RUMORMILL: TVR Making An Epic Comeback, Is This The International Collaboration You Always Hoped For?

Carscoop reports:

Simply put, historically-British baby-Russian-oligarch-owned TVR is planning a resurgence of the world-wide kind. Rumors are that the new TVR model, whatever it's going to be called, will be powered by an American engine and may even debut at this year's Goodwood festival of Speed.

As for those American power trains, anything GM and V8 comes to mind as most-likely in this day and age, although TVR has been known to source from Ford in the past.

Why American? No doubt the crate engines would end up saving the company a ton of dough in development costs and reliability issues (wasn't the Chevy small-block designed by Christ himself?)...

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Joe_Limon - 2/22/2010 7:59:22 PM

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With American power, Russian ownership, and German manufacturing, just how much of this next tvr will be British?

veyron1001 - 2/22/2010 11:28:59 PM

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Its not. Its been Russian owned for years.

racinghart - 2/23/2010 4:59:22 AM

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strictly speaking it won't be - although you could say it will be British Project Managed if they use any of the original team to pull it together - much like a large proportion of the current F1 grid. Whatever, you can bet that if they turn out to be unreliable like TVR's of the past then it will be tagged (and blamed) as being a British car...

91z4me - 2/23/2010 9:47:04 AM

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TVR could be sourcing Ford's new 5.0 DOHC V8 from the Mustang GT. 400 hp and it is lighter than the old 4.6. They could also pick the updated aluminum 5.4 supercharged GT500 engine (which when properly tuned in certain models gets 600+ hp and a factor warranty!).