TVR Speed Eight?
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Was it ever made?
I have a brochure dated 1990
[quote=TVR] The TVR Speed Eight is a first for TVR and also the automotive industry for many years.
The Speed Eight is a 2+2 Convertible high performance production sportscar that is designed as such, rather than a converted sporting saloon. Like of which has not been seen since the early 70's. It will also be the first 2+2 convertible TVR have ever produced.
The Speed Eight features a 4 seat, 2 door convertible bodylaid by hand in GRP, enclosing a jig formed polyester coated tubular space frame chassis.
The fully independant suspension comprises unequal length wishbonesat the front and double wishbone utilizing the drive shafts as the upper link at the rear, all sprung by coil over damper systems.
The interior is hand tailored to a customers requirements in the colour of their choice including over 20 leather options. A further 30 paint colours are available including standard, metallic, mica and pearlescent finisheds. But should this be not enough TVR has over 10000 colours at their disposla, so even the most obsure colour request can be entertained.
Powering this rapid sportscar is a choice of two TVR Power all alloy V8 engines, one a 240bhp 3.9ltr the other 286bhp 4.3ltr, both capable of taking the Speed Eight to speeds , interms, most of us can only aspire to. All accomplished effortlessly and without fuss, but beneath the Speed Eights sleek exterior package provides handling to match its performance.
Performance to be announced upon lauch[/quote]
Now I dont know that much about TVR, but know plenty about cars, but I've never heard of this one... rare find or old history everyone knows about?
Brochure also includes first news of the Griffith at the 1990 NEC Motor show
I have a brochure dated 1990
[quote=TVR] The TVR Speed Eight is a first for TVR and also the automotive industry for many years.
The Speed Eight is a 2+2 Convertible high performance production sportscar that is designed as such, rather than a converted sporting saloon. Like of which has not been seen since the early 70's. It will also be the first 2+2 convertible TVR have ever produced.
The Speed Eight features a 4 seat, 2 door convertible bodylaid by hand in GRP, enclosing a jig formed polyester coated tubular space frame chassis.
The fully independant suspension comprises unequal length wishbonesat the front and double wishbone utilizing the drive shafts as the upper link at the rear, all sprung by coil over damper systems.
The interior is hand tailored to a customers requirements in the colour of their choice including over 20 leather options. A further 30 paint colours are available including standard, metallic, mica and pearlescent finisheds. But should this be not enough TVR has over 10000 colours at their disposla, so even the most obsure colour request can be entertained.
Powering this rapid sportscar is a choice of two TVR Power all alloy V8 engines, one a 240bhp 3.9ltr the other 286bhp 4.3ltr, both capable of taking the Speed Eight to speeds , interms, most of us can only aspire to. All accomplished effortlessly and without fuss, but beneath the Speed Eights sleek exterior package provides handling to match its performance.
Performance to be announced upon lauch[/quote]
Now I dont know that much about TVR, but know plenty about cars, but I've never heard of this one... rare find or old history everyone knows about?
Brochure also includes first news of the Griffith at the 1990 NEC Motor show
The TVR speed eight of 1989 was a two seater intended as a replacment for the long running 280/350/390 convertible.
In 1990 at the NEC the speed eight appeared as a 2+2 with a longer wheelbase, but as the Griffith stole the show TVR quietly dropped the speed eight.
Think this is it
BB
In 1990 at the NEC the speed eight appeared as a 2+2 with a longer wheelbase, but as the Griffith stole the show TVR quietly dropped the speed eight.
Think this is it
BB
MR BHP said:
I believe back then, the Rover V8 was the engine to go in the cerbies, but before this went into production they went over to the flat-v8 AJP... but some believe there were a handful with RV8's in them... wether they went out with the same plant or got shifted to an AJP, god knows...
Nice find though... can you scan the brochure are wack it up on here?
Your dates are miles out Ash. The Cerbera was not even conceived in 89/90 (nor was the Chimaera for that matter). The Speed Eight was a stillborn model. Those who placed deposits on them (a friend of mine did) were offered Griffs instead a couple of years later. The Griff got suspended from production pending installation of the AJP8 - the idea being to distance the loony Griff from the [by then] similarly engined Chimaeras (both models had 4.0 and 4.3 options). A TVR engineer told me why the AJP8 didn't go in the Griff. TVR tried it but "...it just went round in circles". Having 'bigged up' the forthcoming "AJP8 uber-Griff", the Griff 500 was what came out instead with the AJP8 held over for the longer-wheelbase coupe: the Cerbera. No Cerberas were sold with RV8s in them - AFAIK TVR never put the RV8 in one
The lower picture is of the 1988 Speed 8 which had Audi rear lamps. I identified them on a visit to the factory then and Peter promptly changed them! Revisions were also made to the front and rear bodywork to made the car curvier. It was resprayed metaliic black and shown in 1990. By 1993, it was chopped up and put in the skip.
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