RE: An Electric TVR From Holland? For Sure...

[UKTopGun]

johno_VR6 said:

Not a fan of that.

I graduated from Coventry this year, here is a TVR my friend created. Sure he won't mind me sticking this up, as I personally think its stunning.

Looks great (better than the electric one, however all electric cars seem to have to be designed more ugly and petrol engined cars for some reason!) but it is far less original, does just look like a Speed 12 and a Sagaris stuck together.

[Chris71]

Jag-D said:

johno_VR6 said:

Not a fan of that.

I graduated from Coventry this year, here is a TVR my friend created. Sure he won't mind me sticking this up, as I personally think its stunning.

Yes yes yes

give it a nice handlin chassis and a whacking great tuned crate V8 and jobs a sausage

+1

Like the love child of a Speed 12 and an Alfa Romeo 8C. Very nice.

Have to say I think the idea of a fuel cell performance car is hillarious at the moment. It may well happen some day, but we're a long way off at the moment.

[ceriw]

skenergysolution said:

johno_VR6 said:

Not a fan of that.

I graduated from Coventry this year, here is a TVR my friend created. Sure he won't mind me sticking this up, as I personally think its stunning.

That would be one sexy looking TVR, very close in terms of design to the Sagaris

Asian eyes rear view mirrors. Neat touch. TVR exporting there too?, good show.

[900T-R]

lionrampant said:

If a brand like TVR were to ever survive (nay rise from the dead) the current Carbon Pogrom, cars like these are what will ensure it.

Nah, the future for electric propulsion is sketchy at best for bread and butter transport (to put it bluntly, our economies couldn't bear the associated cost, not by a rather significant margin - the system cost for the most advanced liquid fuel system being 500 euros or so while a battety pack big enough to propel a proper car for 200 km or so will hover around the 15,000 euro mark for most of the 2020s - and all that for a relatively marginal improvement on overall efficiency on the current grid mix of sustainable and non-sustaiable electric energy); for a niche vehicle that will cover relatively low mileages - it'd be absolutely bonkers, especially in the light of system cost for converting to flex-fuel (fossil fuels and alcohols that can be produced from waste) operation are just about nil.

TVRs are about celebrating the aural qualities of the internal combustion engine as much as anything else - take that away and you'd have a Lotus instead.

And after all, although our streets and farms don't see workhorses anymore, we still have racehorses and show horses, and will have them indefinitely. There's no indication at all things won't be the same with the sort of cars we revere.

[900T-R]

Chris71 said:

Jag-D said:

johno_VR6 said:

Not a fan of that.

I graduated from Coventry this year, here is a TVR my friend created. Sure he won't mind me sticking this up, as I personally think its stunning.

Yes yes yes

give it a nice handlin chassis and a whacking great tuned crate V8 and jobs a sausage

+1

Like the love child of a Speed 12 and an Alfa Romeo 8C. Very nice.

This is what I'd see the T350/Sagaris line evolve into. It has the leanness and sparsity of volume of those cars combined with the outrageous, organic curves the marque had become famous for since the Griffith.

One for Plasticman to turn into reality?

[JumpinJack]

Quote: ... Still, stick a big V8 or straight six in it and you could have quite a car...

Think that says it all right there

[P7ULG]

TVR are now taking deposits for it, first deliveries will be 2015 ish and final cost will be £120K ish.

Please Note: Specifications, name and cost will probably change !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ph1l5]

900T-R said:

Chris71 said:

Jag-D said:

johno_VR6 said:

Not a fan of that.

I graduated from Coventry this year, here is a TVR my friend created. Sure he won't mind me sticking this up, as I personally think its stunning.

Yes yes yes

give it a nice handlin chassis and a whacking great tuned crate V8 and jobs a sausage

+1

Like the love child of a Speed 12 and an Alfa Romeo 8C. Very nice.

This is what I'd see the T350/Sagaris line evolve into. It has the leanness and sparsity of volume of those cars combined with the outrageous, organic curves the marque had become famous for since the Griffith.

One for Plasticman to turn into reality?

