British sports car maker TVR is back, at least in the U.K., and one of the reasons you won't be able to order one is because they're all sold out for 2017, Auto Express reports. Another reason you won't be able to order one, of course, is the fact that a new car cannot be imported into the U.S. without a lengthy round of crash testing, assuming it was built to U.S. safety standards promulgated by the NHTSA and the EPA to begin with.

Established makers of supercars like Lamborghini regularly sell out special editions before production even starts, but TVR was reportedly able to secure orders for 250 cars -- its entire 2017 allotment -- before even showing buyers what they would be getting or revealing where the new factory would be located.

What has been revealed is that it will be front-engined, that engine will be a dry-sump Cosworth V8 and the rear wheels will get the power. We also know that the engine was developed with help from Gordon Murray, and we surmise this played a significant role in how quickly the 250 examples went. Expect a composite body and a manual transmission in keeping with the old TVR formula -- none of that paddle or push-button tech.

"We began to take deposits in June purely because we had so much clear demand and potential customers," director John Chasey told Auto Express. "Here we are only a few weeks later announcing this remarkable order take."

Each buyer ponied up was £5,000, or approximately $7,700. The company plans to field four new models over the next decade.

The rights to the TVR name as well as the manufacturing equipment for the old models were purchased in 2013 by Les Edgar, a businessman from Surrey, U.K., from Nikolai Smolenski, who bought the struggling company in 2004. Production stopped shortly after Smolenski's purchase of the carmaker, with the company ceasing operations in 2013. Prior to Smolenski's purchase of TVR, the company was owned by Peter Wheeler.

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