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Performance Car Oct 1990

Small article with artist picture released from Blackpool.

CAR May 1992

8 page spread called "Beauty and the Beast". Cars First Drive of the 4.3 Griffith, written by Brett Fraser.

Autoweek May 25th 1992 (USA/Canada)

" The Rhythm of The Island " article by Jurgen Zollter. Interesting 2 page spread with Jurgen visiting the Blackpool plant and looking at the new TVR Griffith. Includes a few B&W pictures.

Performance Car June 1992

8 page spread called " Dark Satanic Thrills) by Peter Tomalin on the 4.3 litre.


Fast Lane June 1992

Great 5 page article with many pics and specs with the famous test bed Griffith J524 MHG.Mark halestest around Castle combe and a word from peter Wheeler.

 

More pictures:

Pic 1 , Pic 2

Performnce Car  August 1992

"Judgement Day" An 8 page spread including loads of pictures and text including Specs. Its the Famous 4.3 J631 NFV up against the then new Porsche 968 and the Maserati Spyder.

 

Classic and Sportscar Nov 1992

"Great Balls of Fire" A 6 page spread including loads of pictures and text of a 60's Griffith and the 4.3 Griffith. Info on work at David Geralds and Owner Gerry Marshall's car.

 
  

Performance Car Feb 1993

Clarkson Decides in "The Powers That Be". A 6 page article with the Griffith 4.3 up against the 5.0 AC Cobra.

Autocar and Motor Oct 1993

Motor show special driving all the show stars. The Griffith 500 Autocar road test covers 4 pages.Loads of pictures of the famous L110 and good page on specs/perfomance and costs.

TopGear Oct 1993

War Games Article covering a Battle against 4 othe marques including Porsche and Ferrari. 4 pages of L110 with pics and specs.

Fast Lane November 1993

"Its Grrreat!"8 page article with a Dark blue 500. The beast is taken around Combe circuit in the Rain so unfortunately no lap records broken by Mark Hales. Also " The Hicksville Connection " article about the 1960's Griffith. Lots of pictures and Stats.

Car Nov 1993

Car November 1993

Which is the real sportscar! 500 Vs 911 article by Mark Gilles, 8 pages including many pics and extra article by Ljk Setright.

MotorSport 1995

"Muscle for Pleasure" 

4 page article testig the red L110 BVF 5.0ltr. lots of pics a spec chart and some strange comments in the article, IMHO.

 

 

Performance Car Nov 1993

Two Articles on the Griffith and a small article on the "new" Cerbera. Also a TVR Tuscan Challenge article.

Five of hearts is a 7 pages spread on what s a Real Sportscar includes the 4.3 J175 NLL . Two pages of Pictures and specs for the Griffith.

 

Performance Car Nov 1993

"In The Line of Fire" pits the L110 BFV against the Chrysler Viper RT10. 8 Pages of pictures, specs and great words by Peter Dronon his thoughts of teh two cars on the open roads.

Classic and SportsCar April 1995

The TVR Tribe, Martin Buckley Drives a 12 TVR's up to the Griffith and Chimaera. 8 Pages with about 1/2 page on Griffith along with 3 colour pictures.

The Encyclopedia of SuperCars issue 95

A six page spread of the 4.3 including a quad page pullout . Includes Engine,specs, data file, Styling,Chassis and running gear, Driving and many pictures.

Automobiles (France) September 1997

"Dynamite Ou TNT" article in a French Magazine.8 pages with plenty of glossy pictures of a yellow left hooker Griffith up against BMW M roadster... I think the Griffith is the Dynamite and TNT ;)

   
 

Fabulous Sport Cars, The Daily Telegraph 1997

A very small article with one picture of the Griffith J160 LFE 4.x ltr. A bit of history on the company along with an other article of th esame size on the Grantura.


Het Automobiel 6th June 1997

 

Dutch Owner Marc Kerkhofs Griffith appears in the Dutch monthly magazine.It is involved witha comparison test with a TVR 3000S conv.

Thanks Marc for sharing the articles with us.

Autoweek no.22 23-30 May 1997

Owner Marc Kerkhofs Griffith appears in the weekly magazine,Includes many pics and Specs and special incl. centrefold poster.

Top Car Fast car sales May 1999

Foget the Chimp on the front cover this mag covers a buyers guide, The evolution, price guide and owners view fom Colin Parry. Also covers the Chimeara and Cerbera.

Classic and Sportscar Dec 2000

"TVR's Titan" covers 6 pages with a market view, Fact file and writers comments. Dealers comments from Doug at David Geralds along with some great pictures.

