New TVR Plant in South Wales as TVR’s new Cosworth V8-powered car gets closer

TVR is back in business with a new car using Gordon Murray’s iStream manufacturing and Cosworth V8, and it will be built in South Wales.

It’s nearly three years since Les Edgar snapped up TVR from Russian owner Nikolai Smolensky, and it finally looks like real progress is being made with the announcement of a new TVR Production Facility to be located in the Ebbw Vale Enterprise Zone in South Wales.

The announcement was made this morning by Carwyn Jones, the First Minister of Wales, although precise details haven’t been released.

But it looks like the new TVR Plant will be on the doorstep of the new Circuit of Wales – a perfect playground for sorting the new TVRs – either in a new facility at the circuit’s technology park or at an existing site close by.

The announcement of the new facility makes real the promise of new cars from TVR, with a new manufacturing process developed by Gordon Murray (the man responsible for the McLaren F1, who has also designed the car and chassis) set to make production highly efficient, and a new Cosworth V8 promising some serious horsepower.

Despite not even having a factory to build their cars until today, TVR has managed to secure more than 350 deposits from TVR fans for the new car, which means more than the first year’s production is already spoken for.

No doubt, now they have somewhere to build it, we’ll start to get more details on the first all-new TVR in a decade.