Famed British sports car maker TVR was never the kind of automaker that had its future assured, and that’s why it changed hands several times before finally giving up the ghost in 2012, when its owner, Russian businessman Nikolay Smolenski, announced that it would not be financially-viable for the company to make a new model, and after having split it into several subsidiaries, went bankrupt.
Now, however, it could be coming back, and this is not speculation based on “an unnamed inside source,” as they actually say it on the site, albeit indirectly. Apparently, it was changed sometime between May 1 and 23, when the current background image was added, reading “Never say never…”
We don’t know what it means exactly, or if it’s just motivational, but it wasn’t there before and it is now, so something might have changed in the meantime. One of TVR’s final models, the Sagaris, benefitted from some very striking design details, and was arguably the best car they had ever built, as it was designed with endurance racing in mind.
A new and much more modern car, based on the same kind of look and philosophy as the Sagaris is nice to fantasize about, even if its bonnet/hood would lift and shake at speed too – build quality and panel gap alignment were never TVR’s strong points anyway, but the in-house built straight-six engines they used were…
Note: 2004-2006 TVR Sagaris pictured below
By Andrei Nedelea
Story References: Autofans
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