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Some of James' best work is when he gets behind the wheel of TVR. Theres a genuine, infectious enthusiasm that comes across from the camera. It does beg the question, when are you finally going to buy one?
I own a 2000 Dodge Viper ACR. I have wanted to try a TVR since my Gran Turismo days. It’s always felt like TVR and Vipers shared the same spirit, questionable build quality with a bit too much power and amazing looks. Unfortunately they’re a bit difficult to come by here in the US.
Not for long. The 1st 1999 Tuscan models are now USA eligible. I'm rebuilding mine at the mo and in 2 years when she 25 years old she may well head to the USA.
Bonkers! I love a TVR! The chassis on my old 280S2 flexed so much the clamshell catches would pop off mid corner when on it 🫣 or my car was just poop but I loved it, happy days ☺️
American here car nut since birth and lucky enough to be around cars from all over the world. Always loved and wanted a TVR. With 25 year import now can actually get one hopefully. This one is too cool.
I saw it at a motorway services a couple of months ago. Trust me, it looked awful. The color did it no favours. I think in a different color (as well as the brake calipers in a different color), it would look better.
does anyone else hear something wrong with the audio? it sounds like theres a sidechain going on thats cutting out some frequencies periodically, rather jarring
it's peaking youtube works at 14 luf so if you master it and it's too loud when it peaks you get that cut in the audio. i make my videos slightly quieter to avoid this then i get people complaining it's too quiet. finding the happy medium is really hard.
"TVR shooting in the head😂" That's when it got bored of trying to throw you out 😂 every time you even sniffed at the throttle coming out if a greasy roundabout (and that not even lifting off suddenly).
I like the front but for me the rear as a convertible looks a but awkward, but then after the griff and chimaera anything would. Fair play to the owner though for doing what he wanted.
11:49 3 unlabelled buttons 2 for the windscreen wipers and one that open the door 😂 best check them when stationary then me thinks I wonder how many times it starts raining a tvr door flings open 😂
I remember the movie Swordfish with John Travolta. It had at least one TVR in it. They're unique rides. Another unique ride... I miss seeing the Morgan Aero 8. That is a sweet car.
Nice video as usual. And nice hybrid car 😉. I saw this summer a Sagscan or Tusgaris, I believe just a Tuscan with Sagaris body panels but this was not too bad either.
James, I had to report several bots in the comments for sexual content. I am wondering if I need to also report the whole video for this ludicrous and amazing TVR.
couldn't one insert filters in those cut-outs on the bonnet? It would be cool to just know that atleast some air is getting through and they do atleast serve some purpose. However small that may be.
Cool cut n shut.Fair play! Shame TVR never did it but to be honest all the T cars are basically the same. I remember them coming under quite a lot of criticism for having lots of models that where basically the same thing. They effectively cannibalised each others sales.
Isn't the task of a TVR the same as that of the first Suzuki GSX-R 1100? To scare the driver shit less and at the same time give them THE driving experience.
Brilliant video. If you’d got Jeremy Clarksons old job at TopGear it might have survived. But we got a radio 2 DJ and a cricket player. Wonder why it went wrong😂
I enjoy its uniqueness, right down to the odd pedal box configuration (looking like three accelerator pedals) and the stand-out colour is majestic in its insouciance. Now can I be fairer than that?
I's say that verde mantis is also very fitting name for a color on this car. Mainly because it kinda looks like a mantis. (I am prepared for the whole internet to tell me to go to specsavers)
Just the sound of that engine alone is absolutely addicting! Unfortunately, I live in the US and there are no TVR dealers, and you have to wait until a car is 25 years old before you can import it anyway. However, is there a way I can purchase just a TVR engine and have it shipped over?
I would say that the Tuscan is the most beautiful car they ever made. And the Tasmin is the coolest looking. Kind of like how the Miura is the most beautiful Lamborghini ever made and the Countach is the coolest looking Lamborghini.
Nothing sounds as Sonorous as a TVR. Whether its the Rover V8, even the Flat V8 has it's own Unique sound but that Straight Six has such a Musical, Glorious Sound I'm not Surprised they turned the Volume Up!!
