Those Londoner's love their cars...

Five day trip, got home yesterday. Unbelievable how many nice cars I saw. Lots of Bentley's, but only one Rolls. Mini's were everywhere!!!, A good number of Aston sightings and quite a few Maseratis too. Just a few Ferraris. Felt like a car show while I was trying to look at everything else. Lots of fun. The last night we walked by the car dealers near Hyde Park which included all the above plus Cadillac and Corvette. The Z06 had a price of 65,000 pounds or not far from $125,000.00 U.S. Coffee and ice cream sundays for two cost me $40.00 dollars afterwards. Very expensive city. Saw this TVR dealer along the "auto row". Don't know much about the car but it was very nice looking. A night shot thru a plate glass window, hope it comes out ok.

I saw the same thing when I was in London, however the people driving those exotic/semi exotic cars definately did not look like Londoners...

Not bad for a Socialist state............ The TVRs look great, but are generally a PITA to own. Poor design for maintenance, and bad electricals (as per British standard). For example, replacing rear lamp bulb requiring cutting out of rear lamp cluster cover, cleaning off caulking, and re-caulking onto body EVERY TIME! Battery located under the footwell inside the car, so impossible to get to once it's gone flat!! They do have big engines and go damn fast when actually running though - just keep away from corners!

TVR....awesome looking cars that make amazing sounds - I never understood how the European noise police let these things out in the wild However, they do have a (fairly worthy) reputation for spending more time on the side of the road with the hood up than anything else. Unfortunately the company looks to have recently gone bust after 60 years of production.........

There is a TVR joke that goes something like this in russia: A son of a rich russian oligarch comes to his dad and says: "Dad, i want buy a TVR", so his dad goes and buys him the whole TVR company. his son says: "I just wanted a car, not the whole company"

London is a very international city - the last figure I saw was that a third of people living in central London are not actually British. One difference I've noticed between European and Americans is that the European owners of exotics tend to drive them more often, probably because they don't have space for multiple cars in their driveways, so every car has to work for a living (Factoid: I read in an Italian car magazine that Italian Ferrari owners average 15000km or 9500 miles per year!)

That particular car is a TVR Sagaris - it has impressive numbers 420+hp from a 6 cylinder engine and is a formidable track car. But, like previously stated, they do have a ton of issues.