New TVR still under wraps! (Vol. 3)

New TVR still under wraps! (Vol. 3)

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QBee

21,442 posts

152 months

Tuesday 2nd July
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QBee said:
Gazzab said:
QBee said:
Gazzab said:
Ouch. What’s the extra £9m of debt falling due? Repayment of a loan?
No - the loan would have shown in the accounts.
The implication is expenditure.
You’d have thought the expenditure would have assets to show for it or could it therefore be payment to directors for all the hard work :-)
I said "the implication" because all you can see on the balance sheet is a liability that has appeared in the year that is refected by a loss for the year.
A loss implies trading expenditure or similar, given that it has incurred a current liabilty,

I will go have a look at the rest of the accounts and report back
The notes to the accounts say that another group company has loaned TVR EV about £9 million in the year.
The movement in reserves suggests that this has been spent on something revenue in nature, not capital, and that is most likely development work or consultancy fees, I would have thought.

Gazzab

21,240 posts

290 months

Tuesday 2nd July
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Oh so let’s speculate. Gordon Murray? Battery tech? EV drivetrain mock up? Redesign of existing car?

crosseyedlion

2,215 posts

206 months

Tuesday 2nd July
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Gazzab said:
Ouch. What’s the extra £9m of debt falling due? Repayment of a loan?
Most of it seems to be down to this:

Whatever that includes....

Edited by crosseyedlion on Tuesday 2nd July 14:12

crosseyedlion

2,215 posts

206 months

Tuesday 2nd July
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Gazzab said:
Oh so let’s speculate. Gordon Murray? Battery tech? EV drivetrain mock up? Redesign of existing car?
I would suggest its whatever would keep the wheels turning for longest. Probably something EV related - presumably that'll lead to some R&D tax credits.

If I was a betting man I wouldn't put money on the companies existing in their current form this time next year though.

Viper201

8,078 posts

151 months

Tuesday 2nd July
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In the notes of TVR Automotive, there is equity investment of £9.1m.

Para 10 - They say that the Audacia bond issue successfully raised 'initial funds'. That amounts to £1.47m. Repayment is due on the 30th April 2025 plus 8.25% interest.

They have also confirmed that they will NOT be building the cars in Wales. That is the end of that saga once and for all. So all those years of whining about the Welsh Govt means nothing at all.

Para 3.3 says: "The company has designed a new luxury sports car, the Griffith, for production and assembly at a potential production facility identified in South of England adjacent to a race circuit."

The wording in these accounts is the same they used in previous accounts concerning the Wales factory. All the talk of potential equity investors is again the same old spiel as we have heard so many times before.

They seem to be going in reverse.

Para 14 - Auditors Information: "We were unable to obtain sufficient appropriate audit evidence to support the directors' assessment that the carrying amount of the intangible assets is not impaired." The intangible assets are £9.6m comprising intellectual property and capitalized vehicle development costs. Oh dearie me.


Edited by Viper201 on Tuesday 2nd July 16:22

Penrhyn

728 posts

106 months

Tuesday 2nd July
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It also says


The three directors have given personal guarantees against the loans.

The Three D Mucketeer

6,182 posts

235 months

Tuesday 2nd July
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I bet he's doing a Smolenski ..... Next thing will be the company in liquidation with the Administrators and the biggest creditors will be guess who ???? getmecoat

Viper201

8,078 posts

151 months

Tuesday 2nd July
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Penrhyn said:
It also says


The three directors have given personal guarantees against the loans.
Yes, and so have all the previous accounts too. wink

astonman

799 posts

218 months

Wednesday 3rd July
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I thought it was time to give an update.
Unfortunately,the much heralded New factory premises ( green house) , has not materialised.
So,we are having to make do with sheds.
The problem now,is that although the inclement weather is continuing, the courgette plants have out grown the sheds,so will have to fend for themselves in the open air.
TVR, don't even have undersize sheds to manufacture product,never mind a factory/ green house!

catfishdb

242 posts

177 months

Thursday 4th July
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Now that is the kind of update I am looking forward to see.

Vegetables and all that!

You know, things that grow in the dirts.

BritishTvr450

437 posts

7 months

Thursday 4th July
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astonman said:
I thought it was time to give an update.
Unfortunately,the much heralded New factory premises ( green house) , has not materialised.
So,we are having to make do with sheds.
The problem now,is that although the inclement weather is continuing, the courgette plants have out grown the sheds,so will have to fend for themselves in the open air.
TVR, don't even have undersize sheds to manufacture product,never mind a factory/ green house!
rofl
This is true.
They built many thousands of cars in undersized sheds so that’s no excuse.
That’s amused me more than it should thumbup

rev-erend

21,538 posts

292 months

Thursday 4th July
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astonman said:
I thought it was time to give an update.
Unfortunately,the much heralded New factory premises ( green house) , has not materialised.
So,we are having to make do with sheds.
The problem now,is that although the inclement weather is continuing, the courgette plants have out grown the sheds,so will have to fend for themselves in the open air.
TVR, don't even have undersize sheds to manufacture product,never mind a factory/ green house!
At last this thread is back on track biggrin

phazed

22,018 posts

212 months

Thursday 4th July
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Mrs phazed bought three plants from a store somewhere.

We’ve ignored them completely and I just noticed that they have grown…

Normally plants die at the rate of 100% in her hands so growing chillies must be easy!


The Three D Mucketeer

6,182 posts

235 months

Thursday 4th July
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The secret is having the right tools for the job ........

Rompy

51 posts

101 months

Monday 15th July
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Stabs thread with pointy stick and steps back….

https://business.senedd.wales/documents/g14741/Pub...

I hope the link works - if not sorry, but anyone interested can work out it’s a link to welsh government accounts committee meeting 17th July including quite a bit about TVR.

Rompy

PAUL.S.

2,783 posts

254 months

Monday 15th July
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So they got their loan back which is good news, still saddled with some worthless shares though and also now stuck with yet another white elephant of a property that no one wants, we have a jungle full of such places in Wales! usually handed over to someone at a peppercorn rent in the end, Aston Martin in St Athan is a prime example or the LG factory in Newport.

The original owners of that clapped out factory did well out of this fiasco to shift it for such a vast sum, as it was also pretty worthless, as did the builders who refurbished it! I wonder who's palms were greased in those deals.


Edited by PAUL.S. on Monday 15th July 17:33

Viper201

8,078 posts

151 months

Monday 15th July
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£2m loan with 13% interest = £4.3m. Ouch. And they used the 'multi-million' Ensorcia investment money to repay that loan which is said to be more than the £5.5m TVR had to have before the Govt leased the factory. And the bond issue terminates on the 30th April next year so another large chunk to pay out.

It looks like there is some discord between Ensorcia (Daniel Layton) and TVR. TVR wants to produce the V8 but Ensorcia wants to produce an electric car.
If this is not resolved......

Wonder if TVR still sponsor the local football team?

Byker28i

68,434 posts

225 months

Wednesday 17th July
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The Three D Mucketeer said:
The secret is having the right tools for the job ........
Interesting way to trim a hedge biggrin

QBee

21,442 posts

152 months

Wednesday 17th July
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Byker28i said:
The Three D Mucketeer said:
The secret is having the right tools for the job ........
Interesting way to trim a hedge biggrin
We use a more conventional way to trim ours



Joys of living in the country. The famers know who to ask.
6.5 tonnes, so a bit heavy when the weather is as bad as it has been the last two winters.
My TVR is just out of shot, and definitely "under wraps", with it's Leven cover on