EVO - V positive Tuscan buying guide

EVO - V positive Tuscan buying guide

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bjwoods

Original Poster:

5,015 posts

285 months

Friday 6th December 2002
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Evo just came through the door today.

There is a very positive Tuscan buying guide (6 pages.
It confronts any percieved reliability issues, and puts this in contextagainst relative performance/reliabilty vs much more expensive, but similar performing exotica (see previous month supercar for 50k article)

Prices might start firming now.

B

MEMSDesign

1,100 posts

271 months

Friday 6th December 2002
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Sounds good. I've tended not to bother buying EVO anymore, since they started to spout pretentious bollocks about evoness, and since they started making pretty much all their published material available online for free at www.evo.co.uk

You don't even need to bother registering. Just type in a random username, and off you go! Only problem is, it tends to be behind the times a bit, and I can't find any of the buying guides. May have to make an exception to my rule if I want to read this.

blackmonday

554 posts

279 months

Friday 6th December 2002
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Not long ago Evo we're asking Tuscan owners about ownership experience - good and bad. I wonder if this article is a result...

griff2be

5,089 posts

268 months

Friday 6th December 2002
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EVO did ask on here - but they wanted a response within 24 hours. It may have been that this request was an after thought and one would hope that they did rather more in-depth research via another method....

bjwoods

Original Poster:

5,015 posts

285 months

Friday 6th December 2002
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They must have done a fair amount of research. It covers most issues when buying a used tuscan, including explaining about red-rose, S, 4.0, 3.6 engines overlap. The prices section is about right, checkpoints section is fair, and half a dozen very postive owners feedback section. Whilst not ignoring the rebuild issue.

It's as least as good as the Griffith article they did a while back.

The 'evoness' nonsense I just tend to ignore, but this and other articles do seem to be very much in the spirit of pistonheads.

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PetrolTed

34,428 posts

304 months

Friday 6th December 2002
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Don't suppose it mentioned PistonHeads as an information resource did it? They did offer to do that.

judas

5,992 posts

260 months

Friday 6th December 2002
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Doesn't look like - the miserable gits

Still, good article though.

plotloss

67,280 posts

271 months

Friday 6th December 2002
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judas said: Doesn't look like - the miserable gits

Still, good article though.


That seems a bit mick when they were on here not that long ago asking for owners feedback for this very article.

Matt.

raceboy

13,120 posts

281 months

Friday 6th December 2002
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Couldn't see any referance to PH, but joolz gets a mention in under specialists

griff2be

5,089 posts

268 months

Friday 6th December 2002
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plotloss said:

judas said: Doesn't look like - the miserable gits

Still, good article though.


That seems a bit mick when they were on here not that long ago asking for owners feedback for this very article.

Matt.


I suppose it depends if they actually got any feedback from here.

luca Brazzi

3,975 posts

266 months

Friday 6th December 2002
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Spooky!!! Just seen the article, and had to do a double take. My reg plate is only a couple of numbers different. Thought they chose a p!ss poor colour though. Looks matt in the photos. Should have chosen mine, which if course is luvvvverly.

Off to read the article now.

LB

PetrolTed

34,428 posts

304 months

Friday 6th December 2002
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griff2be said: I suppose it depends if they actually got any feedback from here.


Not the end of the world, just would have been nice. I corresponded with blokey from Evo after he posted the request who tried the Gassing Station because he knew it was the place to find some friendly Tuscan owners.

andyvdg

1,536 posts

284 months

Saturday 7th December 2002
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I did mention to EVO blokey that Pistonheads is one of the best places to find info on TVRs. I think it may be a compliment Ted that they may worried about the competition and don't want to advertise you!

Cheers,

Andy.

granville

18,764 posts

262 months

Saturday 7th December 2002
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luca Brazzi said: Spooky!!! Just seen the article, and had to do a double take. My reg plate is only a couple of numbers different. Thought they chose a p!ss poor colour though. Looks matt in the photos. Should have chosen mine, which if course is luvvvverly.

Off to read the article now.

LB


Yes, Luca, your car is gorgeous.

May I say, that you also have the most unfeasibly neat garage in the galaxy? HOW do you keep it so tidy?

Tips please!



>> Edited by derestrictor on Saturday 7th December 11:23

blackmonday

554 posts

279 months

Sunday 8th December 2002
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griff2be said: I suppose it depends if they actually got any feedback from here.



They've printed my feedback, albeit with a few word changes. I'll let you guess which quote is mine...

>> Edited by blackmonday on Sunday 8th December 21:24

fish

3,976 posts

283 months

Monday 9th December 2002
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Spent quite some time with the reporter, hope it proved usefull. The article does read quite well.

salty-nlv

438 posts

260 months

Monday 9th December 2002
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Am I being stupid!!!
i can't seem to locate the articles /guides as mentioned, wherabouts is it on the site?
I am a registered user on their site believe it or not..

MEMSDesign

1,100 posts

271 months

Monday 9th December 2002
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salty-nlv said: Am I being stupid!!!
i can't seem to locate the articles /guides as mentioned, wherabouts is it on the site?
I am a registered user on their site believe it or not..
It's not on their website as far as I can tell. You'll have to buy the mag I'm afraid.

salty-nlv

438 posts

260 months

Monday 9th December 2002
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Damn, I was trying to be a cheap skate..

Thanks anyway..

tim@beatmark.com

57 posts

277 months

Monday 16th December 2002
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P!ss poor colour??? Dammit that's my car...!!!!
It's Reflex Purple.