The TVR Automotive Limited thread
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Visited the 'Practical restoration classic car show' yesterday at the NEC in Birmingham (UK).
Some guy had just finished painting the body of his 'Tuscan Challenge road car' (Cadbury Purple). The thing was pure awesome! Was great to see the chassis and body separate, only wish i could have attended it today (Sunday) to see the build finished.
Apparently, one of the guys who had originally built the Cerbera Speed Twelves, helped build some bespoke parts for this guys car, so it was quite special indeed.
Unfortunately i didn't get any pics to show you guys. But trust me, the car was amazing! Puts more modern TVR's to shame (imo).
It was basically the same colour as this Tuscan Challenge race car:
Some guy had just finished painting the body of his 'Tuscan Challenge road car' (Cadbury Purple). The thing was pure awesome! Was great to see the chassis and body separate, only wish i could have attended it today (Sunday) to see the build finished.
Apparently, one of the guys who had originally built the Cerbera Speed Twelves, helped build some bespoke parts for this guys car, so it was quite special indeed.
Unfortunately i didn't get any pics to show you guys. But trust me, the car was amazing! Puts more modern TVR's to shame (imo).
It was basically the same colour as this Tuscan Challenge race car:
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- Riga
Visited the 'Practical restoration classic car show' yesterday at the NEC in Birmingham (UK).
Some guy had just finished painting the body of his 'Tuscan Challenge road car' (Cadbury Purple). The thing was pure awesome! Was great to see the chassis and body separate, only wish i could have attended it today (Sunday) to see the build finished.
Apparently, one of the guys who had originally built the Cerbera Speed Twelves, helped build some bespoke parts for this guys car, so it was quite special indeed.
Unfortunately i didn't get any pics to show you guys. But trust me, the car was amazing! Puts more modern TVR's to shame (imo).
It was basically the same colour as this Tuscan Challenge race car:
This car was on Toca race driver.
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- Waizon/v8stage1/
Former TVRCC member and have owned 3 TVRs. Going to the meets was always fun - to see 25+ TVRs together was an amazing sight, and the noise, just once in your life you have to hear loads of TVRs accelerate away. The video above helped clinch the decision to have a mid-life crisis and get a Tuscan. Took it on track, and my it was awesome. An Elise may handle better (I've driven one of those on track as well) and a GT-R may be quicker - but a TVR is so much more of an experience.
Am now at a low point in my car history, living in SE Asia driving a Volvo!
Voted Tuscan
And the one in GT6 doesn't pop and bang like mine used too! That was half the fun!!
By the way, the Poll is a little odd. There were 2 completely different Tuscan models. A V8 from the 60s and the Straight 6 from the 2000s. Similar for the Griffith
Strange that the M-series/Taimar models have 4 entries. Yet the more diverse Tasmin/Wedge has only one entry covering the 2.0litre model through to the 4.6 litre SEAC models
No Tamora / T350 option nor T400/T440/R/Typhoon models
Even so, I still think that the Tuscan Straight Six should be the winner: Amazing shape, loud, powerful engine, fast and open top: everything you'd want in a TVR if you were to own one.
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I've always wondered what the ownership experience of a Tuscan would be like, how did you find it? I've heard that they're not terribly reliable and they're fairly temperamental. I'd still love one, though, just so that I could take the roof off on a sunny day and listen to the awesome exhaust note. I got a ride in a Tuscan once and it was an incredible experience. I loved that a nice prod of the throttle when in neutral was enough to make the Ferrari driver stop revving hers. It made the California sound so tame and meek
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I've always wondered what the ownership experience of a Tuscan would be like, how did you find it? I've heard that they're not terribly reliable and they're fairly temperamental. I'd still love one, though, just so that I could take the roof off on a sunny day and listen to the awesome exhaust note. I got a ride in a Tuscan once and it was an incredible experience. I loved that a nice prod of the throttle when in neutral was enough to make the Ferrari driver stop revving hers. It made the California sound so tame and meek
I had a Tuscan for 18 months or more. In the UK you have many specialists and lots of knowledgeable and friendly owners/previous owners.
The main problem is the need for the original engine to have a rebuild - circa £6-10,000. I bought one with an original engine and sold it before the rebuild was needed. Buying one that has has a rebuild is much safer.
The driving experience was amazing, everyone wanted to have a ride - several wanted to have pictures taken with the car, or would simply stop and stare at it. Very very easy to get speeding tickets, and if you drive like an idiot - to spin and crash
They are temperamental cars, but I didn't find it troublesome - unless i let the battery drain. Not an easy car to jumpstart - but there are ways to make it easier ... using it a couple of times a week is the best. Servicing and parts can be scary, but insurance can be very cheap! When I come back to UK - I'll see if I can get another ... definately
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Found the post where I included a picture of the Tuscan
I'll play:
2 of the cars I've bought for my wife are in GT5: her own red MGF that we replaced with a yellow Audi TT.