Great vid of a unique car. Something wonky going on with the audio though, as if some sort of overzealous normalizing algorithm is trying to deal with clipping.
that is wild. im a big 350 fan especially with that killer lexan ducktail. there was a British ganster movie that the lead guy drove and I cant remember the name of the movie. are you familiar. Im of uk heritage but born in the state and I love my British cars. this is awesome!!! cheers
Wonder what those beeps are in the at low speed. Anti stall? Radar? Even Jays audio sounds like it mutes something out every second or so. Its the little gremlins they have.
James will want to know about the blue Tuscaris (I think that is what the owner has called it) as this gives you Tuscan with a Sagaris exterior but stiffer as a targa rather than a convertible…
It was clear enough to me in the 1990s that a TVR was not for me but I definitely enjoyed that they existed and I think the automotive world is a poorer place without them. It's a poorer place overall, compared to the 90s of course. The 90s was probably close to the apogee of automobile engineering in terms of internal combustion, transmission and suspension. What has followed has been the gradual transformation of cars into soulless, bloated, GBP 100.000 iPads with wheels. If TVR hadn't failed when it did it would certainly have gone under now or had to change its character beyond recognition to survive.
I wonder how loud it actually is when you described it that way. I've been in my mate's modded car and it's already loud enough when we're in it. Just hope that the pedestrians won't be cursing you too much I guess when you're driving this kind of cars lol
There's always something beautifully bonkers and brilliantly barking about any TVR, unfortunately here in Ireland just the road tax alone would be anywhere between 1800 to 2400 Euros per year, depending on model year. One day though! 😉
It's going to take every ounce of self control I have not to want to import a Sagarus when they become legal in the US in several years. I've lusted over one ever since Jeremy Clarkson reviewed one on Top Gear. The only two things that might prevent me from doing so are the prices that keep going up, and the fact that I know it'll break, often, as TVRs do.
.... this looks like created to abuse Dodge Viper...😁 In terms of buld approache somehow it reminds me prototype of Jaguar XK spider/roadster...🤔 Alex is my sort of automotive-MacGiver hero!
Despite many aborted and half arsed attempts,it seems that there is still some interest in TVR from a business stand point, having owned 3 Chimaeras,a Griffith,3 tuscans ,a Tuscan S and 4 Cerbera's I would be happy to see a new TVR become a reality. I have a pal I got parts through,who used to be a part of the Peninsula team from Cornwall and still has an 'ear in'. Apparently something is definitely ongoing but he is reluctant to state much more than what's already public knowledge,that is that there will be a petrol and electric version launched simultaneously,The current backer is a Lithium mining company from Africa,TVR's required investment is quite substantial but chicken feed to them. There Various and rapidly changing rules regarding compliance are always going to be a stumbling block for a company like TVR.
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"-all you had is a long travel throttle pedal and your choice of deity." Coolest line I've heard in a long time.
Thankyou :)
When you thought you finally acquired all the knowledge you needed about TVR, here comes Jay going "Actually..."😂
You got JayEmmed
Some of James' best work is when he gets behind the wheel of TVR. Theres a genuine, infectious enthusiasm that comes across from the camera. It does beg the question, when are you finally going to buy one?
One day. But not today.
That thing is insane, completely ludicrous, and absolutely fantastic! I want one!
I own a 2000 Dodge Viper ACR. I have wanted to try a TVR since my Gran Turismo days. It’s always felt like TVR and Vipers shared the same spirit, questionable build quality with a bit too much power and amazing looks. Unfortunately they’re a bit difficult to come by here in the US.
Not for long. The 1st 1999 Tuscan models are now USA eligible. I'm rebuilding mine at the mo and in 2 years when she 25 years old she may well head to the USA.
Finally someone built the Sagaris I dreamt of as small kid
Bonkers! I love a TVR! The chassis on my old 280S2 flexed so much the clamshell catches would pop off mid corner when on it 🫣 or my car was just poop but I loved it, happy days ☺️
This car is SO AWESOME! The coolest TVR I've ever seen, absolutely perfect color choice too!
