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      09-11-2017, 08:54 PM   #23
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Aside from the Macca 720 lights, that's pretty tits. TVR's have always looked good, maybe this one will actually work.
You mean the 570s? cuz those lights look nothing like 720s lights.


Either way, it looks like a ebay replica of the Supra concept.. other than the profile, its ugly AF.
Nope, 720s. Nearly identical shape, with a dumb, flat LED bisecting them and the lower part. Admittingly, the Macca elements look predictably swankier. bu equally ugly and heavy handed on both cars.

[img]https://storage.googleapis.com/gtspi...ren-720S-4.jpg[/img]

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I actually like both cars in total, but the lights of both are awful.
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      09-12-2017, 08:06 AM   #25
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Aside from the Macca 720 lights, that's pretty tits. TVR's have always looked good, maybe this one will actually work.
You mean the 570s? cuz those lights look nothing like 720s lights.


Either way, it looks like a ebay replica of the Supra concept.. other than the profile, its ugly AF.
Nope, 720s. Nearly identical shape, with a dumb, flat LED bisecting them and the lower part. Admittingly, the Macca elements look predictably swankier. bu equally ugly and heavy handed on both cars.

[img]https://storage.googleapis.com/gtspi...ren-720S-4.jpg[/img]

[img]https://www.carkeys.co.uk/media/1473...93604310000000[/img]

I actually like both cars in total, but the lights of both are awful.
Sorry, I dont see it at all. Unless you are including the intakes under the Mclarens headlight as part of the headlight..

The 570 is much closer.
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Yeah, including the whole eye makeup area of the 720. Agreed that the actual light assembly does more closely resemble the 570, but from five feet away, the whole area of the TVR and 720 look very similar. Either way, pretty Macca influenced light design.
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Man I remember wetting my pants over pictures of TVR's in college... good to know they're still around. Not that they're around here...
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Aside from the Macca 720 lights, that's pretty tits. TVR's have always looked good, maybe this one will actually work.
I had a TVR T350T for about three weeks. I thought the stories of them being unreliable was just hearsay and went ahead and bought one.

Sadly its true, they were poorly made pieces of junk that looked good, sounded good and went pretty fast. But only if it started in the first place!

I took mine back to the dealers and asked for my money back!

Having the engine fail, including the headlights going out at the same time when driving at speed on an unlit road is not much fun, that I can tell you!

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Well it's certainly nice to look at just sitting there. Suppose they were good third cars, if you had others that actually worked.
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Well it's certainly nice to look at just sitting there. Suppose they were good third cars, if you had others that actually worked.
I hope this TVR resurrection works. If they can prove to be at least reliable, then there is definately a market for cars like this.

Personally I am not so keen on the front end of this new Griffith, but its hard to really appreciate what this car really looks like from photos and videos. Take the M2 for instance, all the photos and videos that I looked at before seeing one IRL didn't do the M2 justice. Much nicer in person!
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