Friday 16th April 2010

New Lease Of Life For Original TVR Tuscan

Race specialist CWR to revive memory of Tuscan with Titan coupe

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It seems that Mr Smolenski's planned TVR revival isn't the only TVR resurrection going on at the moment - Midlands-based race specialist CWR has been hard at work building a racing reproduction of the original 1968 TVR Tuscan.

The car was unveiled at the Race Retro show in Warwickshire in March, where an overwhelmingly positive reaction to the car prompted CWR to look into the possibility of a road-going version.

"A lot of visitors to the show had heard about the race car and were very interested to see how it would look as a road model," says CWR's managing director, Mike Luck. "The CWR team have already started work on the modifications required."

The road-going version has been christened the Titan, and - with development help from ex-TVR competition manager Chris Schirle - the first car is expected to be completed by August, with numbers two and three built by the end of September.

The Titan will be powered by a 480bhp Chevrolet LS3 V8, with a five-speed manual transmission and a limited-slip differential. CWR hopes it will also weigh-in at just 980kg, so performance should be pretty brutal. If you want one, CWR estimates that you'll have to shell out around £42,500 plus VAT for the privilege.

The Titan project, which started after CWR got hold of the original moulds that had been sitting in a barn for 20 years, should mark the start of a new chapter for an iconic car.

"We believe there is a market for this type of retro-looking performance car and I am confident that we can produce a competitively priced, well-balanced package that will reflect the heritage and style of the original car whilst respecting and preserving the divide between our version and original examples," says Luck. "It's a great advantage to have Chris [Schirle] as a member of the team and I am sure his experience will help us to produce a car that is very exciting to drive."

The race version at Race Retro

[soad]

Drool, car looks so damn cool!

[Garlick]

I really like that, but please tell me they haven't added some LED DRLs to the front......

Great looking car though. Want.

[Fidgits]

power to weight sounds ambitious.... but lovely if they hit it

[ScottishSamurai]

Garlick said:

I really like that, but please tell me they haven't added some LED DRLs to the front......

Great looking car though. Want.

You had to point that out, it was going to get a 10 from me until that Wonder how they are attached and if you could just take them off? shirley you wouldn't get pulled for that...

[King Fisher]

This is exactly what TVR should have done when the Rover V8 went out of production - stick in a Chevy V8.

The car looks superb and I bet it goes like stink. If they build it as a road car, I want one.

[soad]

What, no engine bay photos?! Standards are slipping!

[Dagnut]

If you don't want that car your dead inside.

[JonRB]

That's pretty gorgeous. Even if it is (new) Sagaris money.

[Galsia]

Looks a bit too much like an MGB GT for my tastes...

[madrob6]

That's lovely but the front bumper ruins it for me.

[louismchuge]

[cathalm]

That really is fabulous, need to see inside the car and under the bonnet though.

[Altrezia]

Oh boy, I really want one of these.

[paynter17]

that is so

[Garlick]

Galsia said:

Looks a bit too much like an MGB GT for my tastes...

Looks like a Tuscan to me

[PetrolTed]

Now that is proper tasty. How much fun would that be on track

[Rob Crutch]

It looks great apart from the front bumper, I would have preferred to see something more like the one above ^ (but a bit tidied up)

Edited by Rob Crutch on Friday 16th April 11:35

[Poledriver]

Always loved that shape, can't wait for them to drop down to my price bracket!

[teen_cerbera]

That looks fantastic!! One small detail I dont like though, the rear light chrome surrounds, I know its classic styling, But I think they would look better "smoothed" into the body.

[kambites]

That front bumper/splitter does look very out of place.