American here car nut since birth and lucky enough to be around cars from all over the world. Always loved and wanted a TVR. With 25 year import now can actually get one hopefully. This one is too cool.
This car looks bonkers. Part of me likes the styling, part of me would be slightly embarrassed driving it. It certainly makes a statement!
Yes they say Ferrari drivers are small I reckon TVR drivers have those huge Japanese tentacle things
I saw it at a motorway services a couple of months ago. Trust me, it looked awful. The color did it no favours. I think in a different color (as well as the brake calipers in a different color), it would look better.
What a fantastic car! That noise is glorious, like a race tuned Austin Healey 3000. Yum!
does anyone else hear something wrong with the audio? it sounds like theres a sidechain going on thats cutting out some frequencies periodically, rather jarring
Wind noise being badly cancelled by the camera perhaps.
Sounds like wind noise and vibration cutting in
It's hurting my ears
it's peaking youtube works at 14 luf so if you master it and it's too loud when it peaks you get that cut in the audio. i make my videos slightly quieter to avoid this then i get people complaining it's too quiet. finding the happy medium is really hard.
I thought it was just my ears. 😂 But no, something definitely off.
"TVR shooting in the head😂" That's when it got bored of trying to throw you out 😂 every time you even sniffed at the throttle coming out if a greasy roundabout (and that not even lifting off suddenly).
I like the front but for me the rear as a convertible looks a but awkward, but then after the griff and chimaera anything would. Fair play to the owner though for doing what he wanted.
11:49 3 unlabelled buttons 2 for the windscreen wipers and one that open the door 😂 best check them when stationary then me thinks I wonder how many times it starts raining a tvr door flings open 😂
I remember the movie Swordfish with John Travolta. It had at least one TVR in it. They're unique rides. Another unique ride... I miss seeing the Morgan Aero 8. That is a sweet car.
Yup that's a Tuscan
That film was memorable for other reasons. 🥵
Thanks Alex, very nice indeed.
Fantastic thank you. This is more like it!
World full of grey barges and you bring some colour sound and thrills. Phew!!!
0:58 Mjaaah? Who are you, Skeletor? 😂
Nice video as usual. And nice hybrid car 😉. I saw this summer a Sagscan or Tusgaris, I believe just a Tuscan with Sagaris body panels but this was not too bad either.
I've got a tuscan and it's brilliant and wouldn't swap for one of those..Great video
That shade of green is gorgeous! Green is my favorite color ever, and I love dark green and neon/lime green. They are beautiful colors
Agree about the steering wheel. The original Personal wheels are much nicer than that Momo one.
Wonderful and brilliant, amazing colour, lots of power totally love it and your review 😁
Would combining the Sagaris and Tamora the other way round be called a Tagaris I wonder? Bit like Tions and Ligers.
Reminds me of the Talbot Tagora.
Great to see another TVR video, my favourite
I'll never forget seeing a bright Orange one parked up with smoke/steam coming from the bonnet..Ha !! a Sagaris...whoops!
It was having a post coital smoke
10:07 Cue "Code Blue" by T.S.O.L.
That song really fits the personality of TVR too!
James, I had to report several bots in the comments for sexual content. I am wondering if I need to also report the whole video for this ludicrous and amazing TVR.
Sexual content is still appropriate
clearly a labour of love by the owner / builder. Definitely an interesting project.
Good vid! Much better paint job in grey than the lime green
The last TVR models were stunning with great exterior and interior design.
Looks and sounds terrific. Great colour too, might suit a distant future 944 project I’ve got in mind!
I'm not a fan of black alloys, but here they're spot on! It looks MEGA !!
couldn't one insert filters in those cut-outs on the bonnet? It would be cool to just know that atleast some air is getting through and they do atleast serve some purpose. However small that may be.
Always loved the Chimera. But a classic TVR like the Seac sounds awesome with the Rover V8
Wow! I never knew this even existed!! Fascinating! Btw. I like the exhaust!
that really looks like it was actually made by TVR. great job!
Got to love a straight 6 reminds me of a sweet sounding mk2 jag a bit..
