New TVR still under wraps! (Vol. 2)

New TVR still under wraps! (Vol. 2)

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Gazzab

21,093 posts

282 months

Friday 24th January 2020
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They bought the wrong shed I’m afraid.

Phil Dicky

7,162 posts

263 months

Friday 24th January 2020
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BJWoods said:
TVR - March 2018-

You may recall that the Welsh Government recently announced they had acquired the building for TVR's new factory facility in Ebbw Vale just before Christmas.

As time was ticking on, we decided to acquire some additional space in order to let us get started in advance of the refurb being complete on the main building. I am happy to say that this has now been achieved - close to the the main facility. We have already begun the move from our Guildford development site to the new unit and to configure the building for pre-production builds, pilot builds etc.




which is why people here were talking about a smaller facility, pre-production, etc,etc before the main factory.
does/did this new unit ever exist?
It appears not.

anonymous-user

54 months

Friday 24th January 2020
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BJWoods said:
TVR - March 2018-

You may recall that the Welsh Government recently announced they had acquired the building for TVR's new factory facility in Ebbw Vale just before Christmas.

As time was ticking on, we decided to acquire some additional space in order to let us get started in advance of the refurb being complete on the main building. I am happy to say that this has now been achieved - close to the the main facility. We have already begun the move from our Guildford development site to the new unit and to configure the building for pre-production builds, pilot builds etc.




which is why people here were talking about a smaller facility, pre-production, etc,etc before the main factory.
does/did this new unit ever exist?
That’s the post I was looking for.

I think people were asking what happened to this on the PHs news thread also.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...






N7GTX

7,866 posts

143 months

Friday 24th January 2020
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The Welsh government loan was taken out in March 2016 on a 5 year term. So repayable in March 2021.
The loan was for £3m and with interest that had grown to almost £3.5m in the last accounts in 2018. I'm not an accountant but the final sum must surely be around £4m?
The factory even if started today will take 8 months to repair. They will need to build and shift a lot of cars to pay overheads, salaries, suppliers and the loan in a little over 14 months. frown

Don1

15,949 posts

208 months

Friday 24th January 2020
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GTRene said:
time flies, so no V8 sadly, so the new EV 4 seater TVR Griffith spotted...they start with 25 cars.









oke its not a TVR solly, but when I opened that post and saw the colour used, and a bit of the lines, the first car came to mind was TVR.
if you scroll down it takes on a Tesla Model S SP100D in a drag race.

https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/elektroauto/dr...
Better looking than the limping griff.

Gazzab

21,093 posts

282 months

Friday 24th January 2020
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Don1 said:
Better looking than the limping griff.
I can’t agree. Whilst I am not wild about the Griff, this thing looks a bit rubbish. Like an RX8 mixed with a generic modern coupe. Those rear arches are terrible.

N7GTX

7,866 posts

143 months

Saturday 25th January 2020
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Checked the TVR Spotted thread. Just in case .......
smile

Granturadriver

578 posts

261 months

anonymous-user

54 months

Saturday 25th January 2020
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Granturadriver said:
? Same video as before???

Gazzab

21,093 posts

282 months

Saturday 25th January 2020
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Granturadriver said:
Catch up at the back ;-)

Pupp

12,225 posts

272 months

Saturday 25th January 2020
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https://carbuzz.com/news/the-mustang-powered-tvr-g...

Nothing new but the comments are interesting...

cirks

2,472 posts

283 months

Sunday 26th January 2020
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Pupp said:
https://carbuzz.com/news/the-mustang-powered-tvr-g...

Nothing new but the comments are interesting...
Which comments? Just a rehash from here with the latest update from TVR of course beinq ‘acquired by Carbuzz’ by them reading the copy posted here too

Pupp

12,225 posts

272 months

Sunday 26th January 2020
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cirks said:
Which comments?
The readers' ones that follow the article, or at least do if you click the 'show comments' tab.



m4tti

5,427 posts

155 months

Sunday 26th January 2020
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Well spotted pupp. In fairness the comments link is so far from the main body of the article it takes forever to scroll to. The whole thing seems to have been crafted by a 12 year old in their bedroom.

Anyway here’s some choice comments




N7GTX

7,866 posts

143 months

Sunday 26th January 2020
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This just highlights why newco desperately need to get a grip and start promoting the car at every opportunity with positive updates using every social media platform. Once a company starts to get a bad reputation (even if just based on comments like these) it can take a long time to turn it around. They need to be far more proactive and positive.

Pupp

12,225 posts

272 months

Sunday 26th January 2020
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I haven't gone back to re-check but. from memory, those were the two negatives amidst what were otherwise a positive (if not so extreme) set of 9...

PH - balance matters

anonymous-user

54 months

Sunday 26th January 2020
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Pupp said:
I haven't gone back to re-check but. from memory, those were the two negatives amidst what were otherwise a positive (if not so extreme) set of 9...

PH - balance matters


A positive set of 9?

anonymous-user

54 months

Sunday 26th January 2020
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They’re a bit irrelevant as they’re just joe public rather than the discerning aficionado type on here.

Pupp

12,225 posts

272 months

Sunday 26th January 2020
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El stovey said:
A positive set of 9?
In your stampede to contradict (hope you didn't strain anything), you appear to have omitted to read the word 'otherwise' and the opening qualification I mentioned... still more balanced than being suggested. To the extent it matters.

baconsarney

11,992 posts

161 months

Sunday 26th January 2020
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V6 Pushfit said:
They’re a bit irrelevant as they’re just joe public rather than the discerning aficionado type on here.
hehe
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