TVR: 1 Ferrari: Nil

[GI Jnr]

Went out with my brother for a PR event today: Me in the F355, him in his Tuscan (4.0, Nitrons, 19" wheels and CCC cans)

Empty dual carriageway, third gear, side by side, Johnny Large Potatoes...

It's official: The Tuscan destroyed the Fezza in every gear. It wasn't even close...

Then he proceeded to make me piss myself by fishtailing it up the road at a set of traffic lights. (The Fezza can't spin the wheels without sidestepping the clutch, which I refuse to do...)

He described the Fezza as being "all mouth, and no action" and the TVR as the "one that smacks it straight in the face!"

Now got to try the cars in the twisties. I get the feeling it may be a different story...

Tuan

[maranellouk]

You sure you were pressing the pedal to the right

[mike s]

maranellouk said:

You sure you were pressing the pedal to the right

Im not sure, cause he only destroyed the Fezza, he should have obliterated it

[dannyboyo]

The figures say it all!!!

Tuscan 0-60 is around 4.2 seconds appaprently (www.tvr-eng.co.uk) and the 355 F1 ('97) is 4.6 (www.ferrari.it)

No sure how the Tuscan would bear up over a standing mile though.

Gentlemen, I move for a dual on an airfield. I've got fifty quid on the Tiv!! (gotta stay loyal!)

[mike s]

0-60's pants, The Tusc wouldn't get the traction, 30-70 and 0-100
Why not do it on the quarter mile simulator?

[fish]

quarter mile for my old 4.0l tuscan on 16" wheels is
12.837 including reaction of 1.124= a qtr mile in 11.713secs at a terminal of 112.37(although I did get faster later)

That is very fast. In fact it was quicker than the Tuscan S press car... I did have a good engine though.

Anyone on here got it May 2001 GTS Blue with prussian and Portland sold from Hexham Horseless.

[captain honesty]

i'd rather see a test against a 360 or 550/575 than one against an ageing 355. the result here is not surprising and hardly big news

[Painey]

I'm not surprised the Tuscan beat the Ferrari because my Griff outpaced one around Bruntingthorpe at VMAX a few weeks back!!

[GI Jnr]

captain honesty said:

i'd rather see a test against a 360 or 550/575 than one against an ageing 355.

Give me a couple of months, and I'll let you know!

captain honesty said:

the result here is not surprising and hardly big news

The thread wasn't intended to do anything other than reinforce what we already know: that a Tuscan can hold it's own against cars twice the price...

Tuan

[Alf Essex]

Painey said:

I'm not surprised the Tuscan beat the Ferrari because my Griff outpaced one around Bruntingthorpe at VMAX a few weeks back!!

Me to at VMAX in my Tuscan S. I think it was 3-1 to me...I lost the first as was on the dodgy side with loose gravel in the wet.

Alan.

[Marki]

Alf Essex said:

I lost the first as was on the dodgy side with loose gravel in the wet. Alan.

So what you are really saying is that the Ferrari was on the dodgy side all the other times

[Painey]

One thing I will say about the F355's at Vmax was they sounded fantastic! In fact when I was watching one of the video clips posted on here, it got to the bit where the two 355's gave it half a ton of right boot from the start and the noise was so loud my cat crapped itself and ran out the room!!!

They don't sound as nice as a Griff though!!

[shnozz]

Painey said:

One thing I will say about the F355's at Vmax was they sounded fantastic! In fact when I was watching one of the video clips posted on here, it got to the bit where the two 355's gave it half a ton of right boot from the start and the noise was so loud my cat crapped itself and ran out the room!!! They don't sound as nice as a Griff though!!

i didnt see any 355's at VMax - but the 360's sounded absolutely lovely

I have in car video footage with Ali in the black 360 spyder and it sounds just fantastic. Different noise from TVR, but stunning all the same

[joust]

Oh - they were there.

I presume you mean this clip???

17Mb 512kbps version
www.lotus-elise.org.uk/stuff/VMAX0304/VMax-March04-512kbps.mpg

33Mbps 1.3Mbps version
www.lotus-elise.org.uk/stuff/VMAX0304/VMax-March04-1.3Mbps.mpg

[loose cannon]

no offence to anybody but i beat a 355 spider and stayed alongside his hardtopped m8 in my astra gsi turbo that i had a good few years ago. ps it was a rolling start from 50 mph and they both got very upset
as it was infront of a lot of people down boxhill hee hee

[Alf Essex]

Marki said:

Alf Essex said: I lost the first as was on the dodgy side with loose gravel in the wet. Alan. So what you are really saying is that the Ferrari was on the dodgy side all the other times

ah yes but it got drier and they have all the traction control thingies....so a fair comparison me thinks

Alan.