TVR planning a comeback with U.S sourced V8 power

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Source: motorauthority.com

Goodwood's annual Festival of Speed is a sort of motorsports Mecca, drawing both human and mechanical heroes across time and continents for a weeklong salute to all things fast and four-wheeled. This year, it's also rumored to play host to the revival of TVR, the now-Russian-owned British marque that has hade some of the most bizarre, brutally fast cars to come off that quirky isle.

The info is teased by TVR itself, with a website being teased as "coming soon." Little in the way of solid details are known about the car itself, though a report from Pistonheads indicates that the car will use an American-sourced V-8 crate engine, from either Ford or GM. Power output is expected to be near 500 horsepower, which sounds more like a crate LS7 engine than anything to us.

It will be rear-drive, seat two, have the engine at the proper--err, front--end, and feature TVR's characteristically fendery, odd-canopied look.

The best news for U.S. gearheads is the rumor that the choice of American-sourced crate engines is predicated on a desire to sell the car here. An already-homologated engine would make the task of doing so a good deal cheaper and easier for TVR.

Whatever the new TVR looks like, or what it's powered by, expect to find out come July when the Goodwood Festival of Speed gets underway the 2-4 of the month.
 
Eh...I prefer TVR to build their own engines, but if they have to drop a boring ol' crate in it, they probably should.

Why not make it a Mopar Crate, though?
 
Here is some info from PistonHeads:

TVR is on the brink of an exciting relaunch with a brand new model boasting US-sourced V8 power and costing upwards of £70,000 when it finally hits the showrooms.
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Jim Prower
Eh...I prefer TVR to build their own engines
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Yes. This has worked well for them in the past.

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You will get occasionals, where a mix of supercars can burst into fire. However it does not mean, every other TVR will burst into fire.

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PistonHead's - Full Story

TVR is on the brink of an exciting relaunch with a brand new model boasting US-sourced V8 power and costing upwards of £70,000 when it finally hits the showrooms.

We're still trying to pin down all the facts, but what we've gleaned from various sources is that TVR - under its Russian owner Nikolai Smolenski - is currently planning to reveal the all-new machine 'within months', possibly at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in July although it could be even sooner.

We're not sure which engine will be nestled under the Goodwood car's bonnet, but we do expect the car to appear with a US sourced V8 'crate engine', so it's possible it could be from either Ford or Chevy. Either way, we hear the new car will maintain all the 'traditional TVR values', so expect something in the ballpark of 500bhp in a front engined, rear-drive, two-seater package with extrovert styling that's sure to be a major crowd-puller at Goodwood if the plan goes ahead.

While TVR models all latterly used bespoke engines, it is believed that Mr Smolenski's plan is to sell the new TVR in global markets including the US, hence the decision to opt for a 'crate' engine package developed by one of the US majors. As well as benefitting from tried and tested technology, the move will save TVR millions in development and homologation costs.

Although none of the news above has been officially confirmed, recent activity on the www.tvr.co.uk website and rumours on our very own TVR forums add weight to what we have learned.

According to a new TVR Motors Company Ltd statement on the tvr.co.uk homepage, a brand-new website is 'coming soon'. The current holding page has an e-mail address and telephone number for sales enquiries.

Meanwhile reports on our forum suggest a job load of TVR parts have been sent by Multipart to Germany, where Mr Smolenski has long been rumoured to be planning to restart production.

Forum reports also suggest several TVR parts suppliers have been served with 'cease and desist' notices by TVR Motors Company, which claims rights to be the UK's sole official parts supplier. Such a move which would seem to be a natural precursor to the brand's official relaunch, although we believe similar letters have been sent before.

Either way, we're all extremely fired up by the prospect of a TVR comeback here at PH towers.
 
Wow, it doesn't happen on every single TVR? really? :lol:
 
I have edited my previous post, to go into more detail.


My Final Thoughts:

If you do not maintain a car, then one risk you can get is fire.
 
