TVR’s Wedges were with us throughout the ’80s but the design was essentially 1970s
TVR’s ‘wedge’ models seem to have fallen into a black hole between the M series cars they replaced and the S series that followed. Designer Oliver Winterbottom’s attempt to make TVRs look modern (he’d previously given us the Lotus Elite and Éclat) was far from a triumph in period, and certainly wasn’t helped by the fact that the Tasmin (later called the 280i) launched head-on into the start of the early ’80s recession.