TVR 'targeting 5000 sales per year'

[Elegy]

No, they've never claimed their car's are safer without airbag's, they've claimed their car's are safe enough without them, they pass crash tests really well, though any crash tests done are done normally by independant bodies, not TVR since TVR are exempt from crash testing thier car's due to the low volume. The traction control issue was down to the long travel lenth of the accelerator, the accelerator was less sensetive but had a longer travel, so again they didn't need traction control. However, for road use, I'd say traction control could be a benefit, on a track though, you'd just want it off regardless. Also thoes idea's we're from Wheeler, not Smolenski, regarding airbag's, that's a blatant plus, traction control is only a plus if it can be switched completely off, same with ABS.

Interesting. I'd always believed they were more hostile towards such things than that.

 

[Dave A]

It's not so much that they were hostile towards them, just tradition that TVR's never had thoes things, and they found way's to not warraant including them. But the more you tihnk about it, there isn't really any downside to including thoes things, if like I said, you can turn the ABS and TCS off.

 

[YSSMAN]

...Hence the GM sports cars having two options for traction control: On and Off...

No one wants a nanny bothering their drive like what would happen with any German or Japanese car, thankfully the British, the Italians and the Americans have some sense when doing it, or just don't put it on at all...

 

[Poverty]

^^ I think you have forgotten about porsche, but now that you mention it I wonder if any of the quattro audi's have TC, Ive never heard people talk about it ever.

Also alot of the BMWs and mercs have it optional to have on or or aswell as imprezas evos and 350z's.

 

[Elegy]

...Hence the GM sports cars having two options for traction control: On and Off...

Actually, the Corvette has three options. On, "competition mode" (still on, but allows more slip before engaging), and off.