RE: TVR to launch 600bhp supercar

RE: TVR to launch 600bhp supercar

Thursday 16th November 2006

TVR to launch 600bhp supercar

New supercharged carbon fibre Typhoon gestates


TVR Typhon: will the Typhoon look like this?
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

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bennno

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rolleyes i expect they will sell loads of them then..

flasher

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Thursday 16th November 2006
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£120k rofl

bennno

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Thursday 16th November 2006
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'speed 6' 'supercharged' and '600bhp' rofl

retroptvr

334 posts

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Thursday 16th November 2006
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Who will service it! Halfords?

flasher

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Thursday 16th November 2006
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comedian said:
he was confident of selling all 60 of the limited edition


rofl

Edited by flasher on Thursday 16th November 11:32

bennno

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it will be tvr's first attempt at CAD...

dinkel

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Thursday 16th November 2006
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Having a laugh really . . . WTF are they thinking.

Who takes TVR serious I wonder . . .

Last 1.5 years they were talking rubbish and have promised castles in the air . . .

Back to reality chaps . . . . Please behave.

Stop making LSD dreams come true.

errek72

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Thursday 16th November 2006
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bennno said:

it will be tvr's first attempt at CAD...


Yes, very reassuring, another masterpiece of communication.
Why do I hear the 'send in the clowns' theme when I read this story?

flasher

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Thursday 16th November 2006
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Benno, superb mate. laugh

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?

Podie

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Thursday 16th November 2006
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clap Bennno and Flasher in double-act comeback... rofl

JR

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cuneus

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Thursday 16th November 2006
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bennno said:

it will be tvr's first attempt at CAD...


clap Do you work there ?

dubbs

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Thursday 16th November 2006
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NS - "LA LA LA LA LA I AMZ NOT LISTNINGSKI...."

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.

JonRB

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Oh, that's a great idea. Call the next car Typhoon to avoid confusion with the existing Typhon. rolleyes

That's almost as sensible as having 3 different models all called Tuscan.

I'll look forward to hearing about the TVR Griffin and Tamsin in due course.

GregE240

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Podie said:
clap Bennno and Flasher in double-act comeback... rofl


thumbup

Edited by GregE240 on Thursday 16th November 12:01

ahonen

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Article said:
The Typhoon will feature TVR's first outing with computer-aided design. "It's a new method of design for us", said Oxley.


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!

bennno

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'cad design is developing at speed since the first attempt...'




Edited by bennno on Thursday 16th November 12:23

TJW

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blabla

woody-oTT

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Thursday 16th November 2006
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bennno said:

it will be tvr's first attempt at CAD...


rofl

Peeved

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Thursday 16th November 2006
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I would have thought a more sensible S2000/Z4/Boxster/TT rival would make more sense.

Certainly the direction I would have taken. More volume, less performance etc. More accessible to buyers that way.