Lovely looking car. I had a drop head Tasmin a few years ago. The Wedge was designed by Oiliver Winterbottom, who also designed the Lotus Elite and Eclat. He definitely had a thing for sharp lines and wedges.
The Ford 2.8 V6 with Injection really doesn't have much power between 2000-3000 rpm . It's tuned to give power higher up in the rev range. At 4000 rpm the exhaust note changes and the engine wakes up. This was one of the criticism when Ford switched from the 3.0 Essex engine (torque low down) to the 2.8 injection.
One of the things about all the TVRs is that they may have had some really weird ways of doing things, but one thing about all of them is that the view out of them is pretty much always really good. From this video you can see how good it is, but even the Chimaeras and Griffiths were really easy to see out of. Much, much better than the Porsche 924/944 where I felt I was down at sill height and had to peer over everything to see out.
Great video. The memeories, my Dad had one but very briefly. He wanted a grand tourer as he would travel huge miles. It was a Mk 1, and he found it was hard to drive, and unrelaible. He ended up selling it and a Lotus Elite (In what I called dog poo brown as a kid), which was actually more relaible and easier to drive. I wish either of these cars had been kept and handed down to me.
You need to drive a later v8 car the early v6 are cable clutch and different rear suspension the later have better suspension and a more powerful v8 it changes the experience some what. 👍🏻
Ive got a ropey 350i 1987, running gear is solid, paint could do with a going over and hood rubbers have seen better days, but the noise will wake the dead and performance would run rings round the Tasmin, hit me up if you would like to make a video. A fellow Scotsman@RetroRatchet
Hi Mark, hope all is well with you two. Yes it's mine, still, but I will be putting it up for sale when we get back of holiday as storage is a problem plus it's not getting used enough.
Nice video, but is it correct to put it down for not wanting to go out on a b road blast, just because it has a Ford V6. We don't really need to compare with newer bigger engine cars surely. I mean back when the Capri 2.8i was new, that would've been the one to have to go out for a blast & leave many other cars behind.
yeah, as that's the theme of the video, its not to do with what the power plant is, I recently done a 1.6 cortina which I personally would prefer for an evening blast around after work.. so not about outright bhp im afraid.
A bit of Peter Hook bassy start. Love it and Brilliant review. 😊
Sounded like Hook playing Altered Image's 'I could be happy' to me.
Lovely looking car. I had a drop head Tasmin a few years ago. The Wedge was designed by Oiliver Winterbottom, who also designed the Lotus Elite and Eclat. He definitely had a thing for sharp lines and wedges.
Looks like an ugly version of the Supra. Also the Supra had a Targa. This does not.
The Ford 2.8 V6 with Injection really doesn't have much power between 2000-3000 rpm . It's tuned to give power higher up in the rev range. At 4000 rpm the exhaust note changes and the engine wakes up. This was one of the criticism when Ford switched from the 3.0 Essex engine (torque low down) to the 2.8 injection.
Very similar in style and shape to the old 2.8 supra.not feeling the colour of the interior as nice as it it is.bit of a pavement princess.
Agree with the interior, I think it would look much better if the exterior is white...if you know what I mean lol
One of the things about all the TVRs is that they may have had some really weird ways of doing things, but one thing about all of them is that the view out of them is pretty much always really good. From this video you can see how good it is, but even the Chimaeras and Griffiths were really easy to see out of. Much, much better than the Porsche 924/944 where I felt I was down at sill height and had to peer over everything to see out.
Nice video. Great looking car but no real engine noise that we all want to hear from a TVR. Great comment - 'you will break down' Ha ha !!
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Haven’t seen one of those in decades
Great video. The memeories, my Dad had one but very briefly. He wanted a grand tourer as he would travel huge miles. It was a Mk 1, and he found it was hard to drive, and unrelaible. He ended up selling it and a Lotus Elite (In what I called dog poo brown as a kid), which was actually more relaible and easier to drive. I wish either of these cars had been kept and handed down to me.
you have any pics you can share of the tvr?
Chris, these vids are really good, bring back lots of memories
cheers
You need to drive a later v8 car the early v6 are cable clutch and different rear suspension the later have better suspension and a more powerful v8 it changes the experience some what. 👍🏻
yeah, that would be nice to drive of those too.
Ive got a ropey 350i 1987, running gear is solid, paint could do with a going over and hood rubbers have seen better days, but the noise will wake the dead and performance would run rings round the Tasmin, hit me up if you would like to make a video. A fellow Scotsman@RetroRatchet
That's Ken's, or was. Haven't seen him in ages.
yeah that's right,
Hi Mark, hope all is well with you two. Yes it's mine, still, but I will be putting it up for sale when we get back of holiday as storage is a problem plus it's not getting used enough.
Nice video, but is it correct to put it down for not wanting to go out on a b road blast, just because it has a Ford V6. We don't really need to compare with newer bigger engine cars surely. I mean back when the Capri 2.8i was new, that would've been the one to have to go out for a blast & leave many other cars behind.
yeah, as that's the theme of the video, its not to do with what the power plant is, I recently done a 1.6 cortina which I personally would prefer for an evening blast around after work.. so not about outright bhp im afraid.