The new forum is the same as the GTR one, also owned by VS. That swapped over to this style some time ago and is now running smoothly although not as busy as it used to be.
The new style takes a bit of getting used to but to be fair they have managed to save and move over a lot of stuff which I thought would disappear, for example the my car section. I expected to lose all my dates and pictures when I added parts in the database. My main criticism is that all my photos in the picture and video section of the forum have now been replaced by thumbnails and links instead of full size. Hopefully they will reappear as full size as in the past I often used this site for hosting pictures which I then linked to on other forums.