Autocar April 2002

Rob Aherne buys a 4.2 for a used car article which covers 6 pages along with pictures History and a loose buyers guide.

ClassicCars Dec 2002

Driving Our Ads article, very small article on a 4.0 by Phil Bell. Includes buyers checklist.

Classic Cars

ClassicCars Jan 2003

Which classic cars ultimate buyers guide. 4 pages of info by Malcolm McKay. A must read for any Buyer, covers just about everything.

AutoCars 100 Road Test Summer 2003

Article from the 92 Road test which includes the famous comment " The Griffith is so close to being a world beater it hurts". History, Design & Engineering, On the road, Living with the car, Verdict which was 8/10.

Evo Oct. 2003

Hidden Treasures Article in which the 4.3 is pitted against an M635Csi and a 968CS. Jethro Bovingdon puts the case over from the 4.3 along with buyers advice, specs and parts prices servicing costs. Also includes owner Paul Hillman's views.

Classic and Sportscar Dec 2004

Marque Make 6 page article. Pits the Boxter against the Griffith 4.0. With Adrian Blyth's comments along with plenty of arguments and some stunning pictures.

Classic and Sportscar March 2005

Ten Grand Grunt Article on owning a Griffith for £10k.Short spread with comments from owners Rob Ingleby and Steve Heath..

EVO December 2005

TVR vs Marcos article, sagaris against TSO GT2.

Followed up by a page with our Beloved Maggit test Driving the MArcos and saying how he thinks it compares to the Griffith. The market Marcos are hopefully going to take a few customers from. With Pictures.


Evo June 2006

A one page spread about the Birth of an Icon with K14 TVR making another appearance.

 

Words by Colin Goodwin

Octane July 2006

Buyers Guide article with 4 pages of info specs, history along with some nice pictures.

Words by Richard Dredge
Old Flame
Lake District

 

EVO Best of British Sportscars 2006

8 Page spread when Peter Tomalin Returns to the Lake District in one of the Last 100 's, 9 years on from when he first went in the road-test Griffith. Great article including a small piece on the first and last Griffith. In Fact the whole magazine is a must for British Sport car Fanatics.


New Flame
First and Last
 

EVO Best of British Sportscars 2006

That good I had to add a couple more pictures.

The article includes last 100 no S996 JCK.

 

 

Classic & Sportscar Jan 2007

Rob Packs Yellow 96 Griffith ( which is the Fastest year and Colour ;)  ) is on Show in the Blackpool Peers 9 page spread on the Life of TVR from 1949 - to date.

Loads of pictures of all the TVRs. 

 

Classic & Sportscar March 2007

1 page article by owner Ben Buchanan about his 4.3 renovation

 

Classic Cars For Sale June 2007

Marques Special covering the TVR. Small piece on the Griffith.


Classiccars July 2007

Excellent Article about the Development Griffith now owned and Restored by Steve Prevett. 5 page spread with loads of information about the cars History along with some fine pictures. The Griffith Pages covere the story here, LINK

 

Classic And Sportscar Feb 2008

7 Page Article "Whats Your Poison?" pitting Al Reynards 4.0 litre Griffith up against the AC MkIV and Viper. Plenty of nice pictures including action ones as the TVR nearly wins over the article writer Alister Clemenets but the AC pips it at the post.

 

 

Here is a list of other magazines which have included Griffith articles, it doesn't include the ones listed above. I know there are more out there and shall add them as and when I find them.

Magazine Month/Year Model
WorldSportscars March 1992 4.0ltr
Autoexpress May 1992 4.0ltr
High Performance June 2992 4.3 ltr
Autocar and Motor June 1992 4.3ltr
Which Car August 1992 4.0ltr
Motor Sport August 1992 4.0ltr
What Car October 1992 4.3ltr
Autoexpress September 1992 4.3ltr
Sunday Telegraph September 1992 4.0ltr
Autoweek August 1993 4.3ltr
Carweek September 1993 5.0ltr
Car November 1993 5.0ltr
Performance Car December 1993 5.0ltr
Autocar March 1994 5.0ltr
Auto Express 1994 5.0ltr
British Car April 1995 5.0ltr
Car February 1996 5.0ltr
Kit Car September 1997 5.0ltr
Top Gear February 1998 4.3ltr
Evo December 1998 5.0ltr
Evo April 1999 5.0ltr
Evo July 1999 5.0ltr
Evo April 2001 5.0ltr
Evo December 2001 4.3ltr
Autocar November 2002 4.3ltr
The Sunday Times November 2002 4.3ltr
The Sunday Times June 2003 5.0 ltr