Here's Your First Look At TVR's All-New Sports Car
If you’re any sort of petrolhead, the image above should excite you greatly. It was just released by TVR to tease deposit holders on what’s to come from the British manufacturer, which has been given a new lease of life to work on a brand new sports car. The new car is expected to be delivered in 2017, and despite the fact this is the first hint towards how it will look - and that no one knows its performance figures or even how much it’ll cost - the first year of production has already sold out.
So what exactly has 250 people so excited about this new car that they put down a £5000 deposit? Well, TVR has promised that the car will be true to the company’s DNA and British heritage, so you know it’ll be a raw and raucous drive. It’ll also have a Cosworth-tuned version of Ford’s ‘Coyote’ V8, which will be placed in the front of the car. Power will be routed to the rear wheels via a manual gearbox. Old school.
But perhaps key in explaining why prospective customers are putting faith in a brand that has a rather questionable financial history is the fact that this new TVR is being built in conjunction with Gordon Murray. The legendary Formula 1 designer has been working on his own vehicle manufacturing project dubbed iStream, which aims to simplify car construction. The TVR range is expected to be the first to utilise this process.
It’s clear TVR is pretty serious about making this work, particularly when you see that it’s intent on putting a car on the Le Mans 24h grid in 2017. It’s easy to be a skeptic in this day and age, but here’s a story that looks like it’ll have a happy ending.
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There is no way they will put such big wheels on production version. I guarantee it.
No they never do, but it’s the overall picture and the idea that counts
It’s TVR those center caps are actually the car’s cup holders
Design sketches are to showcase the overall vision and styling cues for the car. If there is a design element you want highlighted in the sketch, you exaggerate it.
Only afterward do you then boil it down to something more production friendly.
Would handle like poop with rims that big
Well be thankfull for that, after deleting those Concept stuff, it will be nicer, more classy.
Awesome!! And it looks like,p the sagaris which is my favorite
All TVR’s were very similar
Stahpppp I can’t wait
I can see some lines of the Tuscan and T350. Can’t wait to see it in action. All supercar manufacturers are going to have to have a bad time fighting this magnificent art
Edit: It could be a render by someone else. I can’t see it on their homepage
tvr.co.uk
The sketch will be part of a press pack, not a public website image.
Also Autocar did a very accurate renderEdit: TVR actually uses modified Autocar image to make the new teaser
http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/tvr-teases-new-car-using-modified-autocar-image
If I was to change this in any way I would bring the rear quarter panel in a bit and put a low, sharp spoiler onto it. Like the audi r8.
10 outta 10. Would bang
You go, Trevor!
Looks similar to the Maserati Alfieri:
nope, looks like the sagaris. It’s still a coupé
ok maybe i can see the similarities, its a car, it has wheels on it and windows and its grey, don’t see any other similarities though lol
Hey Darren Cassey, brutish? (first sentence)
Let’s just hope it maintains that tvr madness we’ve come to love