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I love how even before it's started up it's showing -0.1 oil pressure. Implying in the finest of British engineering traditions, that it's leaking oil somewhere.
Yes! It is! Aw, I miss my C-Max, that 2l diesel was badass. Got a B-Max now with the 3 cylinder turbo and, yes, it's functionally a better car and it's fun to drive but it lacks snap
I will forever be sad there weren't more of those original V12s made, but at the same time i'm very happy projects like this are around, especially given the direct involvement of old TVR guys. I hope they make a buttload of new 7.7s, the dream finally realized!
As a kid growing up locally to TVR you have to put things in to context. The Bispham tip was opposite the factory. Rumors abounded that some of the test drivers were local traffic police (!?). I would ride my bike past stacks of OZ wheels while not realizing the atmosphere was very heavy with the glues and solvents being used to bond the cars into those beautiful shapes. To paraphrase Johnny Smith… it was the 90s.
The Aston 6.0 V12? Imagine if they went the supercharge route. You could still hear the V12 note properly ... power could've been down ... but the exhaust note could've been a seller with that titanium setup. What's better than a terrifying car with muddled whooshes? Slightly less terrifying alternative with loud screams and supercharger whine. (The above is taking into consideration if TR fails to reverse-engineer the 7.7 V12 and sticks with the AM 6.0)
I have had my 1999 Cerbera 4.5 for over 20 years and still love it! However, no wet driving as it is deadly with no ABS, so hate to think what a V12 is like around corners if you push it!
Had a original Cerbera and it was a nail. I even offered it to Jeremy Clarkson to destroy it on Top Gear. His wife at the time wrote me a lovely letter saying it made Jeremy laugh. It was one of the first. Still loved TVR and had 3 at the time. The Griffiss ? Was amazing.
I've had many TVR's, the Tanora, Tamsin, Tifoon, Cigaris, Serbera, Kimaera, but the Griffiss was the best. I loved them so much I never forgot how to spell them.
I've not seen Mike this scared before, I think the £1.2M is great value considering of what this car is, a small group of people in Blackpool building wild and insane cars like this, in this era... remind you of another group. If they can replicate the original 7.7 V12 this would be historic, maybe a supercharged or twin turbos as well. What a time!
Could be drag-limited. Not really sure why you specify final-drive since that applies across all gears. Maybe you mean gear-limited or redline-limited. But, this doesn't strike me as a wind-cheating design - especially with that huge wing.
@ build quality looks awful not sure about this over a Veyron. It’s a lot of money for essentially a kit car with a modified engine. You can make 1000hp manuals for significantly cheaper. Small turbos on a viper make 1000 easily. And you have a lot of money left over to spend on very high end parts around the car, even put full carbon fibre body panels on it if you wish and you’d still have change to spare. You’re paying a lot extra purely for the ‘fake’ TVR body shape.
I owned a Tuscan back in 2006 at the same time that I owned a 2.4 stroker Evo 7 with 800+hp.. and the Tuscan scared the crap out of me. The thing was dangerous.
I remember seeing this just before the pandemic on the road near the old tvr factory in bispham and also seeing a evo feature on it too.glad to see it's not stillborn.
Still have a mint condition copy of BBC TopGear Supercars Magazine Special Issue Summer 2001 (and another more used copy for reading pleasure), including a report of Tiff Needell driving the Cerbera Speed Twelve. (p.51 for Cerbera 4.5 vs a fighter jet, p.58 for the Speed Twelve experience). Since then (and after seeing a 4.5 Cerbera the same year myself), this is my favorite dream car of all time.
Mike is a nostalgic old sod and I love it. Izzy being a newbie alongside that is really helping DRIVETRIBE find such a unique identity. It reminds me of Men & Motors. Looking forward to seeing where it ends up.
This new re-imagining of the Cerbera Speed 12 is great, but I still prefer the original styling because there's just nothing quite like that crazy TVR body design.
