I'm more than happy with the performance of my Sagaris. I honestly don't think I would ever need anything more performant for the public road.

However, I'd cordially point out that the Sagaris eclipses the Cerbera in performance, which kind of weakens your statement.

Great to see posts from you again christof after all this time! Thanks for your contributions.

This guy is a proper PHer, folks. And he's an old poster like me.

Out of interest Christoph - do you still own TVR- Deutschland GMBH?
In case the new owner wanted to export to the fatherland???

If the Sag does out drag the Cerb then it confirms the statement that each new era of Tiv was faster. However, I thought the Cerb was the spanner in my statement as it out dragged its factory equivalent Sag?

I agree that in reality you really don't need much more than 400bhp but imagine how the new owner will be considered by the media and many fans if his first car is put dragged by a near 20 year old car? I think he is under pressure in that regard.

I agree - time will tell - it must habe been disappointing to have punters lined up, get "development cars" with littlle support from the factory and then the whole TUEV issues-
I think however there is a market for cars like this - here and in Germany- a well priced individualist's car sub Hypercar with performance to match or outrun most mains stream spotrts cars - but at that type of money you want basic reliability and the ability to tailor the car to your needs - by all means switch off traction control if you don't want it, but have it...
the only downside on an Audi idea is that I thinh rwd means sports car (but a lot of potential punters will have fwd experiance mostly and ajust easier to awd), and Audi lost some of its vorsprung durch technik.... the new 2 liter and possible the coming 4 liter V8 from AMG would be machines, though- if one wants to go German - but also the Jaguar/Landrover engines would be worth looking at if it is affordable - I somehow do not so much want a yank engine (although I acknowledge history, tuneability and price....)- i still think a KERS would be great as would be a carbon tub... but that might not work sub 100k...
Cracking, great engines which might be affordable come from honda (2 litre VTEC for basic and 3.6 litre for performance model) might work, too
the future might be bright....

Serious question, for such a theoretical car, where would the engine sit?

I'd assume that it would be in exactly the same relative position as the "donor car"? So transversely inbetween the front wheels.

On a lighter car this would mean a worse front/rear weight distribution than the original car too. Plus it would remove the purpose of a long bonnet to sit the engine further back too....

From memory, with remap I think people have got the TTRS to do 0-100mph in 7.2 secs, so it is a very impressive setup, so imho Christof had a good point mentioning it in that respect (ignoring the packaging being just the wrong shape for a TVR type car (or any sports car!).

I'm not really up to date with my European Automotive Regulations so I won't even try to discuss that, but as someone who obviously knows his stuff about TVRs, can you honestly see cars being sold under the TVR banner with 5 pot Audi engines?

I have absolutely no doubt that they are very capable engines, but it isn't really a 'TVR' engine. If they are going down that route, I'd much rather see them using the BMW V8s or Mercedes V8s. At least they are still engines that keep to the TVR ethos and should pass the EEC laws.

In my eyes, TVRs are all about NA large capacity V8s/Straight 6s. I think TVR would lose that British muscle car image if it used anything less than 3000cc engines and started using turbos as standard.

I will say again though, who the hell knows what the new owner will do...?