Top motor, complete pile of shit as far as build quality goes tho






4.5litre version


Came in for a new screen and ended up taking about 4-5hrs Sodding fibreglass monocoque! It has "a-post" covers made out of VERY thin carbon fibre that were kindly bonded to both the screen and the inner a-posts, and then rivited to the inner a-posts for good measure Of course, being a hand made car, the screen was a completely different shape to the cars aperture, which helped

But fuck me, did it sound nice when fired up and blipping the throttle

Complete piece of shit tho

 

Looks nice I would love one

 

TVR's are horrible things but they look amazing and go amazing

 

they sound awesome

 

I wouldnt say no..

 

My mates just got burnt out!!
tabetha

 

how strange ive never heard of a tvr going up in flames before?



ahh thinking about it,, i lie,,, they ALL catch alight

 

Flamin' heck!

 

yeah what is it with tvr's and fires?!

i have to agree thoguh, sound amazing, go very well and look top notch. totally rubbish car though!

 

I remember the old Clarkson video where the 4.5 spanks everything

 

yeh i see one light up at a set of traffic lights outside work a few years back.... couldnt help but laugh

they sound the bollox tho

 

there owners must keep setting them on fire , becuase they get pi55ed off evey time they brake down

 

shouldnt you have fitted it outside?thats a hell of a fire risk in doors!

although they brake and catch light i have a fondness for them

 

There's this thing I have about TVR's, they're shit, in terms of quality. At everything else they are immense.

I would love one, anyday of the week, month or year.

 

thats what they said about the three door cossie!

 

[quote]I remember the old Clarkson video where the 4.5 spanks everything


Thought is was the 4.2 in the Clarkson video but could be wrong.

 

yeah, it was a 4.2 AJP!

well done

 

not a standard one though



danny@radesigns off here used to work in warranty and claims....
at the time, they used a race prepped one....

carl

 

Sneaky mofo's

What about the RS Focus V Escort Cosworth?

Top Gear didn't stage that I hope!

 

This was my bruv in laws on the second day he owned it,and it happened when I was driving it


Got his insurance money and went and bought another one that lasted four days and the crank snapped cracking the block and basically totalled the engine

Ł6000 later he had it back with a 4.5 re-built engine,lost heart and sold it for the same as bought it for

Was really looking forward to goin out in a Cerbera when he bought it,big disapointment,didn't rate either of them at all

 

Then Rusty's cossie capri spanked it IIRC

 

You're not wrong there, bloke I know had one years ago that had electrical problems which were made impossible to trace cos every fooking wire was black

It mysteriously went up in flames

 

i remember looking at one a while ago, the carbon screen covers were terrible, i thought it was a diy job

 

Fookin hell!

 

agree shonky build.always faults on them..

but that TUSCAN in the film SWORDFISH looks

 

my old man used to have a 4.2, it was a pretty quick car but im sure you can guess what happened to it as well He only had it for about 3 weeks!

 

didnt do so well against the skyline though

granted there was a slight power difference

 

I was recently looking at buying a Sagaris but the unreliability factor put me off big time!

 

so you bought a rs mk 1

 

Slight wiff of petrol then boom the fookin thing went up

The above pic was how it ended up by the time our local part time firemen had got there

 

Thank fook you got out! Good old British engineering!

I love TVR's (sound, shape, performance) nearly bought a Cerbera instead of my Escort cossie, but this has fookin put me off buying one for life!

 

Was lucky,only doin 20 mph
Bruv in law had been doin silly speeds in it 10 mins before,takin a lad that works for him out for a spin,could have been nasty

 

CosKev3

a flame job at 70 plus .i shudder to think imho..

but to pull over and watch your car burn..

so wrong

would not a powder fire extinguisher have helped the problem

http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=p...oogle&ct=title

i am really tempted to buy one as might help if the problem arises

 

Yeah me too! Sounds like a good investment should the Shizen hit the fan!

 

AJC

yes mate sound amazing

 

Bet that was a busy job.....

 

I used the one out the back of my Cosworth on it

Did help a little bit to start with,there was flames coming up out of the scuttle panel/rear of bonnet,so used extinguisher on them,put them out to start with,but then when the extinguisher was empty the flames caught hold again and that was the end of that

Will deffo have one in my Cosworth when its on road,but will be a bigger one than I used to have

 

I'd tow a fire truck behind me if I had a TVR!!!

 

id really love a TVR, but if i ever bought one itd be witha fooked engine (shouldnt be to hard to find) then id strip the fooker and rebuild it from the ground up with new electrics and a proper engine.

fucking BEAUTIFUL cars imo, just a shame about thier reputation for being so shit.

 

Like most people said, 4.5 Cerberas are one of my fave cars ever, but going by the problems, i could never afford to own one.

Ive had a car catch fire on me at 80mph.

Burnt to a crisp.

But i didnt.