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Russian TVR ?
RoadkillUK - 27/7/04 at 11:03 PM

Russian buys TVR

Sad day

Viper - 27/7/04 at 11:32 PM

Bispham, Lancashire. ???
is that the same as blackpool? coz of the many times i have been to the factory it was in blackpool????

Peteff - 28/7/04 at 12:08 AM

He seems to specialise in patent prosecution. Russian mob involvement and money laundering springs to mind, allegedly.. If you do not here from me in the very near future you know why.

mangogrooveworkshop - 28/7/04 at 03:19 AM

Eye lika da car soo much i buya da company! LOL

thekafer - 28/7/04 at 03:38 AM

It could be worse,It might've sold to the French......From what I've seen, they really know how to F**k a car up...

Noodle - 28/7/04 at 07:16 AM

quote:
Originally posted by mangogrooveworkshop
Eye lika da car soo much i buya da company! LOL


I thought he was Russian, not Italian

Cheers,

Neil.

James - 28/7/04 at 08:03 AM

From BBC site:

"Former banker Nikolai Smolenski "

I just heard about this on Today. They said the guy was 24!

Ach, it's a hard life this inheritance business!

James

mackie - 28/7/04 at 09:08 AM

I just hope he doesn't f**k it up.
I expect he will want to try and "do" America, which will involve cleaner, quieter engines...

Noodle - 28/7/04 at 11:01 AM

Next thing you know, he'll be expanding by buying in a FWD fist sized piece of Indian sh?ite and rebadging it as the TownTVR.

It could happen.

Neil.

mackie - 28/7/04 at 11:34 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Noodle
Next thing you know, he'll be expanding by buying in a FWD fist sized piece of Indian sh?ite and rebadging it as the TownTVR.

It could happen.

Neil.


Then maybe doing a jacked up version of the Tamora covered in slabs of grey plasic and calling it the Tamora Streetwise

Alez - 28/7/04 at 12:10 PM

At least he bought TVR and not Triumph or (worse yet) Lotus.

marktigere1 - 28/7/04 at 01:44 PM

Wonder if Chelsea will get a deal on TVR's for their 'staff'?

Guinness - 28/7/04 at 10:09 PM

Seems like a smart move to sell the company, at exactly the same time that Rover stop making the V8 that powers almost every TVR??

I wonder if the Russian knows? Perhaps if you bore out two Lada engines and bolt 'em together???

Noodle - 29/7/04 at 06:59 AM

They make their own engines these days from an Al Melling design.

Link

Cheers,

Neil

Viper - 29/7/04 at 07:53 AM

The Rover V8 hasn't been used for a long time, the AJP V8 was only put into cerbera's all the later stuff,Tuscan, Tamora, T350 etc use the speed 6 engine.

mackie - 29/7/04 at 07:59 AM

I think only the cerbera uses a V8 (and not a rover one) now, the new mental 580bhp T440 thing uses a supercharged straight 6 and everything else has variations on the 6 cyl engine. Oh and the speed 12 has a rather potent V12
I wonder where Bowler will go for their power from now on...