RE: TVR finally hurdles factory delay
Discussion
IforB said:
Having been through the nightmare of putting a new manufacturing facility into an existing building in the past, then I suspect this will take a while to sort. I'm going to guess at 18 months until they have the production line commissioned and that's if they don't find too many nasties when they get going, which there will inevitably be.
I am a huge supporter of this project. I nearly put a deposit down, but I just couldn't get past the nagging feeling that it might not happen. I hope I am very wrong on that though and that I was a chump not to go for it.
Only time will tell, but I always suspect trouble when a project stretches the timeline like this. No matter what the justification, once the momentum starts to wane, it is very hard to get it back.
Fingers crossed.
It is slightly depressing that they could have built a new factory in this time.I am a huge supporter of this project. I nearly put a deposit down, but I just couldn't get past the nagging feeling that it might not happen. I hope I am very wrong on that though and that I was a chump not to go for it.
Only time will tell, but I always suspect trouble when a project stretches the timeline like this. No matter what the justification, once the momentum starts to wane, it is very hard to get it back.
Fingers crossed.
There is also some strange stuff on the financing. The news piece here https://businessnewswales.com/world-leading-centre... said that the *landlord* (a charitable trust) had agreed to finance £4.5m to refurb the building. The WAG doesn't own it, but instead is leasing it and then sub-letting to TVR.
It seems odd to me that the WAG didn't sign an agreement for lease subject to landlord's works (which would have taken this all out of the EU tendering process), and equally odd that TVR didn't specify this.
One does wonder if TVR actually employed proper property people to handle their interest in this deal.
k, dunno why everyone is moaning At this particular moment in the "rebirth" story, it would be useful -- commercially beneficial -- for a prominent member of the TVR launch team to do an Ask Me Anything interview on PH or on another prominent UK media title.
It's not necessary to have detailed answers to all questions. What is necessary is to demonstrate resolve.
The current silence, and the subsequent rudderless and passive writing of this story, is, in the opinions of many, I would imagine, reckless.
rockin said:
Quite right. I understand Boris Johnson has just placed an order and delivery has been promised by 31 October.
Your words did actually cause me to laugh aloud.
A thrill a minute in Westminster at the moment. And, despite all the drama, more profound than what we have over here.
On the other hand: Brexit being on Halloween doesn't get enough coverage / satire.
And I hope that we hear more soon from the team at TVR. An "ask me anything" would be good for them to do.
Will the presumably off-the-shelf Coyote motor with Cosworth drawn on still be emissions compliant by the time this car is actually available for purchase...? 
I know it's all part of the fun for die-hard TVR fans, but my god this whole thing seems a laughably amateurish endeavour, even if you only go back to the pathetically executed release shots, the handicam video of some blokes from the pub watching a kit car bimble loudly along a closed bit of track, the entire 'factory' debacle, the total public silence on what's going on, it's a bit... poor.
Les Edgar should have possibly kept this whole scheme as the pub chat where it no doubt started, and quite possibly belonged. I can't help but feel that away from the cosseting reassurance of a few pints he's somewhat come a cropper.
Fingers crossed I'm totally wrong though
I know it's all part of the fun for die-hard TVR fans, but my god this whole thing seems a laughably amateurish endeavour, even if you only go back to the pathetically executed release shots, the handicam video of some blokes from the pub watching a kit car bimble loudly along a closed bit of track, the entire 'factory' debacle, the total public silence on what's going on, it's a bit... poor.
Les Edgar should have possibly kept this whole scheme as the pub chat where it no doubt started, and quite possibly belonged. I can't help but feel that away from the cosseting reassurance of a few pints he's somewhat come a cropper.
Fingers crossed I'm totally wrong though
Equus said:
SturdyHSV said:
Will the presumably off-the-shelf Coyote motor with Cosworth drawn on still be emissions compliant by the time this car is actually available for purchase...?
Surely the more relevant question is whether petrol will be available by then?
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