Well I just went to town in the Z with the targas out, was a lovelly drive.

 

On the way back, I had to go via the motorway because I couldn't get out of town by the normal roads. Coming off the motorway the road is 30mph, which I was obeying, a TVR Tuscan however decided he wasn't and overtook me, about half a mile further down the road, it changes to national speed limit, at which point I downed to second, floored it and after the first corner saw the TVR.

 

Within a few corners I had caught the Tuscan up, he obviously wasn't as sure of his car in the corners as I was of mine, he was still accelerating on the straights however. A corner or two more and I'm right behind the Tuscan, coming out of a left hand bend, I can see about a mile in front of us and there's nothing coming, at around 40, the gears went down to second again and the loud pedal got squished. The rest is obvious, including the look on the TVR owners face :D

 

God I love Z's.

Nope it was the V8 full fat version but the Zed isn't standard so that may be the reasoning behind it ;)

 

They didn't make a V8 Tuscan only SP6 4.0 & Redrose :blushing:

 

Tuscans are well known in TVR circles as a bit unpredictable handling wise, althogh fitting Nitrons or alike will transfrom the car. Scariest car to drive in the wet, plenty of respect given in the dry as well, as so many of the Cerb and Tuscans require a first class setup on the suspension & geo or they will bite back and throw you in a ditch. Having had the car corner weighted etc it handeld like a dream and would give many more modern sport cars a good run around the twisty's! Regret the day I sold the Cerb.. classic V8 coupe with striking looks and a unique pedigree.... and know the don't break down.:lol:

 

When the came out they had Ferrari performance while costing half as much 50k. But the 3/4/5 owners didn't expect there 15k performace to car to cost nearly as much to run as say a Porsche or Ferrari and slowly like most performance car develop expensive and reliability problems.

 

So if looked after "properly" and serviced by the book TVR can be a reliable every day car. YOu just need to service by the book and fix any niggle ASAP before it turns into major/expensive problem.

I'd love a TVR, if for nothing other than the noise!

 

Racing on the roads is a bit pointless, its all down to the bottle and stupidity of the driver.

 

Ive been on track in my old 328, and a tuscan was there, not anywhere near as fast as i expected it to be. Still faster than me tho!

 

Well, to be honest whats on paper doesnt necessarily = real world driving conditions, just look at the mclaren f1 vs veyron video from topgear, on paper the veyron should of beat the mclaren off the line at 2.6 seconds to 60, vs the mclarens 3.1 seconds. yet the video clearly shows that the mclaren left it off the line.

 

 

 

Simply due to the hot environment in which the head to head took place

 

Hot air (higher charge temps) + 4 turbos = significantly slower Veyron than if it were driven in cooler climate

 

McLaren F1 (NA) = faster off the line

Wow, this thread is a year old!

I remember tho.

Those V8 Cerberas are dead fast - IIRC they can do 0-100mph in around 10 seconds!! That would waste almost anything you're likely to meet on the road.

 

But, most of them probably break down before they hit 60......:innocent:

 

Richard:thumbup1:

 

Correct me if I am wrong (and I nearly always am lol) but I am sure I saw on an episode of Top Gear a few years ago that at one point they were the fastest accelerating production car in the world! :)

It wasn't in the world! Just what they had there on that day, beating a 911 Turbo!

I've still got a Top Gear VHS tape somewhere where an uber permed Jeremy Clarkson lines up a number of 'modern' super cars for a straight line shootout and it's a Lotus V8 that wipes the floor with the rest of the field. I can't remember if there was a TVR amongst them though?

It wasn't in the world! Just what they had there on that day, beating a 911 Turbo!

 

Told you I would be wrong! :)

I've still got a Top Gear VHS tape somewhere where an uber permed Jeremy Clarkson lines up a number of 'modern' super cars for a straight line shootout and it's a Lotus V8 that wipes the floor with the rest of the field. I can't remember if there was a TVR amongst them though?

 

Yeah thats right, it was a Top Gear video I had for Xmas. There was a 911, Lotus V8, TVR Cerbera, Aston Martin, Caterham (maybe?) and others :)

This clip (not Top Gear and I think a few years later down the line) shows a similar lineup but this time it's the TVR that comes out on top....

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMy0PdIiXW0

The cerbera won that race. I whiped the floor with the rest of the cars.

I'd love a TVR, if for nothing other than the noise!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSlkKO-ERD0

 

Awesome....

god i want a tt so bad..im getting caught with civic type-rs which isnt to shabby but a car looking as good as a zed really shoulnt

Ah, school boy error there..

 

You see, you assume that Top Gear are actually interested in making factually correct programmes, which they catagorically aren't. Although I concede that the hot ambient temperatures would affect a turbo engine greater than a N/A motor, it wouldn't make up the near 1 second (0-60) difference between Mac and Bug. Nope, that was Top Gear trickery at its best. Just to make it more of a spectacle. The Veyron doesn't need all 1000bhp to hit 60 mph, it needs it for top speed - an 800bhp Bug would still hit 60 mph in well under 3 secs, mainly due to it being 4 wheel drive.

 

Never, ever believe what you see on top gear.. it's pure shite (mostly).

Let's not forget one small factor (3:29) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlbssmzttlM

 

 

where Dudley Moore announces "I'll shall be in the Veyron...."

 

 

so we've got a floppy haired midget who struggles to see over the steering wheel (he really is that small by the way) driving the Veyron and we've got Mr Stiglett driving the F1, all things being equal it's going the Stig's way....but all things aren't equal and the Veyron pulls it back after a shoddy start

 

so in order to get an accurate comparrison you need the same driver, driving each car down the same stretch of tarmac under the same conditions

The zed dosnt excite me much to be totally honest lol!!!!

 

 

Sheep ? lol