Years back I knew some of the people behind Helical and they once had a side company that was working on car tuning. Those guys were absolute nuts (in a good way). Nice to see them well and truly back!
Really impressed with what they have accomplished, they have made a car that is just as stunning as the original and just as mental with the performance. Like that they went with a TT V12 rather than just go the easy route of throwing a LS V8 or something in there also. If they get that TVR V12 reproduced as well that would be the icing on the cake. Speed 12 was a almost mythical car so to see someone making new versions of it is epic.
What a truly insane car, you can hear how absolutely terrified Mike is with how frantically he screams when he's driving... Gotta love the Citroen C4 Cactus taillights😂The VW mirrors are slightly off-putting because they feel a little too modern for the rest of the car but whatever, it's a bonkers machine, huge props to the folks at Helical!!!
Peak Mike and Drive Tribe content! Nothing shall top this video. What an amazing showcase of brutally raw emotion and violence from an engine. Great work on editing too. The trio were mad to pass on this.
Would it really be a British shed built supercar if the thing didn't fall apart almost instantly after driving it? Absolutely insane piece of engineering. Welcome back Cerbera.
Imagine if there where several original Cerbera Speed 12 driving around. So sad they scrapped the project. This unicorn of a car has been one of my favourites since I first drove it in Grand Turismo 3. So legendary!
140mph and the bonnet comes loose. That's some real TVR energy there, you can't buy that. I remember seeing one of the Speed12 show car prototypes on a tour of the factory in 1996. I remember it being quite different looking, but still wild.
@@BillyTheSKID needs to be tight around his waist before he pulls the shoulder straps tight as he has it there if he has a crash he will just slide out of the bottom or destroy his ribs.
I went up against Peter Wheeler at Bruntingthorpe in the OG Speed 12 (the white one) when I was testing a then new Nissan Sunny GTiR. He definitely came past me on the straight at 200mph +
SEMA 2023, one of the only people to recognize the blue car, not only spoke at length to test driver, let me sit in it and gave me a shirt which I have preserved, never will forget it.
I’ve no particular passion for supercars; I’ll never have the money to own one, and I don’t know if I’ve got the skill to not bin one as soon as I get behind the wheel. But the Speed 12 was always the exception. Utterly gorgeous, utterly bonkers.
That 7.7 was a monster. I loved using it in Gran Turismo. Such a beast of a car. It was even fast in the Xbox: Test Drive other than the Ford GT and Dodge Viper GTSR
10/10 for being the only channel sponsored by Manscaped that I've ever seen wear the boxers. Now if only I could figure out how to get myself into one of those Speed 12s (without killing myself or the car). I'd like to work at or have a company like helical one day XD
Love TVR's can't wait to see more imported across the pond. It's also hilarious the hood/bonnet pops open a bit, English car brand employees, it's ok, keep doing 140+ you're safe 😂. I love my p38a so I say that with admiration
This car is badass as hell. Kick ass color too. I have a modified Vanquish Volante with some head work done, intake, Velocity AP headers and Quicksilver Titan exhaust, and custom tune. Makes just about 700hp to the wheels. This TT setup is looking great now
This car was way ahead of its time in the engine department. Absolutely wild that these guys just said "fuck it 7.7 liter V12" and then built the rest of it basically from lego bricks.
And, this is why the NASCAR Next-Gen racing cars never have 1,000 horsepower. If you put that much horsepower inside a racing car with rear-wheel drive, it is actually scary. That being said, the TR Speed 12 Turbo is an incredible piece of engineering. Just don't expect it to be safe and make sure you have some racing experience first.
I am very much on the fence. I love that it exists but something about the current proportions just doesn't sit right. The front end needs to be dragged down a bit I think. But what it stands for is brilliant!
A lot of car companies over the years have vanished and left nothing to really be remembered by but TVR created this monster and will never be forgotten.
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Yes! Please show us how Ben will be scared, angry and REALLY fast with this monster...
