TVR is still preparing for a return to the car market and now something really seems to be happening. The British brand is confident that it will be able to deliver the Griffith next year.
The resurrection of TVR was concluded in 2016 with the first image of the brand new Griffith. Then the plan was to launch it on the market in 2017, but as we know, that was not entirely successful. Despite great interest in the Griffith, TVR is not yet financially strong enough to actually take the car into production. For example, last summer the bad news was brought that the Griffith would not appear on the road yet. Now they have better news: by 2022 the time really must be.
How they manage that financially is a bit unclear. TVR has, according to Carscoops a fresh £ 2 million loan taken out from a lender from which it also borrowed £ 6 million in 2016, but that is nowhere near the £ 25 million hole that TVR referred to last summer. Yet the CEO of the brand opposes that medium that it has now gained insight into the production start. Enough Griffiths would already have been ordered for 40 million pounds in sales, so there is some money on the horizon.
Griffith
Although the Griffith has been among us as a study model for some years, the British sports car still looks nice and controversial. As we are used to from TVRs, but a bit less eccentric than before. The fact that none other than Gordon Murray contributed to the car, of course, bodes well. Otherwise, the fact that a 5.0-liter V8 from Ford (known from the Mustang) unleashes its forces on a whole weighing 1,300 kilos, which makes for a smile. According to TVR, it pays off in a 0-100 km / h sprint that takes less than 4 seconds, provided you can handle the six-speed manual gearbox properly.
Interesting fact: the Griffith is also prepared for hybrid power, so there is a good chance that a version with V6 or four-cylinder with electrical support will arrive in the long run. Who knows, it might become a bit more interesting for the Dutch market. In the United Kingdom there is talk of a starting price of around € 70,000 converted. An open version of the Griffith would also be in development.