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Supercars: Torque of the Devil: TVR Cerbera Speed 12 for Sale
Jalopnik | 419 days ago
Despite TVR's continued drain-circling, or perhaps because of it, snapping up what is perhaps its finest motoring achievement for a princely sum almost seems a civic duty. It's the Cerbera Speed 12,...
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41 39 vote!
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Choose Your Eternity: Project Car Hell: TVR 280i or Maserati Merak?
Jalopnik | 464 days ago
We had our most one-sided Choose Your Eternity Poll ever yesterday, with Humber Sceptre getting obliterated by the Reliant Scimitar. Today we're going back to cars you can buy in the US of A, and...
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28 33 vote!
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Be afraid -- and very happy -- TVR is returning.
Autoblog.com | 602 days ago
Filed under: Sports/GTs
TVR is the formerly Blackpool, England-based maker of fearsome coupes and roadsters not seen in this land (outside of movies like Swordfish) since the 1980s-era TVR Tasmin. Now TVR is owned by an Orlando party planner and a guy who imports Japanese domestic-market cars, w ...
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34 24 vote!
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As TVR Turns: Sports-car company’s history plays like a TV soap opera
AutoWeek | 603 days ago
In a chilly airplane hangar in Polk City, Florida, the official coming-out party for the new TVR company took place in early March, hosted by new owners Jean-Michel Santacreu, an amateur racing driver and head of an Orlando convention and party...
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82 31 vote!
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Straight from the horse's mouth: Here's the deal at TVR
Autoblog.com | 639 days ago
Filed under: Sports/GTs, Etc., Euro, Supercars
It seems that the never-ending story of TVR has been given a new chapter. Russian Nikolai Smolenski, just days after selling the company, has bought it back for an additional £2 million. This time he has additional backing from two Americans. CAR ...
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85 29 vote!
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The Floridians and Boy Billionaire on TVR, Terlet
Jalopnik | 640 days ago
The autophiles over at the UK's CAR tracked down Jean Michel Santacrue and Adam Burdette, TVR's new overlords, as well as teenage Russian baznillionaire Nikolai Smolenski who is expected to soon cut...
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32 34 vote!
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TVR Out of the Terlet and Into the Florida?
Jalopnik | 645 days ago
Apparently, teenage Russian Billionaire has tired of running a sports car company again. After buying TVR back out of receivership a week ago, he's now sold it to Sunshine State bidnessmen Adam...
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30 30 vote!
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Enough already! Smolenski sells TVR
Autoblog.com | 645 days ago
Filed under: Euro
We'll parrot our friends over at Hemmings Auto Blog when they say, "Now it's just getting ridiculous." After Nikolai Smolenski bought back what assets were left of TVR last week, we're now getting word from Autocar that Adam Burdette and Jean Michel Santacreu, owners of Evolution I ...
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25 25 vote!
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TVR sold again, to Smolenski
Autoblog.com | 650 days ago
The soap opera that has been the recent history of TVR has taken another turn. The administrators of PKF Partners have announced the sale TVR's asset's to none other Nikolai Smolenski, the previous owner who oversaw the failure of the company in the first place. The sale price hasn't been released, ...
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31 26 vote!
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Russian TVR takeover take two
WhatCar? | 650 days ago
Sports car brand TVR has once again been bought by Russian Nikolai Smolensky
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42 28 vote!
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Will Boy Billionaire Say Yes to Wakeman/Melling TVR Buyout?
Jalopnik | 660 days ago
No, this tale does not come from the Topographic Ocean, but rather the UK. A consortium headed by British sports car guy Al Melling and Yes keyman Rick Wakeman is reportedly looking to buy TVR from...
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27 27 vote!
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Will Al Melling and Nikolai Smolenski start bidding war for TVR?
Autoblog.com | 664 days ago
Filed under: Sports/GTs, Supercars
You may have noticed our post Wednesday about TVR's owner Nikolai Smolenski losing his trademark rights and certain tooling. Yesterday, it was revealed that the entire company is, in fact, for sale. Expected bidders include Al Melling and possibly even Nikolai Smol ...
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96 24 vote!
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Al Melling to acquire TVR?
Auto Spies | 665 days ago
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30 34 vote!
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TVR's trademarks swiped from teenage Russian owner
Autoblog.com | 665 days ago
Filed under: Euro
The iconic British auto brand TVR will almost certainly not be making any more vehicles in the U.K. Instead, as the Independent reports, future models will most likely be built in Asia. Why? Because, Nikolai Smolensky, known as the "Baby oligarch," split off an administration arm f ...
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39 27 vote!
