Autocar on the Tamora
Discussion
Steve Cropley in this week's Autocar:
"Fantastic weekend driving TVR's cheapest car, the £36,500 Tamora. What a revelation! Clearly the best built and easiest to use TVR I've ever been in, but stuffed with as much driving character as any car Blackpool ever made. And the performance! This awe-inspiring car, priced a little above a basic Porsche Boxster, can storm to 100mph from standstill in a cool 9 seconds and storm onwards to 180mph flat out. Excellent support systems stand beside such Ferrari-crushing performance: limpet grip, superfast steering, tough clutch, Le Mans-standard brakes. Is it important to have so much performance? After 400 Tamora miles, my answer is a resounding, unequivocal yes. That huge potential makes every drive immeasurably more special. And you're aware of this car's mighty muscles at the slowest speeds. Its fabulous engine note and instant responses travel with you every mile. And when you do get a chance to extend the car (owners would be barmy not to attempt a few sprints and hill climbs) you can call instantly on power and ability enough to eclipse many a pure-bred racing machine. What I admire most about TVR is the way it sticks so firmly to one philosophy: performance is king. This might be a TVR entry model, but it's just as massively fast as the rest. The company makes its own engine, electronics, steering, pedal box and other underbits which other low-volume operations never touch. Why? Because it wants them built a particular way. Precisely how they manage it economically has always been a mystery, but I hope they keep pulling it off forever."
Quite liked it then.
Next week's edition looks good too: "TVR Tamora: Why this is Blackpool's best ever".
Alex.
"Fantastic weekend driving TVR's cheapest car, the £36,500 Tamora. What a revelation! Clearly the best built and easiest to use TVR I've ever been in, but stuffed with as much driving character as any car Blackpool ever made. And the performance! This awe-inspiring car, priced a little above a basic Porsche Boxster, can storm to 100mph from standstill in a cool 9 seconds and storm onwards to 180mph flat out. Excellent support systems stand beside such Ferrari-crushing performance: limpet grip, superfast steering, tough clutch, Le Mans-standard brakes. Is it important to have so much performance? After 400 Tamora miles, my answer is a resounding, unequivocal yes. That huge potential makes every drive immeasurably more special. And you're aware of this car's mighty muscles at the slowest speeds. Its fabulous engine note and instant responses travel with you every mile. And when you do get a chance to extend the car (owners would be barmy not to attempt a few sprints and hill climbs) you can call instantly on power and ability enough to eclipse many a pure-bred racing machine. What I admire most about TVR is the way it sticks so firmly to one philosophy: performance is king. This might be a TVR entry model, but it's just as massively fast as the rest. The company makes its own engine, electronics, steering, pedal box and other underbits which other low-volume operations never touch. Why? Because it wants them built a particular way. Precisely how they manage it economically has always been a mystery, but I hope they keep pulling it off forever."
Quite liked it then.
Next week's edition looks good too: "TVR Tamora: Why this is Blackpool's best ever".
Alex.
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