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Meet the Typhoon – the £120,000 carbonfibre-bodied car that will lead TVR’s revival.
Reports of TVR’s death have been greatly exaggerated, and these are the first pictures of its new carbonfibre-bodied supercar, the Typhoon.
Powered by a supercharged version of TVR's 4-litre straight-six, further developed by Ricardo to produce 600bhp and 500lb ft, the Typhoon will be the fastest production TVR ever, and at around £120,000 the most expensive too.
Built to celebrate the firm’s 60th anniversary, the car will be officially...
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There's not been much in the way of festive cheer for workers at independent British sportscar maker TVR. In October they were told the historic factory in the seaside resort town ofBlackpool on the north-west coast was to close and be sold. A month later they learned the new assembly base wouldn't be local but in mainland Europe, so they wouldn't have jobs any more. In early December the spares division TVR Power was sold off. Now, the manufacturing arm - officially called Blackpool Automotive - has been put into receivership.
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The streets of London were brought to a standstill as hundreds of TVR cars descended on Whitehall in a last ditch attempt to save the doomed Blackpool company.
A staggering 479 of the sports cars - more than twice the number expected - joined a huge rally aimed at highlighting the demise of a British icon.
At one stage they parked three abreast in the heart of the capital as six workers from the Bispham factory handed over a petition to 10 Downing Street.
Tony Hodson, who was among 80 workers who took part in yesterday's parade...
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TVR is to launch a supercar at the Geneva motor show next spring.
It'll be called the Typhoon, and will feature TVR's all-aluminium Speed Six engine, supercharged to produced 600bhp. The carbon-fibre body ensures that it'll be expensive, TVR spokesman Jason Oxley saying that, although a retail price has yet to be fixed, around £120,000 "is about right".
Hemmings reports about the announcement: Members of the 7,000-strong TVR club are planning to rally at the factory on Friday, November 3, in a last-ditch effort to save the iconic, iconoclastic sports car manufacturer.
Despite a recent announcement that all production at the factory will cease in the immediate future, die-hard fans of the British marque refuse to give up hope, and TVR management, interested labor unions and the Blackpool Council are still attempting to keep the company in Blackpool, its home base since 1949.
Luxury sports car company TVR has abandoned its plans to move to a new production facility in Lancashire. TVR said the temporary site did not meet its health and safety standards.
Established in 1947, TVR is Britain's largest independent sports car owner and was bought by Russian tycoon Nikolai Smolensky in 2004.
UPDATE:
Sports car outfit TVR has announced it will cease production in the UK, meaning redundancy for the 260 workers at its Blackpool plant, the BBC reports.
The Transport and General Workers Union's reaction to the news...
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Yet more signs of life from the Sino-British supercar maker, TVR. According to an unnamed Swiss newspaper, Nikolai Smolenski is planning a limited (60 copies) production run of the Typhoon, a supercharged version of the T440R (Sagaris) as the first new model out of Blackpool since the factory’s relocation this summer.
TVR also announced that any forthcoming cars will conform to current EU (Euro IV) emissions standards, which they explicitly said will allow US sales “in a couple of years.” Before production halted, they produced at...
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