TVR?

[JRS]

The Cerbera actually used their own (AJP V8, and Speed6) engines

You're quite right, thought it didn't sound correct after I'd posted it. The Cerbera was the first car to receive the AJP V8.

 

[Lashout_UK]

http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyId=21868

Smolenski confirmed the choice of 'Vette power in a recent interview: ""We looked at every engine available, including making our own, and decided that the Corvette was the most powerful off-the-shelf design going. Fitting it to our chassis allows us to meet all current regulations and is not too big a step," he told a reporter.

Told you so

 

[Hxc]

Targetting the UK Corvette price... so 50k?

And a hybrid? Alright Moleskins...

 

[Matt82]

oooh this is going to be good

im gonna haev a tvr or some sort one day

i want an AJP cerbera tbh

 

[shauncr91]

Agree with the comments on there though, with the way things are going all that's going to be British about it is the name, but it is certainly a step in the right direction with sourcing a new engine, should've done that years ago instead of sticking with the S6.

 

[Jonny69]

American engines, built in Germany, and a £70k+ price tag. Couldn't be further from the original TVR philosophy.

What, awkward looking kit cars with knackered V8's pulled out of dead Rover P5's?

I think crate engines can only be a good thing.TVR are well known for their lack of reliability and fair play for them for using their own engines, but it must have cost the company a fortune.

 

[Liquidfox]

oooh this is going to be good

im gonna haev a tvr or some sort one day

i want an AJP cerbera tbh

A friend owns one, brilliant fun The sheer noise can make a grown man giggle

 

[Zip]

So this is a British car owned by Russians with an American Engine then?

 

[UncleBensSauce]

Only thing I don't like is how they will be built abroad

Yeah cos the ones that were built here can only be decribed as fantasticly reliable and well put together.

 

[Hxc]

The likelyhood of it reaching production is still hilariously low as always, probably just moleskins shouting about things.

 

[Lashout_UK]

What, awkward looking kit cars with knackered V8's pulled out of dead Rover P5's?

I think crate engines can only be a good thing.TVR are well known for their lack of reliability and fair play for them for using their own engines, but it must have cost the company a fortune.

Especially given that if you're being pedantic enough you could effectively class the RV8 as an American engine as well, after all, it was one!

 

[IamMed]

Maybe? I'd expect sat-nav, air-con, a full compliment of air-bags and a complete ABS/ASR/ESP package though. Not like the Noble M15.

ABS/ASR/ESP would defeat the point of it being a TVR.

 

[ajstan]

You wouldn't get a brand new Aston for £70k.

I bet you could get a sygnet for that

And anyway the v8 vantage is very close to that price...

 

[icysniper]

So this is a British car owned by Russians with an American Engine then?

built in Germany

 

[p0ss3s3d]

TVR = Mad fast. Mad reliatbility. Mad looks and ofcourse...

MAD NOISE!!!



I'd like to see TVR back - even if it is Germericanitish. So long as sticks to the right vibe like the Sagaris' T350s etc.

 

[Begbie]

Its not a TVR anymore. But no doubt I will still like it!

 

[Housey]

Good mate of mine is already ahead of the curve. LS7 currently going into his Sagaris, 650bhp Mosler spec, proper serious.

 

[shauncr91]

I bet you could get a sygnet for that

And anyway the v8 vantage is very close to that price...

Even with absolute complete poverty spec you'd be pushing it tbh.

 

[DRZ]

Well, well! 7 years later (!) they've finally properly announced it...

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/pioneers/this-is-the-all-new-tvr-griffith-2017

£90,000. I've had a chuckle reading back through this thread at all the price discussion

 

[Yaayuh!]

400bhp-per-tonne



I'll have one in this colour please.

@Gibbo It's what you were hoping, apart from the price