In the latest edition of EVO there was a very tidy and accurate description of what TVR has been trough the past 12 months, with a short interview of a worker together with a roadtest of one of the two Typhons TVR made, a short interview with the owner of the first and biggest TVR dealer (TVR Centre), a brief history of TVR and some golden TVR-moments from the EVO-writers.
The weird thing was that new orders for cars kept comming in even though the production had halted, due shortage of parts. In the factory and outside there are several half-built cars standing around, along with fiberglass bodies. It's a real shame that TVR is in the shape it is right now, as their cars are better than ever, being not just on par with what all the others are offering, but a lot more special as well. Where else in the world do you get completely handbuilt, similarly performing cars at this price level, with such a bespoke feel and a propritary engine, not just something with various parts off Ford's or GM's shelves? The reliability issues concerning the Speed Six engine was pretty much sorted when the Sagaris and the Tuscan 2 came out, but it was too late, as building confidence in customers, and a good reputation takes a long time. The same goes for the AJP8, that was finally completely sorted around '98 when the underdeveloped Tuscan was launched.
I really hope that they manage to pull trough this, and shock the rest of the sportscar world up like they did back in 1990 with the Griffith 500... To do this they have to freeze the supercar plans and go back to basics, and hold it off untill they have the bank ballance to support it...