Do TVR's get crashed a lot ?

[J4CKO]

Always thought the reputation as being a bit tricky to handle was perhaps a bit over stated, just had a look on Ebay and I acknowledge it may be not be the best place too look but about a quarter of the cars for sale are damaged, are they really that liable to catch people out and what is the usual reason, is it just too much throttle in the wet and you end up in the scenery ?

Only known one person with a TVR and her binned it, booted his Chimaera past a truck and it swapped ends and he hit the truck.

[Jasandjules]

IMHO there are a lot of people who go straight from say a Golf GTi to a Chimaera and despite repeatedly being warned about the power and grip especially in the wet they still give it the beans when it's not a good idea, and end up looking like Lewis did yesterday.............. Except usually rhere are ditches/hedges etc where the TVRs spin..

[Heartworm]

I think it's a combination of not many for sale, and a couple of breakers always listing on ebay/pistonheads, you can see the same ones over and over again.

[Welshbeef]

I'm not so sure.

Driver skill is from diabolical to legendary

In general id say there are hardly any legends but there are plenty of inable drivers.
I'd assume plenty are hot blondes big boobs trimmed etc ahem sorry love the politics.

[OldSkoolRS]

There's not as many on PH classifieds, but quite a few that are Cat C or D (so repaired from a previous crash) when you read the small print. Different with spining a TVR on a public road is that you'd be lucky to get away with a drive through penalty...

[900T-R]

Light car, short wheelbase, powerful engines with a fat torque curve. Some ideosyncrasies in geo set up that were either there from the start or introduced later by bouncing off kerbs et cetera. Cars that - compared to Caterfields et al - look glamourous and have become accessible to a wide audience, including Jack-the-lads who aren't necessarily petrolheads that have grown towards owning a 200+ bhp/tonne RWD sports car, but to whom owning a flash, brawny motor is simply part of being er, Jack-the-lad. cars not always maintained to the highest standards. A country with roads in various states of disrepair and er, variable conditions. As hot hatches now come with silly amounts of power, the step from FWD mainstream cars to RWD specialist machinery now is a fair few ssteps further into peoples' driving careers. A generation of drivers now weaned on ABS and traction control on powerful vehicles.

All in all, the proportion of TVR crashes being in line with other exotic/high performance sports car is not so bad, then, given the above.

On the continent, TVR owner demographics and driving conditions are fairly different and it shows in hardly any accidents to report about (and comparatively low insurance premiums)

[Classic Grad 98]

Perhaps the answer is that people tend to keep their TVRs, unless they bin it- in which instance they can be tricky to repair properly and the driver may have been put off?
Everyone is used to predictable handling and then PSM/TCS etc when they run out of talent. No safety net in a TVR.

[900T-R]

swerni said:

It must be hard to crash a car that spends 95% of its time in the garage

If you do 15,000 miles a year, your car still spends 98% of its time in the garage (or on the driveway/parked in the street).

[OldSkoolRS]

That's a bit below the (cam)belt.

[AREA]

I can't remember where but about 6 years ago I came across a couple of stats on TVR ownership "80% of accidents happen in the first year of ownership" and equally "in 80% of TVR accidents there is no other vehicle involved". The right hand (foot?) pedal is where the Devil lives.