The TVR Automotive Limited thread

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What is your Favourite TVR ?

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TVR was founded in 1947 by Trevor Wilkinsonwho gave his name to the make - TreVoR in Blackpool as Trevcar Motors. He built his first car in 1949 using a multi-tubular chassis, Morris 8 mechanicals and a Ford 100E engine to which he added his own design metal body shell. This car no longer exists. Soon Trevor realised that the bodyshell would be much more cost-effective it it were made in GRP and in 1953 started fitting RGS Atlanta bodies to his chassis before the first real production TVR with an in-house produced GRP body, the Grantura appeared in 1958.The years since have seen the company pass through tumultuous times and a variety of different models.

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Speed 12, simply because of how insane it is. No wonder it was deemed unsuitable for road use. 800 horsepower, 2200 pounds, FR layout, manual transmission, no aids whatsoever. I guess that's a recipe for disaster. And a really fast car, assuming it wouldn't just fry the rear tires. Which it probably would.
 
My favourite is definitely the Cerbera. It's such an achingly elegant car in the right colour scheme, but it can still look incredibly aggressive. Being a TVR, it's mental to drive and sounds like the apocalypse.

Oh, and here's a video of a Tuscan which is pretty true to life, soundwise. I can't find a really good Cerbera sound video, but it was available with this engine as well as the totally insane V8.
 
Connoissuer
The purple one is the 7/12 project right?
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Yeah that was the "original" Speed 12 as opposed to the later Cerbera Speed 12, and can be seen of course in Gran Turismo 2. The purple concept model in the pic can be seen in various states of disrepair in TVR's yard if you Google (which breaks my heart), but did also race in GT class (so presumably there was more than one), superceded by the more familiar model later on.

Although I love the Speed 12(s), and the Sagaris, I think my fave is the Typhon, which was to be the ultimate distillation of the Tuscan, that had been gradually getting quicker and more powerful anyway. Sadly of the 3 or so Typhons that were made, most if not all do not have the specs that were intended, though are still hair-raisingly fast cars.

My next fave (and not listed here) is the original 1960s Griffith 400, which was a Grantura with a Ford 289 V8 shoehorned into it. As it weighed about as much as a leaf, it was a seriously fast car and did well on the track, though thankfully with hazy homologation rules there were and are a few road-going ones too :)
 
JoaoSilva
why was the poll closed down? i'd like to vote for the Sagaris.
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Thanks for the bump, because I'm now wondering why there is a pic of what appears to be another road-registered Speed 12 a few posts up :eek:
 
Guess most will vote for the Speed 12 as it's well known and has crazy stats, but I can't get excited about them given they only built 1 or 2 and it never actually did anything.

I remember going to Donnington in '89 or '90, and one of the races was The Tuscan Challenge. Those things were completely insane... later ones had 450bhp and weighed 850kg.... I think Autocar tested one at 6.9s 0-100 mph :crazy:

Airfilters sticking through the bonnet (and reports that they often chucked neat fuel on to the windscreen), crazy handling with massive oversteer at any speed.

As for the road cars... my best mate had a 280 when we were in our late teens and I've always liked the Sagaris, but my heart would go with the Cerbera.
 

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