Is every 4.0 Tuscan an ‘S’?

[t1grm]

As the title really. Looking on Autotrader they are variously described as Tuscan 4.0 or Tuscan S. Is it the same car or is this numpty dealers that don’t know what they are selling? TVR’s site say the standard Tuscan is a 3.6 but I don’t see any 3.6s on Autotrader.

[TUS 373]

There have been a couple of variants of engine depending on age. In short:

Earlier cars 2000-2002 (IIRC) were 4.0 standard and 4.0 Red Rose (30 bhp more) - but the cars look the same.

After this, the 'S' had a 4.0 (same as RR) and the boot lid spoiler, the 'standard' car (sounds so wrong to call it that!) has a 3.6.

[t1grm]

I see. Thanks for the info.

[J_S_G]

TUS 373 said:

There have been a couple of variants of engine depending on age. In short: Earlier cars 2000-2002 (IIRC) were 4.0 standard and 4.0 Red Rose (30 bhp more) - but the cars look the same. After this, the 'S' had a 4.0 (same as RR) and the boot lid spoiler, the 'standard' car (sounds so wrong to call it that!) has a 3.6.

RR & S spec cars also have better brakes and height adjustable suspension than normal. Although this has been fitted to normal cars in some cases, too.

"S" spec also includes front lip spoiler, air con as standard, and colour-matched boot carpet (worth £10k on it's own ). Not sure, but doesn't it include xenon headlights, too?

[nsparey]

Yep Xenon high beam, close ratio gear box, bigger discs front and back, colour coded stearing wheel. I belive the standard 18" spiders are wider, or have wider tyres (255 35s all round) later 04 cars have 405 BHP apparently.

[J_S_G]

nsparey said:

Yep Xenon high beam, close ratio gear box, bigger discs front and back, colour coded stearing wheel. I belive the standard 18" spiders are wider, or have wider tyres (255 35s all round) later 04 cars have 405 BHP apparently.

Think the discs are the same as Tuscan RR (and Cerb RR), right? I thought there were other suspension mods, too (more fundamental than springs/dampers), but I'm not sure about that one. Me, I'll stick with my Nitrons.

The BHP thing just keeps going up and up, 5/10 at a time, seemingly. RR spec on a 2000 engine is supposedly 380BHP. TVR Power said that mine should be at least 395 following the rebuild last month.

[S1X OK]

Mine's a straight Tuscan Speed Six but with the 4.0ltr 360Bhp engine. No splitter or tail spoiler and with standard suspension and brakes. It was first registered March 2003, so I'd guess it was built around the back end of 2002. It's not a combination I arrived at, it's simply the way TMS specced it when it was ordered from the factory.