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TVR Typhoon takes shape
Autoblog.com | 667 days ago
Filed under: Sports/GTs, Euro, Supercars
It ain't over till the fat lady sings, and although it promises to be a real screamer, TVR's seductress is anything but fat. We were pleased to bring you earlier information on the upcoming Typhoon, and now more details and computer-generated preview images ...
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27 37 vote!
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Possible TVR Typhoon Renderings
Auto Spies | 690 days ago
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25 33 vote!
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Troubled TVR's wall of silence
Auto Express, UK | 693 days ago
The crisis at sports car maker TVR appears to be deepening
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26 32 vote!
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TVR in the Terlet?
Jalopnik | 702 days ago
Ooh 'eck. Things aren't looking so rosy in Blackpool right now. Blackpool Automotive, the arm of TVR which owns the factory where the sports cars are built has gone into receivership and no employees...
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24 25 vote!
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FOR SALE: TVR needs new owner to stay alive
Autoblog.com | 702 days ago
Filed under: Euro, Supercars
A brief report on TopGear.com reveals that the British sports car builder TVR has been "placed in adminitstration," which we believe is Brit for something akin to Chapter 11. The report states that administrators PKF (UK) intends to sell the automaker to keep it alive. T ...
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81 34 vote!
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eBay Find of the Day: TVR Cerbera Speed 12
Autoblog.com | 722 days ago
Filed under: Auction Action, Supercars
In 2000, British car maker TVR set out to dethrone the McLaren F1 from atop the automotive performance kingdom. Their weapon? The Cerbera Speed 12. With a 7-liter engine shoved into its 1,000 kilo frame, TVR was talking about an estimated top speed near 240 MPH ...
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87 30 vote!
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Owners of TVRs make noise for carmaker
Autoblog.com | 737 days ago
Filed under: Sports/GTs
More than 400 TVR owners paraded their steeds through London this past Sunday, in an attempt to kill two pheasants with one (very loud) stone. London Thunder was first an attempt to break the world record for the largest convoy of a single car make. And the second goal was to ...
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34 33 vote!
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TVR owners take to tar to protest factory closure
Motoring.co.za | 739 days ago
Hundreds of TVR owners drove their sports cars through London on Sunday in an attempt to help save the company that built their exclusive vehicles.
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82 29 vote!
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TVR planning 600bhp Typhoon supercar
Autoblog.com | 749 days ago
Filed under: Euro, SupercarsDespite all of the stories we've run about TVR shutting down, being saved, closing the UK plant, allying themselves with Bertone, and rallying to honor Liverpool workers, this is the story we really wanted to report. A new 600-hp Typhoon (not to be confused with the Typho ...
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85 43 vote!
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TVR enthusiasts unite to honor idled Bispham factory workers
Autoblog.com | 758 days ago
Filed under: Sports/GTs, Hirings/Firings, Plants/Manufacturing
In a demonstration of support and thanks, TVR owners and enthusiasts from across the UK rallied together to show the workers at the TVR assembly plant on Bristol Avenue that their efforts have not gone unnoticed or unappreciated.
As th ...
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39 36 vote!
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Pissed off TVR owners converge on factory
Autoblog.com | 765 days ago
Filed under: Sports/GTs, EuroOur friends at Hemmings came across an article in Blackpool Today that reports about an angry mob of TVR loyalists that are intent on voicing their opinion about the plant's closure en masse. A TVR club is organizing the convergence and is expecting over 7,000 members to ...
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35 34 vote!
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TVR Will Close English Factory :
AutoWeek | 769 days ago
TVR, one of Britain’s few remaining independent carmakers, has announced it will close its factory in Blackpool, England. The company’s 26-year-old owner, Nikolai Smolenski, denies that the company is going out of business.
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54 53 vote!
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Jalopnik Precast: Aston Martin's Champagne Connection, More on Saab, TVR Goes to Italy
Jalopnik | 776 days ago
On today's Jalopnik Precast, Spinelli and Farago wonder if Aston Martin cars can be sold alongside handbags and fancy cocktails, if Saab can be fixed, and if the British TVR might be better off made...
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87 31 vote!
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TVR Moves to Italy and Shacks Up with Bertone
Auto Spies | 776 days ago
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34 37 vote!
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TVR Hooks Up With Bertone
Jalopnik | 776 days ago
Well, there you go. Earlier this week, TVR set off a speculation bomb by announcing its cars would no longer be produced in Blackpool, UK. Would it be Russia? Slovenia? The Kingdom of Bhutan? None of...
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75 34 vote!
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TVR taps Bertone in Italy to build lineup?
Autoblog.com | 777 days ago
Filed under: Sports/GTs, Plants/ManufacturingA new Autocar item is saying that the next-generation of TVRs will be built by Bertone in Italy, using Ricardo-produced engines. This comes on the heels of reports that the tiny manufacturer was leaving the UK. And that announcement followed the initial d ...
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