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Originally Posted by MSups6
No NA sales ? ahh so they want to fail again.
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FriskyDingo has it right: TVR never sold cars in the U.S. because it was a corporate mantra not to burden TVRs with unnecessary equipment like airbags, ABS, reinforced bumpers, etc. It was so dedicated to lightness, the NA market wasn't even
considered.
What killed TVR was bad investment and business practices, an insistence on using its own motors, and horrible reliability.
Now that the European market is, in some ways, more stringent than the U.S. one, TVRs here are likely only a matter of time if this revival works ... and since the Griffith is using a Mustang V8, it's already got a head start in both mechanical reliability and emissions.
Short of a Jag E-Type, TVR's are the most beautiful British cars ever built. Supra-esque rear aside, this thing is stunning.