TVR to launch 600bhp supercar
New supercharged carbon fibre Typhoon gestates
TVR is to launch a supercar at the Geneva motor show next spring.
It'll be called the Typhoon, and will feature TVR's all-aluminium Speed Six engine, supercharged to produced 600bhp. The carbon-fibre body ensures that it'll be expensive, TVR spokesman Jason Oxley saying that, although a retail price has yet to be fixed, around £120,000 "is about right".
In terms of styling, Oxley said that he couldn't describe what it'll look like, except that it'll be recognisable as a TVR. The Typhoon will feature TVR's first outing with computer-aided design. "It's a new method of design for us", said Oxley.
He said that the company had already taken orders for the car and so, as the still-born Typhon project could have sold twice as many as were planned, he was confident of selling all 60 of the limited edition -- the number celebrating TVR's 60th birthday.
We'll be bringing you more information as soon as we get it -- probably within 10 days.
Picture courtesy www.cerbie.com
Seriously, what are they thinking of? If TVR have any future whatsoever, they should be doing what soemone suggested in Sprint magazine this month. And that is to bring out a 2007 version of the S, and I dont neccesarily mean the design but the idea, A £25- 30K affordable sports car. Even if you won the lottery you wouldn't spend £120K on a TVR. MG SV anyone?
TVR should spend more time trying to understnad why they can't sell any of the affordable cars instead of trying to compete with the marques that have credibility.
You may be able to cite "loads of cash" being a mark of quality in Russia but in the automotive world the other side of the Eastern Bloc either a pedigree or a unique reason to buy your product is needed.
What's the USP of a 120k TVR?
Don't answer that.
I'm very surprised that the PR men in TVR aren't using their brains and coming up with something workable. I could do better and I should know far less about the car industry than they do.
Hmm. Neil designed the entire Cerbera Speed 12 chassis/suspension via 3D CAD (and 2D AutoCAD, which shows how long ago it was), which is why so much of it was machined aluminium.
Tom, who's been there years, has been doing 3D drawings since before I started there ('98), using, I think, Solid Works.
Perhaps he means that the body will be styled electronically, which would be a first - but then both Damien and GB were fully versed in Alias.
Jason, you need to come up with better press releases than that!
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