1987 MVS Venturi

1987 MVS Venturi in Howards' Way, TV Series, 1985-1990 Ep. 5.05

Class: Cars, Coupé — Model origin: — Made for:

Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene

Author	Message
mike962 ◊ 2012-08-11 12:31	COUPE 260 ? like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Venturi_260_LM_3.4_front.jpg -- Last edit: 2012-08-11 12:37:42
dsl ◊ 2012-08-11 12:44	Briefly sold in UK with RHD.
Sandie ◊ 2012-08-11 14:27	Coupe as here: /vehicle_61398-Venturi-Coupe-1991.html
Ingo ◊ 2012-08-11 18:42	@Weasel:
Sandie ◊ 2012-08-11 18:57	A behind the scenes picture: Link to "www.flickr.com" I'm starting to wonder if these should be listed under MVS.
mike962 ◊ 2012-08-11 19:12	the car only apperead in this one scene alone
Exiv96 ◊ 2017-04-17 10:10	Sandie wrote I'm starting to wonder if these should be listed under MVS. It is indeed an earlier MVS Venturi. And the origin is France, not yet Monaco.
993cc ◊ 2022-11-09 23:35	1987-90 before the name change
dsl ◊ 2022-11-10 00:34	Book comment that UK sales were first tried in 1991, including the RHD conversion, but quickly bombed. 2nd attempt in 1994 with Atlantique 300 and new ownership was similarly brief.
Sandie ◊ 2022-11-10 00:41	1989 episode: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0607951/?ref_=ttep_ep5
dsl ◊ 2022-11-10 00:46	Bloody books ...
dsl ◊ 2022-11-10 05:09	... unless perhaps they built a RHD prototype in 1989 as a market-tester, hawked it round film/TV production teams for onscreen exposure (and probably to UK car mags for print coverage), with enough encouraging results to launch a RHD range here from 1991??