The Welsh authorities, from whom the sports car manufacturer leased a production site in Ebb Vale, have put the site up for sale because they want to build a factory on it TVR never succeeded. Now TVR will have to look for a new place to organize the production of its cars.
The TVR company has not produced cars since 2006: then it was owned by a young Russian businessman, Nikolai Smolensky, but he was unable to realize his grandiose plans for TVR and in 2013 sold the company to the British entrepreneur Les Edgar. The new owner entered into a collaboration with Gordon Murray Design and Cosworth – as a result of joint work in 2017, a completely new Griffith sports car was born with a classic layout, a 5.0-liter naturally aspirated engine (a modified version of the Ford V8 Coyote) with a power of about 500 hp. and a 6-speed manual transmission.
New TVR Griffith
Production of the new Griffith was supposed to begin in 2018, but due to organizational problems, then the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences, the start of production was postponed several times. To produce the Griffith, TVR rented an idle production facility in the town of Ebb Vale from the Welsh government; it was the right size, and most importantly, right next door, the authorities planned to build a new Circuit of Wales race track, which TVR could use to test its cars and customer tests. drives. Alas, the track project never materialized, and the construction of the TVR plant in Ebb Vale was delayed due to bureaucratic red tape.
Rendering of the failed TVR plant in Ebb Vale
In 2021, TVR found a promising investor in the Chilean lithium mining corporation Ensorcia Metals, after which the company's development strategy was sharply turned towards electric vehicles. Today the company is officially called TVR Electric Vehicles Limited, but before getting serious about electric vehicles, TVR still wanted to release a limited edition (500 units) of the new generation gasoline Griffith and fulfill its obligations to customers. Unfortunately, the new Griffith is once again stuck because there is simply nowhere to produce it: as the British magazine Autocar reports, the TVR company itself seems to have lost interest in the site in Wales, since there is no promised race track here, and the Welsh government has put this site up for sale sale, since there are people willing to buy it.
New TVR Griffith
At the same time, it became known about the construction of a new TVR headquarters in Thruxton (a village in the English county of Hampshire) next to the existing race track of the same name, but it is not a fact that the TVR plant will be located here – a new location for it has not yet been chosen. The plant may even have to be built or purchased outside the UK. Plans to produce 500 copies of the new Griffith are still in force, followed by an electric sports car on the same platform, then completely new electric models, including a sports crossover, but, of course, no one can name the timing of their appearance now .
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