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Smolenski's vision for TVR

Nikolai Smolenski isn't quite how I expected him to be. It's not his youth that's the surprise - TVR's sole shareholder is still only 26 - it's the way he wears it. When he bought TVR two years ago, the few pictures that emerged of the young Russian were unflattering. With a mass of unruly straw-coloured hair and a buttoned-up suit, he looked slightly, well, nerdy.

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