I NEED to see Ben in this.........@ Dunsfold
this IS a retorical question ? right ?
Yes
Absolutely
Glad to see the car is true to it's TVR roots and disassembles itself after ten minutes of use.
bespoke self-destruction
😂
It's called active weight reduction 🥂
Came here to say the same thing. Build quality still pure TVR 👌
"its"
I love how even before it's started up it's showing -0.1 oil pressure. Implying in the finest of British engineering traditions, that it's leaking oil somewhere.
This is an excellent observation.
Oil leaks is what makes it better
thats the rust prevention system doing it's job
It's so that if you come out one morning, and there's not an oil patch under the car, you know you've run out of oil.
I can't describe how much this comment made me laugh 😂
TVR is legendary, the only company in history that launched cars that were completely over the top and borderline undriveable
unlike lamborgini, Di Tomasso, Vector, they only made easy going vehicles with nothing unhinged about them
@@BobSmith-qq3igyeah… but… TVR
@@BobSmith-qq3igTVR is the car that made the guys that owned those cars wet there pants
@@BobSmith-qq3ig I suspect that Lamborgini took chassis development a little more seriously than the team at TreVoR.
Emphasis on the borderline undrivable.
Cerbera V12 TURBO is not an idea the world needed, but it's a bit better place when someone made it.
Absolute madmen, and godspeed for them.
Needs a supercharger too. Twin charge speed 12 🤯
There awaited ❤
Speed is not what they're going to need help with!
Handbrake is from a mk2 Ford C-Max (used to have one so very familiar) 2011 shape onwards, and rear lights are from a mk1 Citroen Cactus i believe
Had a similar one on my Volvo C30 I think... So yup should be a Ford/Volvo part :)
@@rogerwennstrom6677Just about to comment this looks like my old c30s handbrake
They were upside down cavalier tail lights on my Chimera 😂
I had a 2013 Focus ST and that had a similar handbrake to that too!
Yes! It is! Aw, I miss my C-Max, that 2l diesel was badass.
Got a B-Max now with the 3 cylinder turbo and, yes, it's functionally a better car and it's fun to drive but it lacks snap
13:07 i love how he turns EXTRA Scottish the moment he is truly terrified 🤣
TV Mode = OFF
The car scared him so much, his true Scottishness came out to shout down this English contraption.
I thought he was offering... encouragement, the way Clarkson used to in similar situations.
Oh how I miss TVR… they broke the rule book whilst creating some of the most beautiful cars in the world
I work with the team on this car. Looking forward to taking Car2 to Dunsfold!
is that the carwow runway by any chance ?
@TheCraigy83 no. Different one. Carwow use an old military runway that's about 2miles long. This was thurweston and is a lot shorter
Can I have a job? Only semi-joking
@liamyates5544 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Loved how you guys leaned into the fact that it's a turbo instead of trying to hide it; feels old school
I could almost feel the joy and fear you felt driving this car through the screen, nothing but raw emotion, Love it Mike! Thank you.
I bet the screaming did help with that quite a bit..
I will forever be sad there weren't more of those original V12s made, but at the same time i'm very happy projects like this are around, especially given the direct involvement of old TVR guys.
I hope they make a buttload of new 7.7s, the dream finally realized!
It's got the build quality of my old TVR 350i........therefore it's a proper T(V)R lol.
A proper tvrd
The Cerbera is legit my favorite supercar of all time. So glad someone is continuing it's legacy.
As a kid growing up locally to TVR you have to put things in to context. The Bispham tip was opposite the factory. Rumors abounded that some of the test drivers were local traffic police (!?). I would ride my bike past stacks of OZ wheels while not realizing the atmosphere was very heavy with the glues and solvents being used to bond the cars into those beautiful shapes. To paraphrase Johnny Smith… it was the 90s.
2:43 Those are some Citroen C4 Cactus taillights. Nice.
