Picture of TVR Tuscan in California, USA

[TastyKebab]

I got a shock when browsing the "TVR" section of the website Exoticspotter.com when I saw TWO pictures of a TVR Tuscan cruising the streets of California. The guy who took the pic also notes the confusion in seeing this TVR considering theres no way of getting a modern TVR into the USA.

Any of you guys seen this pic before? How the hell did this guy get a TVR into the US?

Oh yeah, also, theres [B]also a video[/B] on google video of a TVR (could be the same one), driving in a california street The video is only 9 seconds long, but long enough to capture the TVR stopped at a set of lights. When I get the link i'll post it.

[TastyKebab]

Heres also the video link of the TVR Tuscan in Los Angeles

[url]http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?d[/url]

[url]http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?d[/img]

[rolex]

I wonder if its one of the cars that was used in that John Travolta film a few years back?

[beano500]

Swordfish - different colour; well, it may have been re-sprayed I suppose

IMHO there were three Tuscans involved. One is happily driving the streets of the UK; last time I saw a second one it was the one full of holes in the factory.... (I'll see if I still have a picture...)


Edited to add - well, it waan't this one:

Edited by beano500 on Saturday 20th January 23:09

[Boosted LS1]

Could it have chevy engine onboard or something emmissions compliant in the US?

Boosted.

[anonymous-user]

As its on Uk plates I'd say it may just be some Brits having a driving holiday in the US?

[wild]

Yah.. if you have a foreign passport, I think you import a car with you for up to a year before you have to ship it back out of the country. Thus the plates.

[ccharlie6]

look at the first picture the rear, the car has california plates on it, not english!

[alster]

first picture smells like photoshop, cause in the video you'll see the normal yellow brit plate...
=> holiday

Edited by alster on Sunday 21st January 04:46

[sidewayz]

Theres one in Cincinatti as well.God knows how it got there.

[plasticman]

There is a Cerb in San Francisco which I have done a quad light conversion on .It has an AJP and is on californian plates .

[jsr]

I though you could bring cars, such as TVR's, into the US for show use only, i.e very limited mileage

[Graham]

I must be one of the few people that have been driven in a speed 6 Tuscan around florida !!! by Ben Samulson no less few yeas ago now and that was on manu plates, i'll dig out a photo later

G

[TastyKebab]

alster said:

first picture smells like photoshop, cause in the video you'll see the normal yellow brit plate...
=> holiday

Edited by alster on Sunday 21st January 04:46

Nah I doubt its a photoshop. You can even see the reflection of the red car in the tuscan. Looks 100% genuine.

[mikef]

jsr said:

I thought you could bring cars, such as TVR's, into the US for show use only, i.e very limited mileage

You can run a vehicle on UK plates and without US type approval on a non-resident visa (H1, L1, etc) for a year, after which you have to re-export. Quite a few expats do this. This one does look to have a Cal rear plate though. Many California vehicles don't show a front plate, or have some sort of display plate, although technically you are supposed to have both front and reat

[Mr.Cerbera]

Just watched my "The making of ...." and the director, Dominic Sena, says that TVR sent 4 cars ! So I guess that was what was on the tax bill rather than the number of vehicles that were paid for ??

[holsaway]

Mr.Cerbera said:

Just watched my "The making of ...." and the director, Dominic Sena, says that TVR sent 4 cars ! So I guess that was what was on the tax bill rather than the number of vehicles that were paid for ??

Trust me four cars went!

[Lensey]

holsaway said:

Mr.Cerbera said:

Just watched my "The making of ...." and the director, Dominic Sena, says that TVR sent 4 cars ! So I guess that was what was on the tax bill rather than the number of vehicles that were paid for ??

Trust me four cars went!

Did four come back?

[alster]

TastyKebab said:

alster said:

first picture smells like photoshop, cause in the video you'll see the normal yellow brit plate...
=> holiday

Edited by alster on Sunday 21st January 04:46

Nah I doubt its a photoshop. You can even see the reflection of the red car in the tuscan. Looks 100% genuine.

said 1st pic (rear view), not 2nd one and photoshopping just the part with the plate wouldn't be that hard...
anyway, doesn't change the fact that on the video, it has UK plates (rear and front), as well as on the 2nd pic (front view)

Edited by alster on Monday 22 January 13:14

[Hotwheels.]

You're there arguing the toss about photoshopping or not, but who says its even the same car?