After making his money in oil equipment, Wheeler purchased TVR back in 1981 from Martin Lilley and owned it until 2004, when he sold the firm to young Russian plutocrat Nikolai Smolenski.

Get to understand and respect a TVR and it could be a supercar killer. Wheeler sold TVR to Russian Nikolai Smolenski in 2004 who promised much and delivered nothing in nine years of ownership.

Enigmatic TVR boss Peter Wheeler was nothing if not ambitious. Under his helmsmanship the small British sports car firm designed and built its own straight-six, V-8 and, V-12 engines, and even had ...

Nikolai Smolenski's tenure as owner of TVR, the formerly revered maker of hairy-chested British sports cars, is nothing if not quizzical. He bought the company from late founder Peter Wheeler when ...