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tuscanlad 2

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50 posts

205 months

Saturday 7th November 2009
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Why have they never put a Tuscan 11 S around that track especially a 4.3 FFF
it would embarres a fair few super cars and give a couple of Hyper cars a fright
the little runt would slang it though. I can only ever remember a Sagaris going round in a very respectable time.
Si

mikey d

30 posts

212 months

Saturday 7th November 2009
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Here here old chap , that clarkson and his team need to really have a lot more respect for tvr and why can't we see a tvr tribute on top gear and let the stig take all the tvr,s around the track and show most of them foriegn crap car manufacturers why we are proud to be british ........... Come on clarkson buy a tvr and join the dark side !!!

asrovak

397 posts

211 months

Saturday 7th November 2009
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Top Gear is a lot like America, lots of wide open spaces ...surrounded with teeth. it is funny tho

Edited by asrovak on Saturday 7th November 18:05

glow worm

7,220 posts

253 months

Saturday 7th November 2009
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This morning I watched May take the Tuscan 2 vert round Oulton again , it was on DAVE. Impressive... Jackie Stewart liked it and so did May.... and even ttty Clarkson and dwarf had to say " What a shame the factory has closed."

For anyone who hasn't see it ... I was going to post the u-tube link... but see BBC Worldwide have stopped it.

http://www.youtube.com/index?ytsession=x-6odxzmVU8...

BGB autosport

1,044 posts

213 months

Saturday 7th November 2009
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tuscanlad 2 said:
Why have they never put a Tuscan 11 S around that track especially a 4.3 FFF
it would embarres a fair few super cars and give a couple of Hyper cars a fright
the little runt would slang it though. I can only ever remember a Sagaris going round in a very respectable time.
Si
Why would they? Its no longer a manufactured car. They did a feature on the mk11 convertable with Jackie Stewart when it was first released, the sag, T350 and i seem to remember a Tuscan on there too.

Now if RG got on to them and said we have a brand new Tuscan that has all of the previous TVR "issues" fully sorted, how about doing a feature then they may do.

Its also worth noting that although they slag them off they only give whats the normal preception towards the brand, they dont say any thing thats not been said before. When they have had them on they actually generally rate them. Like the T350 review they did.

tuscanlad 2

Original Poster:

50 posts

205 months

Saturday 7th November 2009
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My point is they never put the best and fastest TVR model around the track.
The Tuscan 11 S was the best handling and quickest TVR ever produced . They only ever put a Mk 1 tuscan around the track, hardly representitive in mho. I know what these cars are capable of especially with a 4.5 lt engine in absolutly amazing.
The only stipulation I would make is that the track would have to be dry, if it was wet it might look a bit silly.
Si

Daston

6,145 posts

229 months

Saturday 7th November 2009
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They put the Mk2 around the track was the same episode with the Wisemann (however its spelt) not sure if it was an S although it did post a very quick time dispite the weather.

NCE 61

2,451 posts

307 months

Sunday 8th November 2009
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The Tuscan 2 was nearly a quick as the Sagaris 1.24.8 v 1.24.6, although it appared not to be an S model you can bet it had a blue printed engine & Ohlins suspension.

the jollyrodger

569 posts

204 months

Sunday 8th November 2009
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i know that hamster loved the t350 in his test drive,did 5th gear not do a test drive on the tuscan 2,they pitched it against a sagaris if i remember right although i dont remember if it was the s!bandit

TVR_owner

3,349 posts

217 months

Sunday 8th November 2009
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NCE 61 said:
The Tuscan 2 was nearly a quick as the Sagaris 1.24.8 v 1.24.6, although it appared not to be an S model you can bet it had a blue printed engine & Ohlins suspension.
It will need to have been a modified S to get that close. A standard 4.0 Tuscan would struggle to get within 2 or 3 seconds of a Sagaris on that circuit.

On the 4.3 FFF engine, I undrestand no such beast exists, nor can it be built.

Talksteer

5,532 posts

259 months

Sunday 8th November 2009
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I was surprised how slow the T350 went, given that in the various Autocar handing days the T350 managed to go quicker than a 911 GT3 its time around the top gear circuit was disappointing.

the jollyrodger

569 posts

204 months

Sunday 8th November 2009
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TVR_owner said:
NCE 61 said:
The Tuscan 2 was nearly a quick as the Sagaris 1.24.8 v 1.24.6, although it appared not to be an S model you can bet it had a blue printed engine & Ohlins suspension.
It will need to have been a modified S to get that close. A standard 4.0 Tuscan would struggle to get within 2 or 3 seconds of a Sagaris on that circuit.

On the 4.3 FFF engine, I undrestand no such beast exists, nor can it be built.
john,i hope you had better visability out of your car than we had,wan'nt so bad going down hill,but for the rest,i just hoped we made it around the cornerslaugh
looked like good racing though,from outside the car,laugh

so called

9,159 posts

235 months

Sunday 8th November 2009
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NCE 61 said:
....you can bet it had a blue printed engine.....
Sorry but what do you mean by "blue printed" ?

Daston

6,145 posts

229 months

Sunday 8th November 2009
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so called said:
NCE 61 said:
....you can bet it had a blue printed engine.....
Sorry but what do you mean by "blue printed" ?
I think "blue printed" is where every part is 100% balanced and exact ie the engine could not be any better.


so called

9,159 posts

235 months

Sunday 8th November 2009
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Daston said:
so called said:
NCE 61 said:
....you can bet it had a blue printed engine.....
Sorry but what do you mean by "blue printed" ?
I think "blue printed" is where every part is 100% balanced and exact ie the engine could not be any better.
Bugger, getting excited then...biggrin


so called

9,159 posts

235 months

Sunday 8th November 2009
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