TVR Car Club France

Posted on the TVRCC UK Facebook page:

The rumours are true.....

TVR has been sold:

The TVRCC has spoken to both the former and new owners of TVR today (Thursday 6th June) and can confirm that Nikolai Smolensky has sold the entirety of the TVR brand and all associated rights and assets to a British company.

At the request of the new owners, we will not be joining other sources in speculation, but after speaking to the new owners we are excited about the future and are looking forward to hearing more about their plans.


Watch this space……

Yes! I saw the news yesterday afternoon on PistonHeads! Now, I hope...

It will be interesting when we find out more - owners? re-worked TVR engines or bought in LS or BMW engines? development of the last models or a brand new car(s)? With a lot of the ex-TVR workers having started their own businesses, will the new company out-source a lot of the work to those businesses and just assemble? So many questions.......

Dear TVR Fan,
By way of a brief update, I thought you would like to hear about some exciting news that is breaking in Autocar and Motorsport magazine.

Steve Cropley met us at Cosworth a little while ago to witness the firing up of the pre-production version of our new engine on the dyno. It was a pretty seminal moment – all of those months of hard work culminating in a single button push! Needless to say it was very exciting, particularly as the dyno cell in question is capable of simulating various circuits around the world as part of its automated routine…needless to say, we chose Le Mans!

Without wishing to steal any of Steve’s thunder, we were all very impressed with the performance, particularly the torque characteristics and peak power of the test engine. Even without the correct exhaust system fitted, it sounded awesome – fire & brimstone! The lap time was pretty impressive too!

Having achieved most of what we need for the road car, we continue to build on the strengths of the base engine, heading towards our various milestones of track, one make series and Le Mans cars, refining the road car version alongside developing the race versions. Currently, the Le Mans regulations for 2017 and beyond are still in the melting pot but we hope to have clarity on these in the coming months. This will assist not only the race car effort, but also could determine some of the work we do on the LE car - it’s better to allow for as much as possible (without compromising the road car) than to change it just for the race effort.

There will be a number of aspects of our current progress revealed and discussed in the article, not least of which will be the source of the base engine…and more! We could, of course, have sent out an official update but we feel that one from an independent source would be better – warts and all, as with all that we do.

Read more and view the dyno video by visiting the on-line version of Autocar via the link below. The printed version is also available as of today.

Very best wishes,

Les Edgar
Chairman
TVR
Link to Autocar

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the big big problem for the moment are spares for CLASSIC TVRS because they have stopped David Gerard suppllying parts. Sadly Steve Reid (gamekeeper ph )rip is no more and a very great loss.
I hope the new boss Edgar will sort out the Classic situation.
We only have Adrian Venn to support us today.

Alan

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