Unfortunately, most of the cars I've owned haven't appeared in GT5, that is apart from my toy:
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That purple is just gorgeous. No wonder everyone wanted photos!
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TVR back again, maybe?
"Remember how we all heard TVR was back, interviewed its new owner Les Edgarand then ... things went a bit quiet?
If you feared that was the end of that Autocar today brings us news that the reborn TVRis very much is on track and due on sale in 2017. It gets better too. Gordon Murray - yes, Gordon Murray - has confirmed his involvement with the project and though technical details are sketchy the basics would appear to be very, well, TVR. Namely V8 power from a Cosworth-built engine, rear-wheel drive, manual transmission, a kerbweight less than a Toyota GT86 (1,100kg is suggested) and pricing to "pick up where the last range left off". Edgar, Murray and operations director John Chasey claim to be fully funded and hope to build 1,000-1,500 TVRs a year in a UK factory, location TBC.
Real thing or file under 'believe it when you see it'?
Given previous experience a degree of scepticism would be natural enough. Not least because those looking to spend upwards of £60K on a traditional hairy chested British sports car would, of course, seem very well served by the Jaguar F-Type. Bit more cash and more old-school tastes? An Aston Martin Vantage is still a very appealing prospect. Looking beyond these shores the Mercedes-AMG GT does a similar thing rather well and Maserati is looking to enter the front-engined GT market too. Different kind of cars but it's impossible to ignore Porsche's hold on this sector of the sports car market too.
But having met them in person Autocar's Steve Cropley paints Edgar and his team as die-hard TVR fans and owners, convinced that the desire for more back to basics, lightweight and hardcore cars the like of which TVR used to build hasn't gone away. And isn't currently served by any mainstream manufacturer.
Murray's involvement with the project certainly gives it some additional credibility, his much touted iStream production methods - originally intended for his T25 city car - seemingly adaptable enough to be used for hairy chested sports cars too. At heart it uses conventional steel tubes but the composite panels are bonded to it, creating a lightweight and rigid structure. A proprietary engine seems a bold move given memories of TVR's previous efforts on that score but Cosworth's involvement should reassure, Autocar speculating the unit may be based on the Ford Mustang's 5.0-litre lump with something between 450-500hp. And, yes, this time around we'll have ABS and traction control, though you'd expect the latter to be switchable.
Can Edgar, Murray and Chasey really pull it off? Over to you..."
Source: http://www.pistonheads.com/news/ph-britishcars/tvr-is-back-really/32281
Would not be the first false start, but Murray being involved does help lift credibility.
"Remember how we all heard TVR was back, interviewed its new owner Les Edgarand then ... things went a bit quiet?
If you feared that was the end of that Autocar today brings us news that the reborn TVRis very much is on track and due on sale in 2017. It gets better too. Gordon Murray - yes, Gordon Murray - has confirmed his involvement with the project and though technical details are sketchy the basics would appear to be very, well, TVR. Namely V8 power from a Cosworth-built engine, rear-wheel drive, manual transmission, a kerbweight less than a Toyota GT86 (1,100kg is suggested) and pricing to "pick up where the last range left off". Edgar, Murray and operations director John Chasey claim to be fully funded and hope to build 1,000-1,500 TVRs a year in a UK factory, location TBC.
Real thing or file under 'believe it when you see it'?
Given previous experience a degree of scepticism would be natural enough. Not least because those looking to spend upwards of £60K on a traditional hairy chested British sports car would, of course, seem very well served by the Jaguar F-Type. Bit more cash and more old-school tastes? An Aston Martin Vantage is still a very appealing prospect. Looking beyond these shores the Mercedes-AMG GT does a similar thing rather well and Maserati is looking to enter the front-engined GT market too. Different kind of cars but it's impossible to ignore Porsche's hold on this sector of the sports car market too.
But having met them in person Autocar's Steve Cropley paints Edgar and his team as die-hard TVR fans and owners, convinced that the desire for more back to basics, lightweight and hardcore cars the like of which TVR used to build hasn't gone away. And isn't currently served by any mainstream manufacturer.
Murray's involvement with the project certainly gives it some additional credibility, his much touted iStream production methods - originally intended for his T25 city car - seemingly adaptable enough to be used for hairy chested sports cars too. At heart it uses conventional steel tubes but the composite panels are bonded to it, creating a lightweight and rigid structure. A proprietary engine seems a bold move given memories of TVR's previous efforts on that score but Cosworth's involvement should reassure, Autocar speculating the unit may be based on the Ford Mustang's 5.0-litre lump with something between 450-500hp. And, yes, this time around we'll have ABS and traction control, though you'd expect the latter to be switchable.
Can Edgar, Murray and Chasey really pull it off? Over to you..."
Source: http://www.pistonheads.com/news/ph-britishcars/tvr-is-back-really/32281
Would not be the first false start, but Murray being involved does help lift credibility.
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- OriginalCheezIt
Change everything in front of the front tire, and damn, is that pretty.
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