frog

By proper cars, I mean TVR... No nonsense, more power than grip, no nanny safety nets, grips you by the short and curlies and gives you the ride of your life

TVR has been relaunched with Sagaris 2
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/t...0Lives%20Again

garyc

As a Cerbera owners im delighted to see the marque make a come back!!

Magnex20011

Proper cars, what with glue hanging off the interior and a body made by some hung over guy in a shoe factory out of sticky paper and resin? lol

frog

Depends what you look for in a car, I can honestly say that my 5L chimaera was a hoot to drive everywhere and one of the few cars that was constantly threatening to bite - I was living when driving it.
Each to their own

frog

I've never missed a car like I miss the chim.

garyc

LOL, apart from that they aint too bad..........still youve got to admire a british built car with over 300bhp per tonne..........even if they do fall apart!

rst in breaking

iTrader: (2)

would love a tvr one day, fairly dear to buy with expensive insurance though

frog

I did 10-12,000 miles per year in the Chim and it's only ever been recovered once for a throttle bracket bolt falling off.
I'd say that's more reliabile than many of the fords that grace these pages if I am not mistaken.

frog

Only in the first year during which you have to prove you're not going to wrap it round a tree all by yourself After that, it's not much worse than a cossie or similar power car

garyc

My TVR is cheaper to insure than my cossie, its the running costs that can be painfull on the TVR, still they are not as unreliable as people make out.

tabetha

They are shockingly badly made, they suffer terrible electrical problems, they suffer terribly from a shit ecu/software as std causing shunting on the V8, they don't put out the power TVR claim, by a long way, they rust to bits underneath, apart from that not too bad.
Installed a loom in one last year, checking the brand new loom it had 3 breaks in it, 2 plugs were missing as well, good QA there, it was binned in favour of a proper 44 loom, at less than 1/2 the price of the genuine.
tabetha

frog

They have their flaws, etc... but no other road car has made me tingle all over while driving it...

Turbocabbie

was it on fire at the time you felt that tingle

TurboShed

No the driver was the earth lead.