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Old Dec 12, 2003 | 09:55 PM
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Old Dec 12, 2003 | 09:57 PM
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Old Dec 12, 2003 | 10:17 PM
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Old Dec 12, 2003 | 10:32 PM
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Surely this has to be a joke. It's so f**king ugly (mind you, Damian McTaggart has left TVR now -- he did the Cerb, Tuscan and T350). Surely exhausts that come out of the back then turn sideways have to be sub-optimal.

Compare to the elegance of this:
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Old Dec 12, 2003 | 11:06 PM
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Looks like some sort of horrendous Veilside bodykit
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Old Dec 12, 2003 | 11:09 PM
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Good call! But as someone pointed out on Pistonheads, if you were to do the "manufacturers' names" thing down the front wing -- those stickers that go:
Veilside
Mugen Power
be improved by Sard
5Zigen
Toyo Tyres
etc.

then on a TVR you'd have to put:
Ford
Vauxhall
Lucas
Halfords

I want to replace the orange front indicators on my Cerb with clear ones. I know the side repeaters are from a Mk3 Fiesta, but I found out today the front ones are from a Scorpion tank!
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Old Dec 12, 2003 | 11:11 PM
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WTF is that back end all about?

That's nasty and looks plain ****.
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Old Dec 12, 2003 | 11:27 PM
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Oh FFS it looks like an explosion in an Airfix factory..

WTF where they thinking about?... somebody took to many drugs whilst watching batman [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

TVR have made some sexy cars but this is dire...
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Old Dec 13, 2003 | 12:52 AM
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Looks like they had nothing new and tarted up the T350...
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Old Dec 13, 2003 | 12:58 AM
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TVR's are just kit cars..God knows how the glue keeps them together in the wet??
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Old Dec 13, 2003 | 01:00 AM
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It's mastic, actually
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Old Dec 13, 2003 | 11:40 AM
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it looks like an explosion in an Airfix factory
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Old Dec 13, 2003 | 12:42 PM
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Like all TVR's best to be avoided....

You cannot blame them for raiding other peoples parts bin, costs a fortune to design and engineer items such as indicators...
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Old Dec 13, 2003 | 01:34 PM
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It's motor show time. TVR have a tradition of creating these sort of beasties. Not such a daft thing to do, when you consider that the more outlandish it looks, the more chance they have of getting £5-6 million worth of free full page advertising in the national & motoring press.
Obviously they've had to go some this year to top that MG monster
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Old Dec 13, 2003 | 01:36 PM
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PS I think it looks quite It looks no worse than a lotus exige plus it's less likely to leak/breakdown etc.
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Old Dec 13, 2003 | 01:53 PM
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**** my boots!
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Old Dec 13, 2003 | 02:06 PM
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Thank god atleast 1 car company has the ***** to do something different, theres bits I like and bits I don't like, those wheels are really nice.
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It looks no worse than a lotus exige plus it's less likely to leak/breakdown etc
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Old Dec 13, 2003 | 03:24 PM
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I think the TVR range are utter RAW, u have to have ***** to drive one...........no ABS or traction control...............with that trying to hold down 400+bhp in the rain.............mental!!!!


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Old Dec 13, 2003 | 03:27 PM
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Sorry, but thats just silly.
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Old Dec 13, 2003 | 03:32 PM
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TVR are "trying" to match that MG car (the tunable one).


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Old Dec 13, 2003 | 03:51 PM
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Thank god atleast 1 car company has the ***** to do something different, theres bits I like and bits I don't like, those wheels are really nice...
Here here! Yes different, but in the right direction. However if you look at Subaru, that new nose for the B11something (can't remember the name), well that is something different and unfortunately in the wrong direction!.
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Old Dec 13, 2003 | 04:48 PM
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Daz34, Sorry I meant to say SLIGHTLY less likely to leak/breakdown etc

Aren't the wheels the same as those on a Red Rose Tuscan?
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Old Dec 13, 2003 | 05:01 PM
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Well i think it looks the bizz .....just a done up T350C though...Rear under tray looks like the one from the speed 12

I would have one and I would have another TVR tomorrow. A great car manufacturer and something to be proud of, there aint many UK manufacturers left.
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Old Dec 13, 2003 | 05:59 PM
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Yep, wheels look like 18" anthracite Spiders.
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Old Dec 13, 2003 | 06:52 PM
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it looks like TVR have re-designed the Batmobile
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Old Dec 13, 2003 | 07:31 PM
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It does look like a bit of a dog's dinner, but I wouldn't kick it out of bed to get to a Scooby
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Old Dec 13, 2003 | 10:10 PM
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I reckon that looks the dogs danglies from the front, but the back............jeez!! urgh!
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Old Dec 14, 2003 | 09:59 PM
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Its not at all silly, the car had been designed for one purpose only. Its a homologation car, they have designed it primarily to convert easily into a race car. Aerodynamically there's not much you can to a basic road car to improve it for racing, so TVR decided to build a road car with all the splitters, spoilers and vents on the car in the first place. Its looks have come about purely to win on the race track, but even so I think it looks the dogs bollox as a road car.
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Old Dec 14, 2003 | 10:32 PM
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I agree with Matt85, does look like a Batmobile. Though it also looks kind of "crashed" too. Hopefully it'll look better in the flesh.

Not sure about the front lights either; look like a cross between the Blobeye and the Smart Roadster...
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