fronts of Portofino, GTC and the 812...then remove the horizontal carbon slats & prancing-horse..and you end up with the same basic shape.

I say ‘panic-not’ chaps...remove the badge from the bonnet and reposition into the ‘mouth’..add horizontal carbon slats plus the number plate and will look completely different and very purposeful.

I’m no good with photo-shop etc but perhaps one of you ‘techies’ can have a bash ..?

[TwinKam]

swisstoni said:

Next model is going to have to be called the Dragon isn’t it?

Hmmmm... the Nationalists would probably insist on having something like this...

Draig
Dragon

which loses some impact

[jmorgan]

TwinKam said:

swisstoni said:

Next model is going to have to be called the Dragon isn’t it?

Hmmmm... the Nationalists would probably insist on having something like this...

Draig
Dragon

which loses some impact

Nah, they would pick on a town name or past hero, probably the one that would need a name plate wider than the car.

Anyway, "Tard" seems to be a good name.

[julian64]

Time for a poll