What a GT car, no wait, WHAT A CAR!
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Just thought I'd post up to say that I'm having a love affair with the Chim.
It's become the daily drive, and it copes so well with absolutely everything that I ask it to do. Doesn't matter if they are short journeys, lots of running around, to far away client meetings, it absolutely laps up being used.
It feels like it is almost human. On very cold mornings the tickover can be lumpy for the first couple of miles, then once warm it's a smooth as silk. Just needs waking up. Not like the Porsche, you turn it on and it's on, the Chim needs to wake up a bit first.
Long journeys are a pleasure, so comfortable what with the transmission tunnel to rest your arm on etc. The roof does let in a lot of noise, but I can live with that.
I love the fact that on a long motorway drive it will behave impeccably, yet as soon as we are onto the twisties it turns into a full on sensory attacking maniac.
This was, without a doubt the best £4,800 I have ever spent, so pleased with the car, and peoples reception to it, it seems the world loves to see TVR's on the road.
I'll stop gushing now.
It's become the daily drive, and it copes so well with absolutely everything that I ask it to do. Doesn't matter if they are short journeys, lots of running around, to far away client meetings, it absolutely laps up being used.
It feels like it is almost human. On very cold mornings the tickover can be lumpy for the first couple of miles, then once warm it's a smooth as silk. Just needs waking up. Not like the Porsche, you turn it on and it's on, the Chim needs to wake up a bit first.
Long journeys are a pleasure, so comfortable what with the transmission tunnel to rest your arm on etc. The roof does let in a lot of noise, but I can live with that.
I love the fact that on a long motorway drive it will behave impeccably, yet as soon as we are onto the twisties it turns into a full on sensory attacking maniac.
This was, without a doubt the best £4,800 I have ever spent, so pleased with the car, and peoples reception to it, it seems the world loves to see TVR's on the road.
I'll stop gushing now.
I've had plenty of people sitting just behind me at dual carriageway lights waiting to hear it pull away, just generally lots of pleasent comments, people wanting to ask about it. As some of you have touched on, it's probably the britishness that makes people appreciate it, BRG helps too I think, just looks right, BRG, cream leather and walnut.
I know Jeremy Clarkson quipped that saying a car as hand built in England, is just another way of saying bits will fall off it, but I love it.
Very luckily for me though I bought the car as a CAT D, hence the very low price, but the car is impeccable, needs nothing, which is what I was after ideally. I have to be honest, and I'm sure it will com back to bite me at some point, but this is nothing like I imagined TVR ownership to be like. It's been as plug and play as every other car I've had.
That said, I drove the 911 yesterday, first time in probably 3 weeks, and it is so much easier to drive fast. The TVR is pure theatre, it's an event to drive. Technically the 911 beats it on everything, toys, luxury, performance blah blah blah, but the TVR just has something so raw and brutal about it that I cant stay away from it.
Keen to get to some meets and experience other TVR's.
I know Jeremy Clarkson quipped that saying a car as hand built in England, is just another way of saying bits will fall off it, but I love it.
Very luckily for me though I bought the car as a CAT D, hence the very low price, but the car is impeccable, needs nothing, which is what I was after ideally. I have to be honest, and I'm sure it will com back to bite me at some point, but this is nothing like I imagined TVR ownership to be like. It's been as plug and play as every other car I've had.
That said, I drove the 911 yesterday, first time in probably 3 weeks, and it is so much easier to drive fast. The TVR is pure theatre, it's an event to drive. Technically the 911 beats it on everything, toys, luxury, performance blah blah blah, but the TVR just has something so raw and brutal about it that I cant stay away from it.
Keen to get to some meets and experience other TVR's.
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