Give up the ghost

As surely as the new year rolls around, so comes news of the latest predictable non-starter from TVR (News, 10 January).

The story always writes itself: still no factory, no production line, no cars, no money and the same six-year-old Griffith design representing “cutting-edge sports cars” and “the highest standard of performance and quality”.

It’s time to give up, guys. The world has moved on. We can’t go through this for another year. Time to return any of those deposits that prospective buyers have been foolish enough to let you keep all this time.

Ian Barclay Angmering, West Sussex

Missing Peter Wheeler

When I read these TVR stories, I always think about my old chum Peter Wheeler. What he did with TVR was simply outstanding. Okay, the cars were – what can we say? – a bit unreliable. But Peter’s force of character and the fact that everyone loved and admired him made the problems go away. He wasn’t a bad driver, either – particularly when he had one of his ‘development’ engines under the hood of his Tuscan!

Nikolai Smolensky [TVR’s owner from 2004 through its demise until 2013] seemed to have some sensible ideas but lacked the concentration to focus on the task in hand.