New TVR spotted

[RedRose123]

Friend of mine sent me this photo of a TVR on the back of a truck. Has a 71 registration number.

[8Speed]

RedRose123 said:

Friend of mine sent me this photo of a TVR on the back of a truck. Has a 71 registration number.

I like that redesign of the new Griffith much more

[sixor8]

It has valid VED too. DVLA have it recorded as having been manufactured in 2022. Eh?

I suppose it was a previously unregistered car, held in storage somewhere. But the year of manufacture would be obviously wrong. Do cars manufactured many years ago (you often see them at auctions) get a current plate if registered now? It has no emission data so will keep the VED low - ish.

[RedRose123]

Looks like a Sagaris but doesn't have side exhausts. Though it might be a replica but is registered as a TVR.

[Shnozz]

RedRose123 said:

Looks like a Sagaris but doesn't have side exhausts. Though it might be a replica but is registered as a TVR.

That is the bit that makes it even more intriguing.

[Granturadriver]

First I thought it might be this Sagaris https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&... but that was a different car and is back on the road since 2020.

Maybe it is the first Teneriffa Sagaris?
https://www.grexautomotive.com Don't think so as I can't believe they really have any real car and their pics show always the ealier pipes.

Or is it just a plate change?

[Simon_GH]

sixor8 said:

It has valid VED too. DVLA have it recorded as having been manufactured in 2022. Eh?

I suppose it was a previously unregistered car, held in storage somewhere. But the year of manufacture would be obviously wrong. Do cars manufactured many years ago (you often see them at auctions) get a current plate if registered now? It has no emission data so will keep the VED low - ish.

I think a 71 plate covers Sept 2021 to March 2022?

[pcrawf]

I arrived in this thread wondering if it was someone else spotting the new Griffith on the M25 in Surrey yesterday, but this is even odder than that!

[bigandclever]

Is that the one Racing Green were building a couple of years ago?

ETA maybe not, that was 4 years ago ..

https://www.instagram.com/p/BeVMo1FFebm/?hl=en

[bubblebobble]

I would expect this car to be an existing unused body and chassis that has been built up with all new parts and put through a current IVA inspection.
Obviously you have to prove it is built from all new parts or all but one old part via receipts/ paperwork etc
The old part has to be reconditioned as new or better.
You will then be given the paperwork to apply for a new current registration plate once passing the IVA inspection.
Nothing unusual the kit car boys do it all the time.

[glow worm]

I suspect it one of the unfinished car off the production line , taken into storage at Multipart and subsequently sold... there were a few Sags and Tuscan Verts which are being put on the road slowly.

[porterpainter]

RedRose123 said:

Looks like a Sagaris but doesn't have side exhausts. Though it might be a replica but is registered as a TVR.

Sagaris Mk2 had rear exhausts

[TwinKam]

Granturadriver said:

First I thought it might be this Sagaris https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&... but that was a different car and is back on the road since 2020.

Maybe it is the first Teneriffa Sagaris?
https://www.grexautomotive.com Don't think so as I can't believe they really have any real car and their pics show always the ealier pipes.

Or is it just a plate change?

You can't have/ change to a number 'newer' than the car, only older.

[Granturadriver]

TwinKam said:

You can't have/ change to a number 'newer' than the car, only older.

Ah, didn‘t know that!

[sixor8]

If you could, thousands would buy plates for their older cars to put 22 plates on if they had the chance.

Simon_GH said:

I think a 71 plate covers Sept 2021 to March 2022?

I'm fully aware of that. But cars that have been in storage, kit cars or imported cars may well have a date several years ago for manufacture and more recent for 'first registration' here in the UK:

https://vehicleenquiry.service.gov.uk/?_ga=2.10466...

There was a time back in the 80s when DVLA regularly made the error of issuing current year plates for cars that had been manufactured years before, but I doubt this a clerical error. It must be a 'new' car.

[Byker28i]

pcrawf said:

I arrived in this thread wondering if it was someone else spotting the new Griffith on the M25 in Surrey yesterday, but this is even odder than that!

There was a TVR event in London loosely based around the E-Prix, that the new Griff was at

[Stever]

porterpainter said:

Sagaris Mk2 had rear exhausts

Very similar styling