Breaking news about TVR, possibly just a rumour...
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That's a rather Scandanavian looking engine. Its the Volvo V8, supposedly based on the Jaguar Duratec and built by Yamaha. I guess those rumors that Nikoli was looking around Bridgend originally with the intent to pick up a Jag V8, but got distracted by the volvo unit were true. Odd choice of engine, as its only ever been used transverley.
bobthemonkey said:
That's a rather Scandanavian looking engine. Its the Volvo V8, supposedly based on the Jaguar Duratec and built by Yamaha. I guess those rumors that Nikoli was looking around Bridgend originally with the intent to pick up a Jag V8, but got distracted by the volvo unit were true. Odd choice of engine, as its only ever been used transverley.
aahhh remember now .it is a volly donkey we did have a jag motor to at some point .and a small block chevy
Sorry, really stupid rumour, though the source is convinced it's true. Seems someone wants to bring in the Sagaris into the US as a track car. Fair enough, but there is no production and there are only a handful of half-finished cars at the factory. And the kicker...the buyer apparently has no money. I doubt NS is going to finance this...so, I am putting it down as the deranged fantasies of someone fairly unfamiliar with something known as reality.
orgasmicliving!! said:
Sorry, really stupid rumour, though the source is convinced it's true. Seems someone wants to bring in the Sagaris into the US as a track car. Fair enough, but there is no production and there are only a handful of half-finished cars at the factory. And the kicker...the buyer apparently has no money. I doubt NS is going to finance this...so, I am putting it down as the deranged fantasies of someone fairly unfamiliar with something known as reality.
passes the time though !
You have to se this.......!
www.sniffpetrol.com/ [url]
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www.sniffpetrol.com/ [url]
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Edited by cobdoo on Monday 22 January 22:49
cobdoo said:
You have to se this.......!
www.sniffpetrol.com/ [url]
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www.sniffpetrol.com/ [url]
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Edited by cobdoo on Monday 22 January 22:49
Class...
orgasmicliving!! said:
Sorry, really stupid rumour, though the source is convinced it's true. Seems someone wants to bring in the Sagaris into the US as a track car. Fair enough, but there is no production and there are only a handful of half-finished cars at the factory. And the kicker...the buyer apparently has no money. I doubt NS is going to finance this...so, I am putting it down as the deranged fantasies of someone fairly unfamiliar with something known as reality.
Might sound silly but there is a market over there. I lived in New England from 2000-2004 and had all my motors looked after by KTR European Motorsports. They "assemble" Nobles to get by regulations out there and are doing very well by adopting this method: boday/chassis somes in without drivetrain and then they assemble the engine to create a car that gets by regulations. I had a Caterham R500 built out there using the same techniques to get by regulations - it works, albeit only on a rekatively small scale:
www.ktrperformance.com/performance/noble/noble_pricing.gif
Jappo said:
orgasmicliving!! said:
Sorry, really stupid rumour, though the source is convinced it's true. Seems someone wants to bring in the Sagaris into the US as a track car. Fair enough, but there is no production and there are only a handful of half-finished cars at the factory. And the kicker...the buyer apparently has no money. I doubt NS is going to finance this...so, I am putting it down as the deranged fantasies of someone fairly unfamiliar with something known as reality.
Might sound silly but there is a market over there. I lived in New England from 2000-2004 and had all my motors looked after by KTR European Motorsports. They "assemble" Nobles to get by regulations out there and are doing very well by adopting this method: boday/chassis somes in without drivetrain and then they assemble the engine to create a car that gets by regulations. I had a Caterham R500 built out there using the same techniques to get by regulations - it works, albeit only on a rekatively small scale:
www.ktrperformance.com/performance/noble/noble_pricing.gif
Oh, I should have said, here's the guy that gets round the regs with Caterhams in the USA:
www.sevenselans.com/sevens_home.htm
Might have been a grain of truth to that rumour. I didn't want to name names, but I had heard the rumour mentioned earlier in connection with this name, Adam Burdette. Check this out...
http://news.windingroad.com/earningsf
TVR Changes Hands Yet Again, This Time To Florida Entrepreneurs
This is all getting a bit absurd. If you’re just catching up with us, embattled British supercar manufacturer TVR appears to be getting passed around like the clap.
In our last episode, the Blackpool-based concern was purchased out of receivership by Russian plutocrat Nikolai Smolenski—the very man who owned the company before it fell into administration at the hands of PFK Partners. It’s been one week since that time. Now, it turns out, Smolenski has quietly pawned off the marque on a pair of Florida-based businessmen, Adam Burdette and Jean Michel Santacreu.
