TVR production delayed - again
Looks like the first Griffiths now won't arrive until 2020 - details here...
Update - 01/02/19:
It seems production of TVR's new Griffith has been set back further still, with Dutch website AutoRAI reporting that the first cars will now not be completed until 2020. Once underway, manufacturing of the 500 initial Launch Edition cars - all of which have already been reserved - should take 12 to 14 months, meaning some customers may have to wait up to two years longer than expected to receive their orders.
Beyond that, the company plans to be able to produce up to 2,000 cars a year at its Ebbw Vale facility. But with the uncertainty surrounding Brexit compounding the already laborious task of resurrecting the once-beleaguered marque, the home straight may still not quite be in sight for TVR.
Original story, as reported 03/12/2018:
An oversight in the way that EU regulations are applied has been blamed for delays in the refurbishment of TVR's Ebbw Vale production facility. Deliveries of the first batch of 500 new Griffiths were supposed to begin in the new year, however the blunder seems to have led to significant delays, potentially pushing the car's arrival back to next summer or even beyond.
Wales receives more EU funding than virtually any other part of the United Kingdom, and with the Welsh government having purchased a three per cent stake in the sports car manufacturer - as well as provided it with a £2,000,000 loan - TVR has been left exposed to additional EU regulations surrounding state funding of private companies.
One such rule stipulates that the contract to renovate its dilapidated Ebbw Vale factory must be put out to tender across the entirety of the EU, a process which Autocar reckons won't be complete until January at the earliest. The technicality seems to have caught TVR by surprise and, should that timeframe prove correct, would make timely deliveries of its new 500hp supercar virtually impossible.
A possibility remains that some work could begin in another facility on the site - which requires less updating - as soon as March. Although Edgar also revealed that only 75 per cent of the parts for the Griffith have so far been sourced, meaning that even if the factory were ready today, TVR may still not be set to begin production just yet...
I look forward to their return, but it's possible the owners are starting to realise that it's a long old road from concept to production these days.
A new car by the brand that is the very foundation of PistonHeads is on the horizon with a big V8, manual gearbox, RWD, all the basic ingredients and its more moaning with a dash of added scepticism and a bit of what seems like thinly veiled vitriol, which seems a bit weird.
Am sure they will get it to market, it may take a bit longer but lets perhaps get behind them ?
ksBet Germany or France would just ignore the ruling, allow internal tendering and get it built.
Delayed factory, delayed parts sourcing, and delayed production = annoyed customers.
In todays fickle world of `must have the latest toy` some of those customers will demand their deposits back, and purchase something else..
It's got the makings of another doomed British built cottage industry car maker. If it does get off the ground, someone must remind them to keep the same car design for the next 30 years.
A new car by the brand that is the very foundation of PistonHeads is on the horizon with a big V8, manual gearbox, RWD, all the basic ingredients and its more moaning with a dash of added scepticism and a bit of what seems like thinly veiled vitriol, which seems a bit weird.
Am sure they will get it to market, it may take a bit longer but lets perhaps get behind them ?
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Strikes me as a bit of a weird one for the Welsh Government not to have got their heads around this. Fair enough that TVR might not be as familiar as it generally doesn't apply when a private company is making its own investments, only when government/public money is being invested in things.
From what I've heard of the Welsh Government though I shouldn't be surprised. Competence isn't a word naturally associated with them.
Its a Gym, an IceRink and a pile of rubble to park on, to name a few of the things currently there.
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But they should have gone back to the fylde . At least the god awful welsh govt wouldn’t have Ballsed it up
If Wales receives so much funding from the EU then it is entirely their fault.
Shame for TVR because thiswill invite the usual moaning about it never be oming a reality.
If there are still a lot of parts to be sourced then this is as likely to cause the delay anyway.
Well first time that he has built a car and with a new team, it is not going to be plain sailing.
Took Tesla 10 years to build their own car.
A new car by the brand that is the very foundation of PistonHeads is on the horizon with a big V8, manual gearbox, RWD, all the basic ingredients and its more moaning with a dash of added scepticism and a bit of what seems like thinly veiled vitriol, which seems a bit weird.
Am sure they will get it to market, it may take a bit longer but lets perhaps get behind them ?
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