Which TVR?

Maz · 9 Sep 2007 at 15:28

I'm getting rid of my Alpina,

I'm thinking a good replacement will be a TVR of some description!

Which one though?

Tuscan, T350 or Tamora?

I'm thinking T350 at the moment but I don't know a great deal about these things.

What should I look out for? (On top of usual things)

Scottland · 9 Sep 2007 at 15:30

Sagaris

Maz · 9 Sep 2007 at 15:33

Scottland said:
Sagaris

Unfortunately my budget does not quite cover the cost of the Sagaris!

jellybeard999 · 9 Sep 2007 at 15:35

Don't mean to sound patronising, but have you properly reasearched the costs of servicing these etc ?

They have ferrari like performance, but with running costs to match. Big step up from a tweaked 3 series thats all. Big step up from an M3 I'd imagine even.

Maz · 9 Sep 2007 at 15:38

jellybeard999 said:
Don't mean to sound patronising, but have you properly reasearched the costs of servicing these etc ?

They have ferrari like performance, but with running costs to match. Big step up from a tweaked 3 series thats all. Big step up from an M3 I'd imagine even.

Don't sound patronising then, I do about 3000 miles a year in my second car and I'll only be keeping it for 6 months max!

It would be gone long before it was due a service!

Scottland · 9 Sep 2007 at 15:40

Maz said:
It would be gone long before it was due a service!

It's not the servicing, its the constant blowing up

What's your budget? It'd try and get a Tuscan S I think.

Maz · 9 Sep 2007 at 15:42

Scottland said:
It's not the servicing, its the constant blowing up

What's your budget? It'd try and get a Tuscan S I think.

I'd like change from £22k

Docaroo · 9 Sep 2007 at 16:06

with all due respect why are you getting it for only 6 months??

Maz · 9 Sep 2007 at 16:07

Docaroo said:
with all due respect why are you getting it for only 6 months??

I get bored of cars very quickly.

Zuma · 9 Sep 2007 at 16:15

those later tvr's had very unreliable engines. if you get 20k between rebuilds then you are lucky. and not many places will do engine rebuilds on them either.

jellybeard999 · 9 Sep 2007 at 16:25

Maz said:
Don't sound patronising then, I do about 3000 miles a year in my second car and I'll only be keeping it for 6 months max!

It would be gone long before it was due a service!

Wouldn't a more suitable reply have been:

"Yes, I have looked into it, and can comfortably afford to run it" :confused:

Its not as though we have a shortage of "I'm 17, learning to drive, and I've been looking at BMW M3s" no is it ?

:rolleyes:

I don't know your situation, so no need to be an ars* about it

Azagoth · 9 Sep 2007 at 16:31

You might be able to pick up a 4.5 Cerbera 'Red Rose' for that money! My all time favourite TVR, bar the Speed 12 that is.

Maz · 9 Sep 2007 at 16:40

jellybeard999 said:
Wouldn't a more suitable reply have been:

"Yes, I have looked into it, and can comfortably afford to run it"

Its not as though we have a shortage of "I'm 17, learning to drive, and I've been looking at BMW M3s" no is it ?

I don't know your situation, so no need to be an ars* about it

Sorry mate been having a bad day, hence why I want to change my car

TomO · 9 Sep 2007 at 16:42

Maz said:
I'll only be keeping it for 6 months max!

so that will about 2 months on the road then!

/\/\j17 · 10 Sep 2007 at 14:29

Zuma said:
those later tvr's had very unreliable engines. if you get 20k between rebuilds then you are lucky. and not many places will do engine rebuilds on them either.

And following on from an irrelevant and miss-informed response (all the duff engines have been replaced by now and later stuff off the line hasn't seen unexpected failure numbers - rebuild cycles are well over 20k but much lower than a Ford Mondeo as it's a race engine design)....

22k will get you in to '01/'02 Tuscan territory or '03 T350C land.

Between the two the Tuscan is more track focused than the T350 though there isn't a great deal in it.

Try asking in the TVR forums over on www.pistonheads.com or the TVR Car Club.

Manni · 10 Sep 2007 at 15:45

I was looking into buying a TVR about 18months ago. Decided on buying a buy-to-let property instead! I’ve driven the Tuscan, Tuscan S Mk2 and T350. Out of the three I preferred the T350. Was the best looking of the bunch in my opinion and it felt more ‘planted’ though it wasn’t as fast in a straight line as the other two…

The engines do go ‘bang’, and I have read some horror stories, but I’ve also read loads about people that are very happy with their cars. And I’ve read that post-2004 engines are more reliable than pre-2004 engines, though I don’t know if that’s true…

Find a TVR dealership, book a test drive, and you will be smitten. In my opinion they are amazing cars…

Abraham · 10 Sep 2007 at 20:17

Scottland said:
Sagaris

you've answered my potential thread to find out what that was called
someone round the corner has one, parked on the road almost all the time, has the amusing side affect that you can tell whenever it's in having work done because they have a different tvr parked there while it is (and it's a lot) absolutely stunning looking car though

233 · 10 Sep 2007 at 20:23

"sagaris"

dribble

Vegeta · 10 Sep 2007 at 20:31

Tuscan or T350 son!

Maz · 10 Sep 2007 at 20:37

Vegeta said:
Tuscan or T350 son!

Only because you want a shot.