TVR No longer under British ownership...

[catfood]

TVR, one of the UKs last British owned car manufacturers has been sold to a 24 year old Russian banking millionaire. While this may be good for TVR (the new owner seems to want to bring TVR to a wider, global market) I can't help thinking that this last bastion of British car manufacturing eccentricity may loose some of its appeal if it is forced down a more conventional track in order to establish a 'Global Brand'.

TVR have always ploughed their own furrow so I hope the new owner will allow them to continue with Peter Wheelers vision of brute force and simplicity.

BBC News Announcement

 

[78Z]

So what is left? Just Morgan and a few kit car makers? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[Xracer]

Yeah....I think Morgan is the only manufacturer left. Thank god it's a family owned business and they have no intention of selling.

 

[catfood]

...and the London Taxi Company who are, strangely enough, based just down the road from me in Coventry! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/england.gif

 

[Don Lattimer]

Aren't you forgetting Marcos? Just came out with the new TSO Marcos Engineering

 

[hottvr]

Thanks for the thread Catfood. Does the sale increase chances of TVR in America?
Rick Hansen

 

[Steve]

Thanks Steve, good to know......mind you, Chelsea FC are now Russian-owned too. Good for Morgan, I sincerely hope that they can carry on as they are.

 

[Tiger]

Bristol?

 

[Mark Beiser]

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Good for Morgan, I sincerely hope that they can carry on as they are.

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Havn't they been building the same car for the last 80ish years? Why stop now? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Steve_S]

Here's more information on the subject from a Russian source:

https://english.pravda.ru/main/18/88/354/13578_tvr.html