Should I go back to my first love?
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Hi. I’m facing a bit of a dilemma as I’ll soon be parting with my awesome Ducati sportsbike for health reasons. At the moment, this accompanies my Porsche 997 which I use for both commuting and fun. I have had 4 TVRs in the past (to 2005) i.e. Chim 4 / 4.5, Cerbera 4 / Tuscan Mk 1. So I need to replace the drama of the bike. Plus I went to the Chatsworth TVR gathering this year and came back wanting another!
Please try and stay objective for this one which I know will be hard! but I would be grateful for views on the prospects of me swopping said 997 for a Tuscan 2 as a weekend car (plus a daily runabout). I know they are quite different but it’s been a long time since I drove a TVR and the 4 I owned were only a year or two old. So grateful for comparisons of steering/handling primarily. Plus, one thing that bugs me is if a car is rattly. I remember my TVRs feeling very solid with the space frame including the Tuscan Mk1 apart from the targa panel on occasions. What are the Tuscan 2s like for rattle-ability? Thanks in advance. Martin.
Please try and stay objective for this one which I know will be hard! but I would be grateful for views on the prospects of me swopping said 997 for a Tuscan 2 as a weekend car (plus a daily runabout). I know they are quite different but it’s been a long time since I drove a TVR and the 4 I owned were only a year or two old. So grateful for comparisons of steering/handling primarily. Plus, one thing that bugs me is if a car is rattly. I remember my TVRs feeling very solid with the space frame including the Tuscan Mk1 apart from the targa panel on occasions. What are the Tuscan 2s like for rattle-ability? Thanks in advance. Martin.
Buy a VXR220 stage 4 (or any VX220 turbo stage 4)and go play with the bikes, great fun, bike acceleration, peanuts to buy at the moment, and fantastic road holding, if its been changed to nitrons or similar, which it will have been if it has a stage 4.
It will also shake all your fillings out.
It will also shake all your fillings out.
Whether you get a Mk1 or Mk 2 is immaterial now as long as either one has been fastidiously updated and sorted with the usual procedures (rebuild, nitrons, etc).
The utility of a Tuscan as an everyday car is questionable if nothing else because it is so exceptionally conceived- it is to me something that has value at least partly besause it represents escape and outrageousness. You could technically go to your workplace every day with a well sorted Tuscan, but why? Would you wear your high-maintenance, favourite, smartest, slickest suit every day to work? Depends what you do and what you are like as a person too, I guess. To me it is great because even if I had a 996 as a dilay driver, the Tuscan would be a whole new level of fun on the weekend.
Anyway, my preference is for the Mk1 because it is just so blindingly raw and unapologetic. 'Refining it' to the Mark 2 was akin to putting a rubber bung on the end of your pet rhino's horn.
The utility of a Tuscan as an everyday car is questionable if nothing else because it is so exceptionally conceived- it is to me something that has value at least partly besause it represents escape and outrageousness. You could technically go to your workplace every day with a well sorted Tuscan, but why? Would you wear your high-maintenance, favourite, smartest, slickest suit every day to work? Depends what you do and what you are like as a person too, I guess. To me it is great because even if I had a 996 as a dilay driver, the Tuscan would be a whole new level of fun on the weekend.
Anyway, my preference is for the Mk1 because it is just so blindingly raw and unapologetic. 'Refining it' to the Mark 2 was akin to putting a rubber bung on the end of your pet rhino's horn.
Edited by Light n Hairy on Friday 14th June 08:37
TOV!E said:
The Tuscan 2 is miles better built than the MK1, as the new TVR owner said " they just got TVRs right then they closed down,, buy as late mode l as possible and I don't think you will be disappoint, mind, you it's nowhere near porky quality
I agree with TOV!E. I have owned a MK1 and now have an T2S. The thrills and spills are still there, but the Mk2 does not actively attempt to send you into a wall at any and every opperchancity (Thanks to les Dawson for that one!). I am running with Nitrons and all round its a pleaseure to drive around. I also find it a great commuting car, but I have the bonus of using rural roads to get to work.
Tuscan Wil said:
Whatever TVR you are getting, don't sell the Ducati. Put her up on SORN. Keep her as a piece of art collection. They are just beautiful to look at and lovely listen to. Just fire her up every now and then, and I tell you the exhaust note will give you goosebumps everytime.
What he said. 
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