As the story goes, TVR’s new owners believe that the company can sell about 5000 units per year, and it says they already have 2000 cars ordered by U.S.-based dealers (yes, this sounds fishy to us, too). Further, Burdette and Santacreu apparently only see a trickle of TVRs heading back to Blighty… perhaps 250-500 cars.
So who is going to build ‘em? Ricardo Engineering, a well-regarded supplier, has apparently been tapped for powertrain R&D, and the cars will be assembled in Italy by Bertone. The duo says that they can begin building new TVRs within three months.
Yikers.
And
www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsArticle.aspx?AR=224329
Smolenski's out. Again
28 February 2007
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.
They envisage a 5000-cars-a-year future for Blackpool's best-known automotive brand, and claim they already have firm orders for 2000 cars from dealers in the USA. However, they also believe that, in future, only between 250 and 500 cars a year will be sold in the UK – and that none of those cars will be built here.
TVR is on course to become a 'virtual' car company, whose only tangibles will be the brand, its UK-based day-to-day management, and a 20-strong team of engineers and designers.
Under present plans, TVR will have a collection of partners to manufacture its bodies, chassis, primary components and castings. Shoreham-based Ricardo Engineering will develop and assemble the engines, and final assembly of cars will be at Bertone in Italy. Many of these links have been mooted in the past but have fallen dormant; the partners have the next few weeks to re-activate them.
TVR's new owners (Smolenski expects to take no part) believe they can be making cars within three months. The cars will be updated versions of the Sagaris and Tuscan, possibly with new names and new-shape bodies), but the tubular backbone chassis and slant-six engine (updated with Bosch electronics to Euro IV standard) will be based on the familiar models.
Prices will be held at present levels, according to the Smolenski-appointed managing director, David Oxley, who will be assisting the new owners 'for a period of time'.
Steve Cropley
http://news.windingroad.com/earningsf
TVR Changes Hands Yet Again, This Time To Florida Entrepreneurs
This is all getting a bit absurd. If you’re just catching up with us, embattled British supercar manufacturer TVR appears to be getting passed around like the clap.
In our last episode, the Blackpool-based concern was purchased out of receivership by Russian plutocrat Nikolai Smolenski—the very man who owned the company before it fell into administration at the hands of PFK Partners. It’s been one week since that time. Now, it turns out, Smolenski has quietly pawned off the marque on a pair of Florida-based businessmen, Adam Burdette and Jean Michel Santacreu.
As the story goes, TVR’s new owners believe that the company can sell about 5000 units per year, and it says they already have 2000 cars ordered by U.S.-based dealers (yes, this sounds fishy to us, too). Further, Burdette and Santacreu apparently only see a trickle of TVRs heading back to Blighty… perhaps 250-500 cars.
So who is going to build ‘em? Ricardo Engineering, a well-regarded supplier, has apparently been tapped for powertrain R&D, and the cars will be assembled in Italy by Bertone. The duo says that they can begin building new TVRs within three months.
Yikers.
And
www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsArticle.aspx?AR=224329
Smolenski's out. Again
28 February 2007
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.
They envisage a 5000-cars-a-year future for Blackpool's best-known automotive brand, and claim they already have firm orders for 2000 cars from dealers in the USA. However, they also believe that, in future, only between 250 and 500 cars a year will be sold in the UK – and that none of those cars will be built here.
TVR is on course to become a 'virtual' car company, whose only tangibles will be the brand, its UK-based day-to-day management, and a 20-strong team of engineers and designers.
Under present plans, TVR will have a collection of partners to manufacture its bodies, chassis, primary components and castings. Shoreham-based Ricardo Engineering will develop and assemble the engines, and final assembly of cars will be at Bertone in Italy. Many of these links have been mooted in the past but have fallen dormant; the partners have the next few weeks to re-activate them.
TVR's new owners (Smolenski expects to take no part) believe they can be making cars within three months. The cars will be updated versions of the Sagaris and Tuscan, possibly with new names and new-shape bodies), but the tubular backbone chassis and slant-six engine (updated with Bosch electronics to Euro IV standard) will be based on the familiar models.
Prices will be held at present levels, according to the Smolenski-appointed managing director, David Oxley, who will be assisting the new owners 'for a period of time'.
Steve Cropley
Edited by orgasmicliving!! on Thursday 1st March 05:13
orgasmicliving!! said:
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 deal was signed on the 27th February.
Interesting, but I think an MOU existed long before. NS would not have bought the co. back from the administrators just because he was "hoping" to sell it on. My source named the same names and cited the same pie-in-the-sky strategy as outlined in the articles...at the end of January when I made the first post.
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