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I was bored and came across this post in the What's New section of PistonHeads. It's titled 'RS4 Respect'. Those TVR owners are being very complimentary today !!

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topi ... %20Respect

TVRs are cool cars, but I always seem to pass them when there at the side of the road

Do they really msg all proper like that on that forum?

Some interesting comments on there,i personally like the fact that a fully loaded luxurious 4 door everyday car can hassle an out and out completely impracticle sunday only 2 seat plastic sports car! Ive had the pleasure of a cerbera in the dry but in the wet a train would be faster,there uselessly unpredictable bordering on dangerous given the state of uk roads,when im older i might consider one as a sunday car,id like to get one on the track i bet they would be awesome fun and plenty of trailers around should it break down

Tvr's now are pretty sorted - enough time has passed for certainly some cars to fail and be fixed properly by a specialist.

On any road other than a perfectly straight line, the rs4 will murder the tvr.
After taking a tuscan s on track the handling is by far the crackers if any car I've driven. Hard to brake in a straight line, stupidly fast steering racks, ridiculously long pedal travel and all round frightening. I'm sure that theoretically it coul be hustled fast but there's always that chance of a backwards fireball through to the pearly gates.

The accelerator pedal is more like a seasaw and about as much use,you almost have to stretch your foot flat to get it to full throttle,swift changes are an almost impossible,steering rack is very quick and luckily they have small not so friendly to use steering wheels!! The cabin is a thing of beauty but its only good for the eye! The weighting and non progressive throttle make them bloody awfull to drive around town,all that said they do sound awesome at full chat

Sometimes perfection is boring and people like cars with a few idiosyncrasies, bit of tinkering can be enjoyable.
As a daily driver however I'm not sure this is a good feature

Managed to keep within a few cars lengths of a teaked Tuscan a couple of weekends ago, it pulled distance on my at low revs but I made ground 5.5k rpm upwards in each gear.

I'd imagine you can get a lot of thrills from driving a TVR slowly, sadly I don't thats the case with our cars.
Maybe I am getting old

adsgreen wrote:Tvr's now are pretty sorted - enough time has passed for certainly some cars to fail and be fixed properly by a specialist.
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Really, I passed 3 en-route to Le Mans, all of which had broken down. Did make me chuckle.

refresh my memory, how many world performance car awards have TVRs won? LOL

Those kinds of awards are far to political for me. Plenty stunning cars have not won awards either.
Don't get me wrong, there's a lot to be said for having bonkers performance with no safety net. Noble m12 of the same vein.

My mate had a Sagaris which I thought looked and sounded the nuts. Very quick in a straight line but he always had problems round the twisties, particularly when slightly damp.

Only car I've ever driven when you'd lose the backend under straight line threshold braking and you *had* to heel n toe perfectly to even stand a chance of keeping the back wheels in check.