Love it. I like the blue one but this gets my vote.

[flyingdutchie]

Good to see that the TVR name is still inspiring for the students. Although I'am dutch and not using space cakes, the UK's study is looking very good and the car is recognisable as a TVR.

They should give it the name of a greek goddess of raw sex, beer and blown fuses!!

Does this goddess exist?

[dugt]

johno_VR6 said:

Not a fan of that.

I graduated from Coventry this year, here is a TVR my friend created. Sure he won't mind me sticking this up, as I personally think its stunning.

do you have anymore pictures? those wheels are dare i say it, better than sex
the whole car just looks right, with nothing that i would change

doug

[mybrainhurts]

silly chap said:

Looks wonderful and very forward looking,

hope he does well.

Silly chap....

[Fetchez la vache]

johno_VR6 said:

Not a fan of that.

I graduated from Coventry this year, here is a TVR my friend created. Sure he won't mind me sticking this up, as I personally think its stunning.

Have thought about this before... can't see why PH have to pull strange sketches from the ether & all round the world when we have a good automotive design course in the far flung shores of Cov that PH could plunder with Covs permission every few months. I'm sure it would give the course a good bit of publicity, though gawd knows about any copyright issues.

Worth a punt, Shirly? Especially if they look anything like that one!

[crackedfinger]

dugt said:

johno_VR6 said:

Not a fan of that.

I graduated from Coventry this year, here is a TVR my friend created. Sure he won't mind me sticking this up, as I personally think its stunning.

do you have anymore pictures? those wheels are dare i say it, better than sex
the whole car just looks right, with nothing that i would change

doug

Might need a few vents to cool that engine bay though

[Stevie Mojo]

johno_VR6 said:

Not a fan of that.

I graduated from Coventry this year, here is a TVR my friend created. Sure he won't mind me sticking this up, as I personally think its stunning.

Give me one good reason why we don't have a British car company building cars that look like that with simple spaceframe chassis' and American V8s!

[aquatix]

+1

Just have one perfectly balanced, rigid spaceframe chassis design, one stonking engine / gearbox / axle combo (to keep costs to a minimum) but 3 fibreglass body designs - to cater for coupe, targa top and convertible. Can't see why that would not be feasible even in todays economic climate ...

[nadirv8]

Whiplash said:

The alarm and clock will drain all the batteries.

Very true, although they could load it with a S6 to recharge the batts.

[dazsmith69]

the frotn looks like a whale

[JanvanderHoek]

Stevie Mojo said:

johno_VR6 said:

Not a fan of that.

I graduated from Coventry this year, here is a TVR my friend created. Sure he won't mind me sticking this up, as I personally think its stunning.

Give me one good reason why we don't have a British car company building cars that look like that with simple spaceframe chassis' and American V8s!

One good reason? It's called Smolenski, isn't it?

[johno_VR6]

dugt said:

do you have anymore pictures? those wheels are dare i say it, better than sex
the whole car just looks right, with nothing that i would change

doug

I'll see what I can do, have an album full of all the projects.

Not sure if Marks on here anyway, will let him know about this thread and see if he'll sign up...

Fetchez la vache said:

Have thought about this before... can't see why PH have to pull strange sketches from the ether & all round the world when we have a good automotive design course in the far flung shores of Cov that PH could plunder with Covs permission every few months. I'm sure it would give the course a good bit of publicity, though gawd knows about any copyright issues.

Worth a punt, Shirly? Especially if they look anything like that one!

If I remember correctly, everything that is created whilst in the University, is the property of the University. However, I may have completely made that up.

There are enough design websites out there that young budding designers sign upto to push their portfolios, sure a little help from PH wouldn't go amiss...

[XitUp]

Why is a students doodle news?

lionrampant said:

If a brand like TVR were to ever survive (nay rise from the dead) the current Carbon Pogrom, cars like these are what will ensure it.

It also gives two fingers to the part of the anti-speed lobby that is now using carbon emissions as an argument to lower limits.

Apart from the hydrogen bit. Total scam.