It seems that every manufacturer and their dog wants to have an SUV in its lineup, and after hearing that for instance Caterham was looking at one, we now hear TVR is too.
This was revealed to Jalopnik’s Máté Petrány at the Goodwood FoS, who had a 45 minute chat with TVR’s new chairman, Les Edgar.
He announced that the next car the company will release will feature a V8 engine sitting in Gordon Murray Design chassis and that it would be ready in two years’ time. The philosophy, he says, will be to make a “small sports car” that “should scare you” – we like where that is going, although we hope none of that has anything to do with snap oversteer; that’s bad-scary.
The yet unnamed future model will then morph into a series of variants, and if they’re all successful then the firm will look at an SUV. The kind of SUV they have in mind is on will be “light, fast and angry,” according to the source article.
We are quite excited that TVR is coming back with a bang (a chassis by Gordon Murray, engine by Cosworth) and we do want to see them succeed, because the company used to make some of the maddest motors at an OK price and there’s always going to be room for that.
The prospect of an SUV following the same ideals sounds really cool too, even if it’s still not around the corner.
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