I'm really looking forward to the day when we can get a proper TR Hypercar with that monstrous 7.7-liter NA V12 engine! 🤞🏼🤗
Thats a dreamcar if I ever saw one... Beautiful!!!!! And I'd LOVE to see Ben wrestle with one of these!
American here who loves the amazing cars that are made all over the world. Drive a heavily modded NB Miata daily. The wheels are gorgeous
The Aston 6.0 V12? Imagine if they went the supercharge route.
You could still hear the V12 note properly ... power could've been down ... but the exhaust note could've been a seller with that titanium setup.
What's better than a terrifying car with muddled whooshes? Slightly less terrifying alternative with loud screams and supercharger whine.
(The above is taking into consideration if TR fails to reverse-engineer the 7.7 V12 and sticks with the AM 6.0)
Would be even better with a Ferrari 6.5, race exahaust and custom mapping. Lighter, better sound and no turbos to worry about!
@ventisette. yea, but Ferrari 6.5 ain't easy to come by ... only Apollo IE managed to get hold of few i.e 10 Ferrari 6.3 F140 V12s for 10 Apollo IE
@@SayakMajumder I think these guys will be lucky to sell 10 cars
@@ventisette. yea pretty niche project
I have had my 1999 Cerbera 4.5 for over 20 years and still love it! However, no wet driving as it is deadly with no ABS, so hate to think what a V12 is like around corners if you push it!
Amazing. Now we need a Lister Storm like this.
Yes!
Had a original Cerbera and it was a nail.
I even offered it to Jeremy Clarkson to destroy it on Top Gear. His wife at the time wrote me a lovely letter saying it made Jeremy laugh.
It was one of the first.
Still loved TVR and had 3 at the time. The Griffiss ? Was amazing.
I've had many TVR's, the Tanora, Tamsin, Tifoon, Cigaris, Serbera, Kimaera, but the Griffiss was the best. I loved them so much I never forgot how to spell them.
You weren't even born when the Cerbera came out or ended.
I've not seen Mike this scared before, I think the £1.2M is great value considering of what this car is, a small group of people in Blackpool building wild and insane cars like this, in this era... remind you of another group. If they can replicate the original 7.7 V12 this would be historic, maybe a supercharged or twin turbos as well. What a time!
Mike 218mph has to be a function of final drive ratio. 1000hp is plenty to trouble an F1. Wild thing!
Could be drag-limited. Not really sure why you specify final-drive since that applies across all gears. Maybe you mean gear-limited or redline-limited. But, this doesn't strike me as a wind-cheating design - especially with that huge wing.
The more scared he got, the more Scottish he got.
1.2 mil for essentially a high end kit car. fair play it's probably built to order extremely low production but damn
I'd rather have this than a Bugatti though. Manual too
@ build quality looks awful not sure about this over a Veyron. It’s a lot of money for essentially a kit car with a modified engine. You can make 1000hp manuals for significantly cheaper. Small turbos on a viper make 1000 easily. And you have a lot of money left over to spend on very high end parts around the car, even put full carbon fibre body panels on it if you wish and you’d still have change to spare. You’re paying a lot extra purely for the ‘fake’ TVR body shape.
1.2m for an engine with some car temporarily attached to it?
Pass.
Over the years, I’m starting to realize most supercars are just collectors or show off. This is a real car you buy to tame or die. Fantastic..
O M G ! TVR are soooo bad ass and gorgeous. It is like a great white shark. Majestic, beautiful,graceful and insanely badass and scary
This is just mega. Props to that crew for making these things.
I love the Kenyan flag next to your watch. Much love, we're watching.
I owned a Tuscan back in 2006 at the same time that I owned a 2.4 stroker Evo 7 with 800+hp.. and the Tuscan scared the crap out of me. The thing was dangerous.
I remember seeing this just before the pandemic on the road near the old tvr factory in bispham and also seeing a evo feature on it too.glad to see it's not stillborn.