Cool cut n shut.Fair play! Shame TVR never did it but to be honest all the T cars are basically the same. I remember them coming under quite a lot of criticism for having lots of models that where basically the same thing. They effectively cannibalised each others sales.
Fantastic work Alex.
This one I HAVE to watch! You are the TVR-man Jay.
Isn't the task of a TVR the same as that of the first Suzuki GSX-R 1100?
To scare the driver shit less and at the same time give them THE driving experience.
You forgot the murdering part 😂
@alexandermclaughlin3978 Correct! I was once considering buying a turbo-charged GSX-R 1100, that had actually achieved that task.
@@matslundstrom7763 Scarily many of them have 😳
Brilliant video. If you’d got Jeremy Clarksons old job at TopGear it might have survived. But we got a radio 2 DJ and a cricket player. Wonder why it went wrong😂
Woooo that big straight 6 sounds good
ive always thought of the later TVRs as kitcar dodge vipers... it makes sense that they are a little bit frightening.
TVR designs will be great for restomods.
I'm no TVR brand expert, but I believe the wheels are OEM, as fitted to the run-out Sagaris 2 cars, when it lost the side exit exhausts.
There’s just something about you and roadsters James 🤩😎🤩
I can't help myself
This reminds me back then in 2016, on Forza Horizon 3
It has a handbreak! It has a gear stick! It has 3 pedals! It has knobs and buttons!
I want one
That sound 😅. Love it. Amazing car and review
The British Viper. I’ve always loved the Sagaris. Blackpools best looking Ax Murderer.
Fabulous Car...thank you for the review.
I enjoy its uniqueness, right down to the odd pedal box configuration (looking like three accelerator pedals) and the stand-out colour is majestic in its insouciance. Now can I be fairer than that?
I'm just amazed as it is a TVR that it didn't burst into flame spontaneously.
Always loved TVR's and that is a work of art. Bet Clarkson would like it too.
LSD as standard on all the T cars. The upgrade was call the Hydratrack which may didn't like as the character on the limit was more unpleasant.
Love it, the color makes it even better.
Missed if you mentioned it; do the bonnet vents open and close or are they fixed?
I's say that verde mantis is also very fitting name for a color on this car. Mainly because it kinda looks like a mantis. (I am prepared for the whole internet to tell me to go to specsavers)
It really does, even the vents remind me of the barbs on a Mantis arms, it's perfecty matched.
I painted my Exige S in verde mantis - it is a beautiful colour
Just the sound of that engine alone is absolutely addicting! Unfortunately, I live in the US and there are no TVR dealers, and you have to wait until a car is 25 years old before you can import it anyway. However, is there a way I can purchase just a TVR engine and have it shipped over?
Hey mate, if no one has mentioned it, there's something real funky about the audio mix.
For me the TVR T350i is the most beautiful car they ever made!
I would say that the Tuscan is the most beautiful car they ever made. And the Tasmin is the coolest looking. Kind of like how the Miura is the most beautiful Lamborghini ever made and the Countach is the coolest looking Lamborghini.
they actually made a... chimaera
T350C is perfect shape, thought the sagaris was a halloween themed special 👻- maybe that was the point!
Nothing sounds as Sonorous as a TVR. Whether its the Rover V8, even the Flat V8 has it's own Unique sound but that Straight Six has such a Musical, Glorious Sound I'm not Surprised they turned the Volume Up!!
And which other V8 engines use a flat plane crank.Ferrari. At 4000 and higher rpm the Rover V8 howls sonorously.
Awesome car and a great review. Thank you.
Now I want it.
Fair play.
Great vid of a unique car. Something wonky going on with the audio though, as if some sort of overzealous normalizing algorithm is trying to deal with clipping.
That's how compression works, when the microphone is battling a mental Blackpool 6-pot and wind noise from a badly designed convertible 😂
that is wild. im a big 350 fan especially with that killer lexan ducktail. there was a British ganster movie that the lead guy drove and I cant remember the name of the movie. are you familiar. Im of uk heritage but born in the state and I love my British cars. this is awesome!!! cheers
You should review the TVR Tuscan!
