Tamora vs Chimera !!!
Discussion
A few years ago I went from a Tamora to a Griffith 500 (with a 911 in-between) and was disappointed. The Griffith had great character but if you like driving then the chassis is no where near as well sorted which I suppose you would expect when the Griff was developed 10 years before the Tamora. I only kept the Griff for 9 months as I missed having a decent handling car. I dare say that if you know what mods to make to a Griff then the handling can be improved. Why not sell your Tamora and buy an earlier one? I bet £12k could pick up an 02 Tam with 25k on the clock if you find a desperate seller.
gary_de_tam said:
I have a '04 tam and looking to remove some of the capital
so might go with a Griff or Chim ! am I going to be extremely
disappointed and should reconsider my options !
I went from a Chim 450 to a Tamora, (with a VX220 Turbo in between!). Yes, the Tam handles much better, but the Chim has bags of character and at the end of the day, you'd still have a TVR and circa £9K in your wallet. so might go with a Griff or Chim ! am I going to be extremely
disappointed and should reconsider my options !
Hi,
I've just bought a Tamora but still have the Chim (which I'm trying to sell). They're such very different cars! Drove the Chim into work this morning for a change and still love the old girl with that burbling V8 - if I could afford to have both I would - but the Tam's the one I want to keep when forced to choose!
Neville
I've just bought a Tamora but still have the Chim (which I'm trying to sell). They're such very different cars! Drove the Chim into work this morning for a change and still love the old girl with that burbling V8 - if I could afford to have both I would - but the Tam's the one I want to keep when forced to choose!
Neville
grumbledoak said:
Yup. You will free up the 9k, plus up to 2k per year in servicing. Enough, then, to make sense. It would break my heart, though, to have to do it.
Good luck with the 'golf clubs'.
Surely an £11k Chim is going to cost more in replacement parts etc to offset the servicing savings vs a fairly new Tamora?Good luck with the 'golf clubs'.
I thought the Tam/3.6 s6 wasn't quite that bad as the AJP V8 and big 4.0 S6's when it came to running/servicing? When I was adding up servicing costs at a decent indy the difference seemed negligible between a Griff/Chim 500 and a Tammy...!?
Not an expert, I remember lots of people saying a Cerbie was pretty £££ wrt to keeping in good shape etc, but didn't realise the Tam's were that much worse than an older Chim/Griff to be saving nearly £2k a year!
Dave
A good Tamora costs no more to run and service than an RV8 car. I spent about £6-800 a year on servicing and minor niggles, and there's plenty of indies about for S6 cars.
As for slow compared to a Chimaera?
They're all about the same, but a Chim/Griff feel faster because of the low end torque and all it's attendant drama. But if you want to get point-to-point quickly, a Tamora will run away from any stock RV8 model. The twistier a road is, the better the Tamora gets.
BTW, I miss mine a lot.
As for slow compared to a Chimaera?
They're all about the same, but a Chim/Griff feel faster because of the low end torque and all it's attendant drama. But if you want to get point-to-point quickly, a Tamora will run away from any stock RV8 model. The twistier a road is, the better the Tamora gets.BTW, I miss mine a lot.
TGJR said:
I bet £12k could pick up an 02 Tam with 25k on the clock if you find a desperate seller.
12k- You must be joking 
2 questions- where have you read that advert & what have you been smoking?????
Edited to say- guide from PH Classifieds
'02 Tam
Edited by Fly Boy on Monday 12th November 22:23
Fly Boy said:
TGJR said:
I bet £12k could pick up an 02 Tam with 25k on the clock if you find a desperate seller.
12k- You must be joking 2 questions- where have you read that advert & what have you been smoking?????
Edited to say- guide from PH Classifieds
'02 Tam
Edited by Fly Boy on Monday 12th November 22:23
OscarT said:
You wouldn't be disappointed if you changed from the Tamora to a good Griffith.
OscarT
I think you might. I went from a very sorted Chim 500 to a T350 and the handling and straight-line performance of T350 is simply in a different league. I take your point though that the Griff is a very special car and that driving on normal roads there wouldn't be much to use between thenm performance-wise.OscarT
OscarT said:
You wouldn't be disappointed if you changed from the Tamora to a good Griffith - but then you might have to put money to the Tamora proceeds to get a good un.
OscarT
Hmm i think you might. Ive been having a similar kind of dilemna since buying my T350RR. I had a Griff 500 for a good few years before changing to the T. I keep going through periods of thinking i want a Griff again and that i should sell the T but then i take the backroads in the T and im reminded about the actual difference between the two cars and i change my mind again. The two are absolutely leagues apart in the handling department they really are. Also once the revs are up in the right area a good T350 will leave a good Griff 500 absolutely standing still on the twisties. The griff will always be my favourite TVR and i still might revert back at some point, but as a drivers car it will be a step backwards for me personally without a doubt.The T is a genuine proper modern sportscar, get out of a T and straight in to Griff or chimeara and it is immediately apparent the Griff and the chimeara are 20 yr old designs and you can feel it when you drive them.All IMHO of course....Now im off to read those Griff adds !!!!!!!OscarT
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