The New TVR Has Sold Out, Even Though It Doesn't Exist Yet

See the car above? It isn’t the new TVR, it’s the old Sagaris. And the reason for us using this image? No one knows what the new Trevor - arriving in 2017 - will look like. Or how powerful it’ll be. Or how much it’ll cost. Despite that, 250 people have shelled out £5000 each to secure themselves this unknown entity, in only six weeks.

This means that the whole 2017 allocation is sold out; if you want to place a deposit now, you won’t get a car until 2018. So, why the confidence from these punters? It’s probably because this long-awaited rebirth - the work of a consortium led by Les Edgar - sounds particularly promising.

The new car is set to be “engineered in collaboration with” a chap called Gordon Murray - only the guy with the most dominant Grand Prix car ever built plus the McLaren F1 on his CV. Sounds like it’ll have a decent engine, too, as it’ll be a naturally-aspirated, dry-sumped V8 developed by Cosworth.

Given TVR’s many financial meltdowns over the years, we can’t help but be a little pessimistic about everything turning out as hoped, but this time around, all the right ingredients appear to be there. Let’s cross our fingers.