TVR’s tortuous ownership saga continues. It emerged today, at a low-key press conference held at a hotel on London’s Mayfair, that current company owner Nikolai Smolenski is planning to sell the sports car firm to two Florida-based business partners, Adam Burdette and Jean Michel Santacreu.
The Americans’ first contact with TVR, made 18 months ago, was as potential importers of the cars to the USA. The pair, who live in Orlando, will rapidly take over control of TVR from the Russian-born “baby oligarch”, as the new faces of the management.
i dont see how the front bumpers on the current TVR’s are much different than say an elise or a C6, it probably has more to do with emissions and Crash test demo cars that a LOw production hand built car company can provide. Isnt that one of the reasons the Porsche CGT importation was stopped? Its pricey and downright depressing to hand over perfectly fine automotice works of art to goverment pencil pushers to ram into walls, to simulate normal driving conditions. to make everyone safer. Yes there is a market for exotics in the USA. but for a company to give away 1% of the cars it makes in a year to crash testers probably hurts a lot of feelings.
i dont see how the front bumpers on the current TVR’s are much different than say an elise or a C6
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headlights come down WAY to far and arent set back enough to survive a 5mph impact … according to law only the bumper can be damaged during such tests
i think if they got realy creative, they could find ways to mount the headlights so that during and impact they flex out of the way to survive, but i donno
same goes for the rear bumpers, most TVR rears dont seam to be well set up for rear impact testing
i just wish the government would allow exotics to ignore 5mph bumper laws, if you have enough for a TVR, you have enough for some new TVR headlights, lol
time to sex up this thread with the current TVR offerings
Ok you got me there.