One of my favorite episodes so far. So awesome.
Still have a mint condition copy of BBC TopGear Supercars Magazine Special Issue Summer 2001 (and another more used copy for reading pleasure), including a report of Tiff Needell driving the Cerbera Speed Twelve. (p.51 for Cerbera 4.5 vs a fighter jet, p.58 for the Speed Twelve experience).
Since then (and after seeing a 4.5 Cerbera the same year myself), this is my favorite dream car of all time.
Love that they kept the original tvr build quality
16:26 they found and brought original 7.7 speed 12 v12 engine🤤🤤🤤🤤
Mike is a nostalgic old sod and I love it. Izzy being a newbie alongside that is really helping DRIVETRIBE find such a unique identity.
It reminds me of Men & Motors. Looking forward to seeing where it ends up.
This new re-imagining of the Cerbera Speed 12 is great, but I still prefer the original styling because there's just nothing quite like that crazy TVR body design.
Years back I knew some of the people behind Helical and they once had a side company that was working on car tuning. Those guys were absolute nuts (in a good way). Nice to see them well and truly back!
Really impressed with what they have accomplished, they have made a car that is just as stunning as the original and just as mental with the performance.
Like that they went with a TT V12 rather than just go the easy route of throwing a LS V8 or something in there also.
If they get that TVR V12 reproduced as well that would be the icing on the cake.
Speed 12 was a almost mythical car so to see someone making new versions of it is epic.
0:08 The only way I can envision properly driving a Speed 12. 👊🏼
HE'S FINALLY DRIVING IT!!!!!!! YESSSS MIKE!!!!!!!!
What a truly insane car, you can hear how absolutely terrified Mike is with how frantically he screams when he's driving... Gotta love the Citroen C4 Cactus taillights😂The VW mirrors are slightly off-putting because they feel a little too modern for the rest of the car but whatever, it's a bonkers machine, huge props to the folks at Helical!!!
12:05 i think Mike had a 'crisis' right there
Britain makes some of the best looking cars
'Unhinged' describes both the bonnet AND driving experience. It's the authentic TVR experience!
Would have loved to see this thing go racing along with the Ferrari F50 GT. Two "what could have been" unicorns
If they put the original 7.7 it would be so cool.
It’s still pretty cool but it really wants the 7.7 maybe with twin turbo aswel
I wish this company nothing but success! These wild cars are a dream! If I EVER had this kind of money, I would absolutely get one
Peak Mike and Drive Tribe content! Nothing shall top this video. What an amazing showcase of brutally raw emotion and violence from an engine. Great work on editing too. The trio were mad to pass on this.
Would it really be a British shed built supercar if the thing didn't fall apart almost instantly after driving it? Absolutely insane piece of engineering. Welcome back Cerbera.
The dump valves sound like whip cracks, it's incredible
Love seeing Mike so hyped man I can feel the energy through the screen
😱 It's Jackson Storm!
I'm enjoying the car and the tissot prx is a lovely touch too. Matt is a man of exquisite taste 👌
The turbo dump, tsshh, sounds like ED-209 from Robocob
Imagine if there where several original Cerbera Speed 12 driving around. So sad they scrapped the project.
This unicorn of a car has been one of my favourites since I first drove it in Grand Turismo 3.
So legendary!
the beast is back
140mph and the bonnet comes loose. That's some real TVR energy there, you can't buy that. I remember seeing one of the Speed12 show car prototypes on a tour of the factory in 1996. I remember it being quite different looking, but still wild.
The handbrake seems to be from a Renault Megane since you asked ahah also the taillights look like the ones in a Citroen C4 Cactus
10:35 that harness buckle on your sternum makes me worried! Wouldn't want to feel that one the next morning.....
Seriously! Driving a 1000hp car with the harness like that. Any sort of accident and he’ll be a pile of flesh and broken bones in the footwell
@petermoore1708 yep. He'll go full Hunt for red October!