Wonder what those beeps are in the at low speed. Anti stall? Radar? Even Jays audio sounds like it mutes something out every second or so. Its the little gremlins they have.
Do you think it would be comparable to the BBR V6 MX-5? If so, then I’m sure would be a lot more obtainable and not quite as costly
4:29 The "Free Hat" episode of South Park.
James will want to know about the blue Tuscaris (I think that is what the owner has called it) as this gives you Tuscan with a Sagaris exterior but stiffer as a targa rather than a convertible…
Avocado green......obviously the fastest 1970s bath tub ever moulded🤣
Someone once said that "If you don't feel like a TVR is trying to kill, you're not trying hard enough".
The exhaust needs turning down, get the back boxs repacked. Otherwise I think the car appears pretty amazing.
It was " build it and they will come" Mandela effect
Wayne’s world 2 also
@@AVM-Music yes, "They" interview "With" the Vampire and "In" the city . . . if you know you know right
It was clear enough to me in the 1990s that a TVR was not for me but I definitely enjoyed that they existed and I think the automotive world is a poorer place without them. It's a poorer place overall, compared to the 90s of course. The 90s was probably close to the apogee of automobile engineering in terms of internal combustion, transmission and suspension. What has followed has been the gradual transformation of cars into soulless, bloated, GBP 100.000 iPads with wheels. If TVR hadn't failed when it did it would certainly have gone under now or had to change its character beyond recognition to survive.
I've never before wanted to slide into a Trevor, but hey: now it happened
I wonder how loud it actually is when you described it that way. I've been in my mate's modded car and it's already loud enough when we're in it. Just hope that the pedestrians won't be cursing you too much I guess when you're driving this kind of cars lol
TVRs are crazy in a good way. That exhaust is a bit much; I'm glad Alex isn't my neighbour. :)
There's always something beautifully bonkers and brilliantly barking about any TVR, unfortunately here in Ireland just the road tax alone would be anywhere between 1800 to 2400 Euros per year, depending on model year.
One day though! 😉
It's going to take every ounce of self control I have not to want to import a Sagarus when they become legal in the US in several years. I've lusted over one ever since Jeremy Clarkson reviewed one on Top Gear. The only two things that might prevent me from doing so are the prices that keep going up, and the fact that I know it'll break, often, as TVRs do.
TY J! 🙏🙏. A rare beast indeed, & looking good! A Powers updated S6 engine can come with a 100k mile warranty.
"... and your choice of deity." 😂😂😂
Jesus take the wheel...
Also... Nice SG5 ;)
Love me some TVR
Nice looking car.
that is beautiful!
One of the most tricky handling cars and fits a set of budget tyres to it , makes no sense skimping in that area
Nice!!!!!
TVR are my alltime favourites sadly they never got to my country and im still a broke ah so...
.... this looks like created to abuse Dodge Viper...😁
In terms of buld approache somehow it reminds me prototype of Jaguar XK spider/roadster...🤔
Alex is my sort of automotive-MacGiver hero!
I love that car
What is happening with tvr currently ain't seen a new car in decades I heard they were making the Griffith but news has gone quiet
Dead and gone me thinks. As they are separate body/chassis these will be around for a lot longer. Being rebuildable.
@gairnmclennan5876 it's actually quite sad what's happened to them they made some lovely cars
Despite many aborted and half arsed attempts,it seems that there is still some interest in TVR from a business stand point, having owned 3 Chimaeras,a Griffith,3 tuscans ,a Tuscan S and 4 Cerbera's I would be happy to see a new TVR become a reality. I have a pal I got parts through,who used to be a part of the Peninsula team from Cornwall and still has an 'ear in'. Apparently something is definitely ongoing but he is reluctant to state much more than what's already public knowledge,that is that there will be a petrol and electric version launched simultaneously,The current backer is a Lithium mining company from Africa,TVR's required investment is quite substantial but chicken feed to them. There Various and rapidly changing rules regarding compliance are always going to be a stumbling block for a company like TVR.
@user-re6yo7tj5s I hope to see them back up and running again great cars lovely sound I'll keep my fingers crossed to see them soon
Good video 👍👍