£12,000 to spend Tvr chimera v 911

[TVRJAS]

JasandJules,

We all know you can't go wrong with StarmistBLUE



Click here if you want some noisehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHnSX2Az5gE

Edited by TVRJAS on Wednesday 17th September 22:32

[Daniel1]

I'd love a TVR chimaera for a summer weekend car. I wouldn't really care what engine it had in it as I'd buy solely on condition first, colour second

If I'm being totally honest, even the 4.0 has it's advantages. My dad had a 4.0 (but he rolled it, so recommend a roll bar as the wind screen has no roll over strength ) and found that it had plenty of oomph for overtaking yet didn't have so much power that you found yourself scared to use it. He made the comparison to having the 1.2 rather than the GTI - you could thrash the pants of it more of the time and still find yourself being relatively sensible speed wise.

Personally I'd be after that really bright yellow they did

[TVRJAS]

Daniel1 said:

Personally I'd be after that really bright yellow they did

It was the one color I dismissed when I was in the market. But since then they have grown on me and wouldn't dismiss again. They seem to hide the stone chips quite well,opposed to Starmist Blue

EDITED

PS I presume your Dad was ok

Edited by TVRJAS on Wednesday 17th September 22:43

[Daniel1]

TVRJAS said:

PS I presume your Dad was ok

Edited by TVRJAS on Wednesday 17th September 22:43

He is now, 12 years later! Dislocated his shoulder to get out of the seatbelt, scrapped his face along the Tarmac, left with a damaged eyelid and "tattooing" on his face, luckily corrected by bupa (not NHS) plastic surgery. He officially died twice in ER - but is now fully recovered. Despite everything, he still says it was his favourite car he's ever owned and was sad to see it go.

I've got a picture of the flattened car somewhere, I'll upload it tomorrow when I'm on the PC. Shame for the car, not because I turned 21 the next day and my birthday present was to be insured on it, but because it was in a totally unique colour - a sort of salmon pearlised pink, only one that left the factory in that colour and it was gorgeous.

He hit a broken drain cover that was so bad it broke the alloy wheel, caused instant tyre deflation, that threw the car left into a bank, then sideways, then onto its roof. To give you an idea of how much the car flattened - the steering wheel was pushed through the windscreen!

Therefore my only recommendation to both current and perspective owners alike is to get some sort of roll bar fitted IMMEDIATELY as the windscreen has ZERO structural support in the event of a roll over.

[TVRJAS]

Daniel1 said:

That's one hell of a post Daniel1 Thanks for writing.

Your chances are narrowed down when rolling any convertible,but I think the words out there by now that without any safety features in the TVR range you're pretty much fooked if this happens.

It may not sound like it.... But I think you and your Dad were pretty lucky,you being that Dad is still around Amen.

[900T-R]

Daniel1 said:

Therefore my only recommendation to both current and perspective owners alike is to get some sort of roll bar fitted IMMEDIATELY as the windscreen has ZERO structural support in the event of a roll over.

OTOH most rollbars I've seen on Chims and Griffs are effing lethal in a side impact if you're not wearing a helmet...

[rigga]

900T-R said:

OTOH most rollbars I've seen on Chims and Griffs are effing lethal in a side impact if you're not wearing a helmet...

Absolutely this, I wouldn't rush to fit one to my griff, a rollover is far less likely to happen than a decent road shunt from another vehicle, and you head hitting a large metal bar .....

[Jasandjules]

Realistically there is nothing that beats just driving both of them and deciding which you prefer.

To my mind, if you don't want the TVR within about 5 seconds of starting her up (and listening to the rumble) then get the Porsche....

[blade7]

TA14 said:

blade7 said:

edward1 said:

When I bought my first TVR (a wedge ) I test drove a 944 turbo. On paper performance was similar and the porker felt alot more planted. But sitting in the porsche felt no more special than my company vectra,

So you sat in a 944 turbo sports seat, looked forward over the front flared wheel arches and in the mirrors at the flared rear arches and thought it compared to your Vectra I like TVR's, still think about buying one occasionally, but I'm not blind to their faults.

I think that you sum up the problem with the 944 interior nicely there - you're interior description consists of a description of the exterior.

The sports seat he sat in wasn't part of the interior ?