Will Mr. Wheeler consider the new MG ZT engine's

[chimhunter]

Hmmmm T350C V8 . Lovely.

[RichardR]

At the risk of repeating myself...

RichardR said:

Land Rover are selling off the Rover/Buick V8 production line, so maybe TVR should snap it up and start using the glorious engine again!

[Podie]

RichardR said:

At the risk of repeating myself... RichardR said: Land Rover are selling off the Rover/Buick V8 production line, so maybe TVR should snap it up and start using the glorious engine again!

hmm... sense of deja vu going on here...

[Podie]

Pete hit the nail on the head here IMHO... "perceived unreliability"

GreenV8S said:

If there's one thing that stands in the way of success for TVR, its got to be the perceived unreliability of their new engine range. IMO they need to fix this, or die.

[marki]

plfrench said:

Why do you think that TVR need to use someone else's engine? They have just spent the last 7 or 8 years improving their own engines, starting with the AJP V8 in the Cerbera. John Ravenscroft (the engine guy) has done some amazing work with those engines. They are full of character and rev smoothly and freely... Very much suiting the nature of the TVR. If it is purley power that you are thinking of, then what about the speed 12 engine... 880bhp I believe and that was naturally aspirated!!! Paul.

Because they keep going BANG

and pleassseeee dont quote the speed 12 that was a 1 off race car

[jsr]

I was in the US last month and noticed their car adverts on tv. Pretty much all the cars had at least 7 years / 70,000 mile engine and drivetrain warrenties, some even offering 10 yr / 100,000 mile ones.

Imagine a warrenty like that for your TVR...

...in fact imagine that for any car sold in the UK - we get ripped off over here.

[RichardR]

Podie said:

RichardR said: At the risk of repeating myself... RichardR said: Land Rover are selling off the Rover/Buick V8 production line, so maybe TVR should snap it up and start using the glorious engine again! hmm... sense of deja vu going on here...

I'm sure you've said that before!

[mrmaggit]

I want an engine in a sports car that goes wwooooooooommmmmmmbbbbbbaaahhhhhhhhhhh.

That engine is a V8.

maggit

[anonymous-user]

Agreed, not wishing to annoy Speed 6 owners, but my Spitfire 1500 with Sports Pipes doesn't sound a million miles away from them.

The V8 is what attracted me to TVR's, anything else under the bonnet seems to lose a bit of the character.

I think TVR would be mad to just rely on the Speed 6 as their only engine.

However much I love the Tuscan and T350, I would not buy one as they sound like a load of nuts and bolts in a washing machine at idle.

Even the AJPV8 doesn't sound quite as good as the Rover lump.

That's just IMHO though.

Oh and there is the small problem that I couldn't afford one

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