TVR to launch 600bhp supercar
New supercharged carbon fibre Typhoon gestates
 TVR Typhon: will the Typhoon look like this? |
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
i expect they will sell loads of them then..
it wasnt just me that could make a pixel helicopter fly accross a comodore screenErm, sorry, when has TVR not made bnazai performance cars? It is still sticking to what it does best. i.e. making a 600bhp road car* thats about the third of the price of its rivals (performance wise)
Am I missing something, its going to be the same price as a Ferrari F430 or Lamborghini Gallardo - its not a 40k rival??
Bennno
When I first saw the Griffith at the 1990 motor show I dreamed of owning one but seeing as I was 22 at the time I had to save like an idiot to do it. In the meantime I managed to scrape enough together to buy an old wedge and rebuild it. 8 years later I finally bought a Griff. Many TVR enthusaists came into the marque like I did and don't have £40K to buy a T350 let alone £120K.
thats a good point and applied to myself too.
the main difference being mine was a few years older and three times I placed deposits at the show for a new car, in 99 for a Griff500, in 2000 for a Tuscan and in 2002 for a T350C.
If they had done a back to basics well designed roadster with a rorty 6 or 8, simple electronics for sub £30k then a whole new generation of buyers would be snared.
As it is they are trying to sell in the most fiercly competitive segment of the market with a product that just doesnt compete. Take the imminent new Alfa 8C or Audi R8 and tell me a buyer would walk past either to a TVR...
bennno
no, it wouldnt. it would be a pointless excercise as nobody would buy it.
an £4000 formula renault would probably whoop any road car round the track so who gives a stuff about lap times.
The Enzo, Zonda and Carrera GT are all at the absolute peak of the supercar game, tvr simply doesnt sit in the same space as these exquistly engineed beauties.
bennno
Gallardo Drop top or coupe, V8 Vantage, Murceliago, F430 drop top or coupe, GT40, Aston DB9, Porsche 997 Turbo, M6 Cab, SL55 AMG, Porsche GT3RS, Bentley Continental, Ferrari 630, Ferrari F599GTB, Audi R8, Alfa 8C.
Lets be honest if you have the cash to spend £120k then £180k wont cause you a problem either. I dont see how it can differentiate itself from the above, it stands no chance and is futile excercise.
Bennno
Why couldn't they re-release something like maybe a Griff or a Cerb but with a smaller engine, as a more-mass produced lower cost alternative, possibly a 2.5 or 3.5 litre type engine? Most of the design work is history and so it shouldn't be too difficult or costly to produce - assuming someone can now produce TVRs.
Volume might then make the Sagaris etc still available higher up the range.
Right now, I don't see many people spending higher prices on a car where the future of the marque is in doubt, unless as a collectors piece.
I don't think people would buy a cerbera for a smaller engine. The car is not the easiest to drive, and without that power, I doubt you would get many putting up with it.
as a two time cerb owner i would suggest that its only difficult to the poor tractability of the engine from low revs, i.e. it likes stalling
bennno
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