Dream cars...

[That_Stevens_Guy]

Who doesn't love V8's just a pity they make no sense at all these days. I guess it doesn't matter if its your dream car.

R8's are nice, but if I wanted a practical supercar, I would get a 911

[Artful-dodgeR]

R8's are nice, but if I wanted a practical supercar, I would get a 911

...which 911 though

GT3? GT3RS? GT2? GT1!?

[inz]

Who said anything about practicality...

[Schnookie]

TVR's... Really?

They just remind me of overengineered british wank... They're ugly as all hell too... Guess that's why it's your dream car and not mine... hehe.

it doesn't 'remind' you of it -> it IS overengineered british wank, and ugly as hell, that's why I like them... I think..... they are different but amazingly thought out cars and the company's direction was driven by what the existing customers wanted rather than what marketing/desk jockeys wanted to provide.

Just a few things that Peter Wheeler made clear while he was around - Customers started taking his lightweight cars and dropping bigger engines in, he asked if they wanted them from the factory, so they teamed up with Rover etc in the years to come, didn't make huge profits, just better cars. The 'wedge' shape they used to have was ditched for curvier things after he found out there's more strength in curved panels for impacts. Despite the UK's requirements, did not offer ABS or Airbags as in the convertibles "in a rollover and airbag would put the drivers head into the danger zone', and ABS wasn't going to be effective for someone driving a TVR, it reduces braking distance.

I loved the stubborn logic behind it all -the story of them taking the two required chassis to the safety check - they loaded up the first chassis for crash testing, rumour was the people running the test started to laugh that it wouldn't pass. First impact test successful by a long shot. Wheeler made them load the same chassis for the second test which passed again.

Al Melling's involvement in developing one of the greatest engines on the planet for TVR just makes me wet in the pants too. He's an absolute nutcase but when it comes to engines, he is a god. Porsche is only just catching up now (i believe their 6 for the new RS is out to 4L output 125hp/L ?) and he's been developing F1 engines, bike engines for years, he's brilliant.

So probably more than the cars themselves, I like the history behind the company.

[Scarface.au]

TVR's... Really?

They just remind me of overengineered british wank... They're ugly as all hell too... Guess that's why it's your dream car and not mine... hehe.

it doesn't 'remind' you of it -> it IS overengineered british wank, and ugly as hell, that's why I like them... I think..... they are different but amazingly thought out cars and the company's direction was driven by what the existing customers wanted rather than what marketing/desk jockeys wanted to provide.

Just a few things that Peter Wheeler made clear while he was around - Customers started taking his lightweight cars and dropping bigger engines in, he asked if they wanted them from the factory, so they teamed up with Rover etc in the years to come, didn't make huge profits, just better cars. The 'wedge' shape they used to have was ditched for curvier things after he found out there's more strength in curved panels for impacts. Despite the UK's requirements, did not offer ABS or Airbags as in the convertibles "in a rollover and airbag would put the drivers head into the danger zone', and ABS wasn't going to be effective for someone driving a TVR, it reduces braking distance.

I loved the stubborn logic behind it all -the story of them taking the two required chassis to the safety check - they loaded up the first chassis for crash testing, rumour was the people running the test started to laugh that it wouldn't pass. First impact test successful by a long shot. Wheeler made them load the same chassis for the second test which passed again.

Al Melling's involvement in developing one of the greatest engines on the planet for TVR just makes me wet in the pants too. He's an absolute nutcase but when it comes to engines, he is a god. Porsche is only just catching up now (i believe their 6 for the new RS is out to 4L output 125hp/L ?) and he's been developing F1 engines, bike engines for years, he's brilliant.

So probably more than the cars themselves, I like the history behind the company.

I think you're onto something there;

I love the outrageous look of the Sagaris and a 4L I6 with 400bhp.. who could complain about that?! A falcon I6 of the same size struggles to make 270hp

[Mulder71]

There is a couple ,


Jaguar XKR and a Ferrari F430 .

[Mulder71]

TVR Tuscan

Tvr are apparently very **** to drive . Also TVR is owned by a Russian Banker Nikolai Alexandrovich Smolensky . So Not really british anyway .

[Brad]

22b

[daveske]

this would be mint, could get through traffic easily.


stuck with one of these for now, cept mine has sti rims

[may0]

TA22 Celica
13b rotary
Turbo
Purple
Stock inside

The build that the mrs and I are going to start in the next year or two

[Artful-dodgeR]

Congratulations + commiserations

Nothing more satisfying or more anger inducing than building car.

[Matty]

TVR's capture the essence of what driving should be. You have to fight for control of those things.

But mine is a GT2RS. How on earth is a 911 a practical super car over an R8? Actually how is a 911 practical at all? Unless it's the cayenne, which is basically a 911 4wd.

Anyway, Woo! 911's! One day my friend, one day.

[may0]

Congratulations + commiserations

Nothing more satisfying or more anger inducing than building car.

haha yeah I reckon!

Bought my Toyota Soarer unrego'd and un-roadworthy.. Was an uphill battle with that one.

[Kamma]

SL65 AMG Black or C63 AMG and BMW 3.0 CSL. I like teh German.

[inz]

E9 CSL

Big BBS meshies = sex.