Revised Tamora to be launched at the Motorshow ...

Revised Tamora to be launched at the Motorshow ...

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PetrolTed

34,428 posts

303 months

Wednesday 25th September 2002
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Tittle-tattle is Tamora in GT Cup class, possible revisions of Tuscan R

nubbin

6,809 posts

278 months

Wednesday 25th September 2002
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PLEASE, PLEASE, don't make a higher powered Tamora S - because I would just have to buy one!!

grigio alloy

122 posts

262 months

Wednesday 25th September 2002
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Nubbin-exactly my thoughts. I have barely recovered from the financial implications of forking out for the current one.
Any news on the list of things to be fixed/altered on the Tamora?

flasher

9,238 posts

284 months

Wednesday 25th September 2002
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The Tuscan challenge will be replaced with the Tamora challenge. This make a very good sense marketingwise and...


I think this is unlikely. Carlube have sponsored the series for another two years and trying to sell new cars to all the teams would reduce the grid dramatically. That and none of the teams have had any whiff of such news. There's plenty of other speculation in the pit lanes, but not that.



Mmmm, not so sure Ted as TVR have been waffling on about a "new aero package" all season. This could be in the form of a Tamora like aero package and wouldn't cost that much really.

Whatever the "new coupe" looks like IMO TVR will shoot themselves in the foot again by taking two years to get one on the road thus frustrating potential owners. If they could guarantee production in 6 months i would probably order one.......but what are the chances of them doing that???

Greetings from France by the way, where the weather is hot and I'm just off for a morning swim, have discovered that bennno (who is holidaying with me and 7 others) is useless at almost every form of game going, boules, table tennis, etc.

However, he does win the "how many cars have you owned compettition by a mile!!! The french are mad about cars and the Limited griffith 100 with us and the cerbera have been surrounded wherever we have parked them. Wish i'd bought the Tamora now and not the SLK, but weve done 1500 miles already!!!

Ciao (or should that be Au revoir??)

Flasher

plotloss

67,280 posts

270 months

Wednesday 25th September 2002
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All depends on timings I suppose. If TVR take 2 years to get it to market everyone on a 3 year finance deal who is one year in can consider the change there and then.

Matt.

MikeE

1,831 posts

284 months

Wednesday 25th September 2002
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I'm surprised no one's commented on Teds front page story about Hawthorn Racings plans - go take a look, Rod Barret is being very cagy but it looks like he'll be racing a new TVR in the GT class next year, a Tamora GT maybe (lets hope not!)

PetrolTed

34,428 posts

303 months

Wednesday 25th September 2002
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Mmmm, not so sure Ted as TVR have been waffling on about a "new aero package" all season. This could be in the form of a Tamora like aero package and wouldn't cost that much really.


The aero package was for Tuscans and just never quite happened. They were planning it for this season as you say, but it seems other things took priority in the end. I seem to recall they planned to provide sequential boxes for the Tuscans too. My money is definitely on the Tuscans remaining largely unchanged. It's a cracking formula - why mess with it?

plotloss

67,280 posts

270 months

Wednesday 25th September 2002
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I can see the sequential box becoming an option for all the 'prestige' lines in each of the 'T' cars. Perhaps the Tuscan R is to be the test bed?

Matt.

nubbin

6,809 posts

278 months

Thursday 26th September 2002
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Grigio alloy - can you e-mail me about the ABS issue - how did you get on with that guy in Germany?

PetrolTed

34,428 posts

303 months

Thursday 26th September 2002
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I can see the sequential box becoming an option for all the 'prestige' lines in each of the 'T' cars. Perhaps the Tuscan R is to be the test bed?

Matt.


Don't mention gearboxes! Most Tuscan owners are still waiting for their close ratio boxes to be retro-fitted!

beast

368 posts

284 months

Thursday 26th September 2002
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a) they were supposed to have sequetial's in the Tuscan challenge this year (along with other mods)....it never happened.

b) TuscanR show cars - virtual completed road versions

c) Tamora Cup comp cars - allows (for the 1st time) TVR to compete in a series that people can then associate/buy a version of the car....oooh.

d) Challenge cars will not be instantly replaced (but I would have thought a natural progression would be towards the Tamora-racers over time)

e) Time to bring new "Coupe-Tamora" car to market less than historic as uses chassis & interior of Tamora - they can bang a body together in no time.

f) Poor old Rod at Hawthorn's is on another planet if he thinks TVR are going to be able to build any cup-cars in time for the start of next years series along with TuscanR's.

All IMHO of course

Thom

2,745 posts

273 months

Thursday 26th September 2002
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Wish i'd bought the Tamora now and not the SLK


Now you know what you're really missing!

Thom

2,745 posts

273 months

Thursday 26th September 2002
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New race project for getting to LeMans


[MPmode]
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah![/MPmode]

>> Edited by Thom on Thursday 26th September 18:34

torqemada

168 posts

266 months

Friday 27th September 2002
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Do we know if they've done anything with the arse end ??



"moved the lights down by 20mm, but you'd be hard pushed to notice the difference" Is some of what I've been told about the revisions.

veryplast

167 posts

278 months

Saturday 19th October 2002
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nice invention of shorty!!!