It should be interesting to see what they can come up with. Their designs tend to be a little out there.

I wonder if it'll be based on an older model, or a completely new car.

Danny
No, however fire can, happen from time to time, in all Supercars.


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I don't know, how many people, caught this, but I found it.

Humorous.
 
That 500hp crate engine also sounds like Ford's new aluminum piece. It'll be interesting to see which route they take.
 
Three things...

SWEET that TVR is back!
DAMMIT that TVR won't use a TVR engine
OOOOH AWSOME that it might be the new Ford 5.0L V8. :D
 
So, TVR essentially has six different choices:

General Motors:
  • 6.2L LSA - Supercharged, 550 BHP ( CTS-V)
  • 7.0L LS7 - N/A, 505-525 BHP (Corvette Z06)

Ford:
  • 5.4L C54 - Supercharged, 500 BHP (GT500)
  • 5.0L R50 - N/A, 400+ BHP (FR500C)

Mopar:
  • 6.4L HEMI - N/A (EFI), 525 BHP (Crate Only)
  • 6.1L HEMI - N/A, 425 BHP (Challenger SRT-8, et. al)


The Mopar 392 HEMI would be a very interesting choice, but the Chevy LS7 is probably the safe bet. Although, I'd like to see that Ford Cammer (R50) get in something other than a Mustang...
 
I wouldn't be surprised if the 4V Ford GT version of the 5.4L Modular gets the nod. But I'm pretty sure that either the LS7 or the R50 will be the choice.
 
It's won't be a proper, modern-day TVR without a straight-six. :(
 
With them having a long history of using various Ford engines, i'd like to see them using a small block Ford. But they have in the past used Coventry Climax, BMC, Ford, Triumph and Rover engines too, so i guess a GM or Chrysler one wouldn't hurt.
 
Justin
I have a hunch it will be Ford based on TVR's history.
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Maybe, but TVR also once played with the idea of an Australian designed and built Holden 5.0L. Maybe they ditched it because the Rover V8 was smaller or easier to source in the UK or something.
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In 1988 TVR sourced a 5.0 litre Holden V8 through Tom Walkinshaw at Holden Special Vehicles. The engine was installed in the TVR White Elephant, a prototype car built for Peter Wheeler by John Ravenscroft. Whilst an interesting engineering and styling exercise, the Holden powered TVR White Elephant was later superseded by the Rover V8 powered Griffith prototype.
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Duffers917K
It's won't be a proper, modern-day TVR without a straight-six. :(
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TVR were still using a V8 as late as the early '00s, I don't see why a V8 is a problem. At first I was thinking the same thing, that TVR would lose its identity, but it's really no different to what they've been doing for decades.


All in all, I just hope it's not that huge 5.4L heavy son of a gun from Ford. New 5.0L sure no probs, I think a Hemi powered TVR sounds pretty cool, and an LSx means more money for GM, I like the sound of that. TVR makes lightweight cars, any US V8 in something light will be a complete rocketship.
 
It needs a Rover V8.
 
Duffers917K
It needs a Rover V8.
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You can't beat a Rover V8 for sound, but they just couldn't get it to meet modern emissions tests, which is one of the reasons they dropped it in the first place.
 
Shame they won't be built in Blackpool, I remember many years ago going with my Dad and Club Lotus to have a tour of the factory when they were making the Griffith and Chimera. Even back than it looked proper old school, a bunch of guys in dirty overalls welding piles of tubing together and loads of bare fiberglass bodys dumped in the yard, fantastic.

My all time favourite has to be the TVR made flat plane crank V8 Cerbera. The sound of that thing was phenomenal, like rolling thunder in the hills.

I hope they do start making them again and in the UK but that's unlikely, even the Nobel is outsourced to South Africa but is better for it.
 
I certainly do hope that it will be Cammer or similar from Ford. that would be ~515bhp from 5 liters..
 

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