New TVR Shmee video.

[cayman-black]

I hate to say this but i do prefer this to the new Vantage, a few Aston owner there as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIJpphK7SGc

[Frances The Mute]

Every time that guy opens his mouth, I want to punch him in the throat.

[8Speed]

Frances The Mute said:

Every time that guy opens his mouth, I want to punch him in the throat.

Although I'm not quite so violent by nature, I do agree with you - there's just something too smug about him .
I love TVRs and I've had a couple of them in the past but they can't really be compared with the new Vantage in terms of quality imho.

[Veg]

Form an orderly queue for a moneyed background t*t. Could charge and make a fortune.


That said he knows his stuff.....

[V12Manual]

+1

Met him a number of years ago and he is a bit of a D***

Seriously don't watch his videos. So annoying.

[anonymous-user]

Probably a reason why this is in the AM forum but don't know what it is.

I skipped along the preview bar at the bottom rather than watch the video. And shmee gets to be a passenger, but not a driver of the TVR, right? Maybe he explains that in the video, but that strikes me as pretty fking odd.

"What's wring with it" sort of odd.

[Beefmeister]

I guess you’ll all hate this video then

https://youtu.be/t905ILZCT9M

Edited by Beefmeister on Tuesday 30th October 15:59

[BamfordMike]

Greg66 said:

Probably a reason why this is in the AM forum but don't know what it is.

I skipped along the preview bar at the bottom rather than watch the video. And shmee gets to be a passenger, but not a driver of the TVR, right? Maybe he explains that in the video, but that strikes me as pretty fking odd.

"What's wring with it" sort of odd.

With production supposed to be starting sometime in 2020, that car is early prototype (in the vid the main man says it’s only just been up to high speed for the first time recently), so no surprises that civilians don’t get chance to drive it this early cos obviously, there is indeed plenty wrong with it cos it’s a prototype.

That TVR looks awesome, love it. Exactly the ingredients Aston should have mixed up for the new Vantage. Lightweight, 500BHP and manual. Price circa £90k

However, good luck getting it through homologation TVR! And you’ve certainly done Aston a huge favour not being market ready with it now so not able to compete with new Vantage

[Beefmeister]

One very interesting snippet if you watch the whole video is that Les mentions lots of new challenges they had to face which have delayed production, one of them he lists is a new engine.

So I’m guessing it’s not the Ford unit any more?

[cayman-black]

Beefmeister said:

I guess you’ll all hate this video then:

https://youtu.be/t905ILZCT9M

Thx Beef , i enjoyed it anyway.

[Beefmeister]

cayman-black said:

Beefmeister said:

I guess you’ll all hate this video then:

https://youtu.be/t905ILZCT9M

Thx Beef , i enjoyed it anyway.

I’m glad, i meant to do a wink smiley at the end of that post!

[JohnG1]

Frances The Mute said:

Every time that guy opens his mouth, I want to punch him in the throat.

Really? Tim is a nice guy. Maybe you should chill out a bit.

[AMVSVNick]

JohnG1 said:

Frances The Mute said:

Every time that guy opens his mouth, I want to punch him in the throat.

Really? Tim is a nice guy. Maybe you should chill out a bit.

Agreed.

[Wayne95]

TVR sounded good, but when that GT8 started up, that was stunning !

Some nice details though and the interior was impressive

[leman600]

Liked the videos and although I don't know Shmee at all he is after all a genuine petrol head I think doesn't deserve rudeness.

[raceboy]

Beefmeister said:

One very interesting snippet if you watch the whole video is that Les mentions lots of new challenges they had to face which have delayed production, one of them he lists is a new engine.

So I’m guessing it’s not the Ford unit any more?

Not sure, I'd be surprised if it's changed that dramatically although by the time it actually gets into production it'll probably need to be an EV

[SXIV]

The most recent article I read said that it was still going to be an unopened 5.0 Ford Coyote engine with some bolt-ons developed by Cosworth.

[V8V Pete]

I wish them all the luck in the world with this project because we all love TVR but I have to say I don't particularly like the way it looks and I don't particularly like the way it sounds. I'll be sticking with my ancient enhanced Vantage S (5 year service yesterday) for the foreseeable as I'm still not seeing anywhere else I'd rather be (except a Zonda R!).

[leerandle]

I think the TVR in principle was right, but I agree with Pete that it doesn't inspire me with its looks or sound. But again, I wish them good luck and can't wait to see the production version.

As regards Scmee bashing, I'm not a massive fan, but do watch some of his videos and appreciate his knowledge and experience.

I suppose I'm slightly jealous that he gets to buy all these fantastic cars that most of us could only ever dream about.

That Mclaren Senna is just a piece of art.......