TVR moving production abroad

In more sad news for the British Car industry, it looks like TVR is closing down it's Blackpool operations and moving everything to another country. No word on which one yet, but no doubt somewhere with cheaper workers and less unions.

I'm not sure how people never saw this coming once the sale to the Russian guy was made - successful British car companies are few and far between these days (come on Noble and Caterham). Even the tried and tested Land/Range Rover, Jag and Rolls Royce's of this world are owned by someone else.

One hope (being completely selfish for a minute) is that if they're going to save enough money by moving away, it might mean they can afford to get through all those US crash tests etc to start importing cars over here. The only one I've ever seen on these shores was in Swordfish, and being driven by John Travolta....

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