Does M515 RCW (the Top Gear test Cerb) still exist?

[Boatbuoy]

This one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b1X9Tl_qe4

My question is purely out of curiosity!

Regards,
Olly

[Gray_101]

I heard that Back home performance in blackpool has restored it this year, but I've not seen any pictures to back this claim up

I've often been asked if mine is that car

[Rawhide]

Was it a 4.2 or a 4.5?

I thought they drag raced a tornado jet with a 4.2 but I can't find that clip.

[Mark.]

Rawhide said:

I thought they drag raced a tornado jet with a 4.2 but I can't find that clip.

Been searching for that clip for ages with no joy.

If anyone can post the link that'd be great!

[Rawhide]

just watched it again and it looks like a 4.5 under the hood

[Obiwonkeyblokey]

How very dare you. Why would TVR run a road test on a "4.2" Cerbera just before launch and put a different engine into it than the one they would offer for production a year or so before the 4.5 became available? Next thig youll be saying it had a Tuscan engine in it!

[ukkid35]

Obiwonkeyblokey said:

Next thig youll be saying it had a Tuscan engine in it!

In fact that is a Tuscan Dry Sump engine with it's timing cover removed.

[Obiwonkeyblokey]

which is why I posted two above.

[Boatbuoy]

Mark. said:

Rawhide said:

I thought they drag raced a tornado jet with a 4.2 but I can't find that clip.

Been searching for that clip for ages with no joy.

If anyone can post the link that'd be great!

They did indeed, it was a silver Cerb racing an F3 if I'm not wrong. I had a full page picture which I cut out of Top Gear magazine on the wall above my desk while at uni. I still have it somewhere I'm sure. I did a Google image search but to no avail, If/when I find my copy I'll post it up.

Regards,
Olly

[Rawhide]

Boatbuoy said:

They did indeed, it was a silver Cerb racing an F3 if I'm not wrong. I had a full page picture which I cut out of Top Gear magazine on the wall above my desk while at uni. I still have it somewhere I'm sure. I did a Google image search but to no avail, If/when I find my copy I'll post it up.

Regards,
Olly

This one allegedly..

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3006849.htm

Edited by Rawhide on Wednesday 19th October 22:13

[Mark.]

Boatbuoy said:

They did indeed, it was a silver Cerb racing an F3 if I'm not wrong.

Could be right. There is/was a story doing the rounds that the Cerb kept beating the plane over the measured distance in practice, and then, just before the final shoot the pilot suggested there was a problem with the plane and so they swapped it for another without weapons on or something - and the plane won.

Probably BS but a good pub story for us owners

[verminator]

Do you mean the red cerb that was 'fast enough to create its own weather'? If you do then it was a 4.2 as the 4.5 wasn't yet out.

[robsco]

verminator said:

Do you mean the red cerb that was 'fast enough to create its own weather'? If you do then it was a 4.2 as the 4.5 wasn't yet out.

No, that was N244KCW. This was the raspberry example from the original Top Gear test circa 1995. Under the bonnet looks suspiciously familiar to the 4.5. A quick Experian search suggests that M515 does still exist somewhere in some form.

[jonlcerb]

I own it.

[Gray_101]

Do you have any info,, pics your willing to share ? Is it still original, how long have you owned it etc ..., ?

[C3BER]

jonlcerb said:

I own it.

I'm Spartacus!

[Gazzab]

andy from APM drove it - it came into Hawthorns with some probs. It was vvv fast - had a 4.5 tuscan racer engine with some trick bits eg induction. afaik

[jonlcerb]

C3BER said:

I'm Spartacus!

Lucky you!