Classic: TVR Sagaris
Posted on 04-06-2016 to 18:00 by larssb – 39 Comments”
The best British sportcoupé ever. Because everything is right: he is unsafe, too fast and unpredictable, falls apart, makes a tank noise and doesn’t make sense. All the reasons to have such a completely insane TVR Sagaris. If you’ve got the bollocks.
And shit on everything. Because that was also the idea behind the Sagaris. Each consensus, all appointments, rules, habits, laws and decency went overboard in the design of the Sagaris. To the extent that a sophisticated design was required was; the wolf in wolfskleren had no purpose other than rude loud, attract attention and noise. How, that didn’t matter. So no one other than the crazy TVR could this car build. Seemingly out of the loose wrist and with a lot of penetrant scented adhesive, but in any case, without wind tunnels, and especially not months-long test sessions. Did the buyers soon.
Actually it was the Sagaris designed for long afstandsraces, on the basis of the T350. Lee Hodgetts and Graham Browne designed in 2003 under the leadership of TVR boss Peter Wheeler the original racevariant, this evolved into the production version, which in 2005 came on the market. Although, to evolve… The rows ventilatiebulten on top of the flanks, there were just still in it, they were only close. The other openings and ventilation holes, and that there were quite a few, were also unchanged from the molds and gave the Sagaris are savage and prevent quite a few promised. It finally ended up raceversie with a few minor adjustments on the street. Where the fear immediately, well wrapped.
Because what violence unleashed the Sagaris. Not only visually, also under the hood, all hell broke loose as the gas it went. There gruntte TVR’s own Speed Six 4.0 litre 400 HP through a manual vijfbak to the rear wheels. With a car weight of 1100 KG was found by his appearance, not hot air: within 4 seconds was the 100 on the clocks. Globally at least, the whole of the TVR’s also had the speedometer a ludicrous scale, and drove you in miles than about 5. Or something like that. The top speed was a terrifying 298 km/h. Not alien, but in a TVR quite an adventure. If the glue is just as strong as the fragrance remains-ie might be quite.
That is to hope, what an amazing device! That asymmetrical styling of the roof for example: for right-hand drive versions, there was only a bump in the roof above the driver. So a helmet could wear, again, such a wonderful thing out of its intended racing career. The 12 the lhd versions had logically………no hump in the roof. TVR-logic. Or, much aardser, an ordinary saving on a extra dakmal. To ingenious uitlaatbochten was also not a lot of money spent out of the beautiful ass crossed two huge chutes straight to both sides. With a lot of acceleration you could get with those utlra-exhaust outlets a nice game of blaasvoetballen. But with pedestrians.
A little rude of course, that you do not and you also have your attention plenty of need to get everything in line. Very wise, because the Sagaris knew exactly one safety system: don’t crash. According to Peter Wheeler, the only system that really works, and there is no pin in between to get. Then you have no airbags, ABS, traction or stability control is needed. That was missing all that woesteling from Blackpool. But you got back an incomprehensible spoiler on the back, made of plexiglas. The thing stood upright, so, whether it’s an air brake or a clever solution to avoid the bits ‘n pieces after loosening the pavement ended, we will never know for sure.
And we also want to not at all. We just wanted to enjoy his outrageous styling, his irascible character, his messy construction, the particular ergonomics with hidden and unreachable buttons, that huge noise, and especially the myth surrounding it. Because one says that it is a great driving iron, the other thinks it’s a dangerous crazy. They are probably both right.
Only 180 unconventional lucky knew how to get a new Sagaris in reality behaved, in 2006, rolled back the last been the now jolting and bumping band. TVR could also themselves so, gradually, hardly at each other with adhesives. The nice, but quite mad car manufacturers had the heavy and the special business was further eroded by a Russian kid with too much money. New owner Smolensky cut off the company, despite his promise to the state and especially the British to keep on in disjointed chunks. In 2008, it was still called the Sagaris 2 announced, but that was it. Thundering silence. But wait… There is hope again: the buzzes and rumbles again in Blackpool. Fingers crossed.
It won’t be easy, a worthy successor to this lunatic . The car was built with but one philosophy: because it can. Also no pin in between to get.
Gallery: TVR Sagaris
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