RE: TVR reinstates laid-off workers
Friday 14th July 2006
TVR T350TTVR is experiencing increased demand for its cars, and is reinstating the workers it laid off earlier this year. The Blackpool-based company issued this statement:
TVR reinstates laid-off workers
More demand is good news for Bristol Avenue
TVR T350T
Since TVR announced its relocation plans last month, the company has experienced an upsurge in confidence in the TVR brand. The authorised TVR dealer network is also reporting an increase in both enquiries and sales.
In order to satisfy this growing demand and to cope with the company's ongoing expansion plans, TVR has announced that it will be reinstating the workers that it temporarily laid off earlier this year.
Throughout the lay-off period, TVR has been consulting the TGWU (Transport and General Workers' Union), which has welcomed the news and sees this as a highly satisfactory conclusion. Andy Robertson of the TGWU said he is now looking forward to the secure future of his members and confirms the union will work closely with the company to achieve a successful future.
Discussion
Sounds like they might have someone new in their PR department to me..
Finally realised that if they control it better the move to new location can be made to sounds postive, to date all mention in the press of the move has somehow managed to still come across as being one forced to due to problems. I do wonder if the upsurge in demand is real or whether it is positive PR that will become self fulfilling due to increasing the confidence in buyers, backed up by some rehiring of layed off workers (in whatever numbers that may be).
Whatever is behind it, it is good news and seems to the right way of doing things.
Finally realised that if they control it better the move to new location can be made to sounds postive, to date all mention in the press of the move has somehow managed to still come across as being one forced to due to problems. I do wonder if the upsurge in demand is real or whether it is positive PR that will become self fulfilling due to increasing the confidence in buyers, backed up by some rehiring of layed off workers (in whatever numbers that may be).
Whatever is behind it, it is good news and seems to the right way of doing things.
Edited by Touching Cloth on Friday 14th July 11:09
Edited by Touching Cloth on Friday 14th July 11:38
convert said:
Agree , this is great news. When are the mainstream press going to report it ?
Mainsteam press.... good news....... no.... you've lost me.
Unless it contains children, cats or a rare British sporting victory I won't be holding my breath for good news from them
Edited by Touching Cloth on Friday 14th July 13:00
angrys3owner said:
mightymouse said:
GregE240 said:
Thats great news.
Well put
, so who's going to be the first miserable b@stard to try and piss on this bit of good news?Sorry, suppose it's going to be me. Bought brand new Sag from factory in December. Now done 6k miles. Breaking down or semi serious problems on average about once every 600 miles. To be fair, factory really tries to sort problems out. But as far as I'm concerned until they really get to grips with build quality control I don't care where they go, I'd never buy another tvr. Had Tusc s before saggy, again brand new from factory, and experienced exactly same problems. Shame but same old story really..
name said:
Well put, so who's going to be the first miserable b@stard to try and piss on this bit of good news?
Erm, I'll have a go if you like
Actually I think TVR is doing really well, but it seems that for such a small manufacturer, they have too many variants.
I think now the situation is a lot better, and that young russian lad seems to have a reasonable clue about what he's doing.
Problem is tho, that despite recent efforts, the cars still have a reputation for being unreliable. Mud sticks as they say, and if TVR is to pull itself back to the glory days of the late nineties and move forward from that, then it needs to put as many resources as possible into reliability development, rather than letting the first 'lucky' customers do it for them.
It seems for too long that TVR has thrown its money at building a new car rather than holding onto its models a bit longer and actually making sure they work properly before sending them on their little way.
Rennsport said:
name said:
Well put, so who's going to be the first miserable b@stard to try and piss on this bit of good news?
Erm, I'll have a go if you like
Actually I think TVR is doing really well, but it seems that for such a small manufacturer, they have too many variants.
I think now the situation is a lot better, and that young russian lad seems to have a reasonable clue about what he's doing.
Problem is tho, that despite recent efforts, the cars still have a reputation for being unreliable. Mud sticks as they say, and if TVR is to pull itself back to the glory days of the late nineties and move forward from that, then it needs to put as many resources as possible into reliability development, rather than letting the first 'lucky' customers do it for them.
It seems for too long that TVR has thrown its money at building a new car rather than holding onto its models a bit longer and actually making sure they work properly before sending them on their little way.
I've often though TVR should adopt a more Porsche-like strategy of continued development and refinement of a model (ie 911), but when you actually think about it, the Speed 6 cars are 'essentially' the same but with different bodies.
Great news for TVR, as is all the news of late. It's much better to be kept informed what is going on, rather than listening (reading) all the doom and gloom made-up stories on here.
Now, if only i could find a spare £50k...
cjs said:
More good news is they are going to use Ricardo as consultants on their 'Drive Chain', this company is the world leader in the field and do work for most of the major manufacturers, if they can't get the SP6 right then no one will.
Is ‘drive train/chain’ an all encapsulating term for the engine, gearbox, clutch etc?
Sounds great anyway – I was beginning to think that I would not be able to buy a brand new TVR when mine reaches the end of its life – and better still, those workers that were laid off will be going back to work, along with a new sense of hope and pride, I would think.
Edited by chris watton on Friday 14th July 13:18
jsr said:
Rennsport said:
name said:
Well put, so who's going to be the first miserable b@stard to try and piss on this bit of good news?
Erm, I'll have a go if you like
Actually I think TVR is doing really well, but it seems that for such a small manufacturer, they have too many variants.
I think now the situation is a lot better, and that young russian lad seems to have a reasonable clue about what he's doing.
Problem is tho, that despite recent efforts, the cars still have a reputation for being unreliable. Mud sticks as they say, and if TVR is to pull itself back to the glory days of the late nineties and move forward from that, then it needs to put as many resources as possible into reliability development, rather than letting the first 'lucky' customers do it for them.
It seems for too long that TVR has thrown its money at building a new car rather than holding onto its models a bit longer and actually making sure they work properly before sending them on their little way.
I've often though TVR should adopt a more Porsche-like strategy of continued development and refinement of a model (ie 911), but when you actually think about it, the Speed 6 cars are 'essentially' the same but with different bodies.
Great news for TVR, as is all the news of late. It's much better to be kept informed what is going on, rather than listening (reading) all the doom and gloom made-up stories on here.
Now, if only i could find a spare £50k...
pakrat said:
angrys3owner said:
mightymouse said:
GregE240 said:
Thats great news. Well put
, so who's going to be the first miserable b@stard to try and piss on this bit of good news?Sorry, suppose it's going to be me. Bought brand new Sag from factory in December. Now done 6k miles. Breaking down or semi serious problems on average about once every 600 miles. To be fair, factory really tries to sort problems out. But as far as I'm concerned until they really get to grips with build quality control I don't care where they go, I'd never buy another tvr. Had Tusc s before saggy, again brand new from factory, and experienced exactly same problems. Shame but same old story really..
I've had the complete opposite experience.... I've done over 8000 mile in a new Tuscan 2 since the first of March with no problems other than a failed alternator at 150 miles. As the alternator is a third party part and it was working when I left the show room I can not blame that failure on TVR. The alternator was replaced the same day the problem was found. This is my second TVR and I can't wait until it's paid for so I can part ex it against another new one.
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