@@petermoore1708how should he put it ?
@@BillyTheSKID needs to be tight around his waist before he pulls the shoulder straps tight as he has it there if he has a crash he will just slide out of the bottom or destroy his ribs.
Love that this exists, and is from TVR’s hometown. Let’s hope TR cars become what TVR would have been.
This is awesome. I'm slightly jaded about a lot of new cars but this put a smile on my face. Bring on the 7.7!
I went up against Peter Wheeler at Bruntingthorpe in the OG Speed 12 (the white one) when I was testing a then new Nissan Sunny GTiR. He definitely came past me on the straight at 200mph +
One best video of 2024. So glad to see T(V)R, always been fan of this company. Mad design with mad power proper British engineering.....
I haven't teared up in a long time for a car - the original Speed 12 makes it's return 15:31
SEMA 2023, one of the only people to recognize the blue car, not only spoke at length to test driver, let me sit in it and gave me a shirt which I have preserved, never will forget it.
I’ve no particular passion for supercars; I’ll never have the money to own one, and I don’t know if I’ve got the skill to not bin one as soon as I get behind the wheel.
But the Speed 12 was always the exception. Utterly gorgeous, utterly bonkers.
That 7.7 was a monster. I loved using it in Gran Turismo. Such a beast of a car. It was even fast in the Xbox: Test Drive other than the Ford GT and Dodge Viper GTSR
Cerbera Speed 12 is one of my greatest dream cars, it's NA engine breaking dynos. Thanks for the grerat video.
That hand break looks similar to the knee used in the MK3 Focus (and I think the MK7 Fiesta)
Definitely true to the TVR roots in the fact that it cant drive in a straight line without falling to pieces
This was fun. Felt like an episode of old TopGear.
Thanks!
I love it! I totally want one! Thank you.
i always were very intrigued by tvr's...this is pretty badass. not as badass as it will be with a legit worked up 7.7l engine.
10/10 for being the only channel sponsored by Manscaped that I've ever seen wear the boxers. Now if only I could figure out how to get myself into one of those Speed 12s (without killing myself or the car). I'd like to work at or have a company like helical one day XD
It’s just dawned on me, that there is a chance I’ll be listening to Mike talk about/ review cars for the rest of my life… and I’m okay with that👏👏👏
Great to see something never change. My Tucan bonnet can pop over a ton. You can take the car out of TVR but you can’t take TVR out of this car.😂
I really want more games than just Gran Turismo to feature TVRs, they're just so unique and I love how they look.
Also the TR
None of those V12 wail we used to hear from modern V12s, it's a proper barrel-chested 50cal old-school V12 bark. Befitting the TVR character.
Tvrs will always hold a place in my heart
Growing up in a tamora is what spurred my love for cars
Welcome back TVR, we are so glad you're back in the business of making suicide assistance alternative to a lethal injection
With this car you dont need to wait 30 years to be able to do a top gear cheap car challange. It falls apart straight from the factory :)
LOL. Thirty+ years ago, my mate used to take me to pub in his Montego Turbo at over 130 MPH! I don't recollect either of us screaming!
Montego turbo 😍🥰
Pure emotion from Mike, something an electric car could never deliver
Love TVR's can't wait to see more imported across the pond. It's also hilarious the hood/bonnet pops open a bit, English car brand employees, it's ok, keep doing 140+ you're safe 😂. I love my p38a so I say that with admiration
Mike - ya needed to do a Hammond and shout 'I am a driving GOD!' well done fella 😛😛
This car is badass as hell. Kick ass color too. I have a modified Vanquish Volante with some head work done, intake, Velocity AP headers and Quicksilver Titan exhaust, and custom tune. Makes just about 700hp to the wheels. This TT setup is looking great now
Nothing like an old school tubro engine. The sound of them is just so much more visceral than anything today
This car was way ahead of its time in the engine department. Absolutely wild that these guys just said "fuck it 7.7 liter V12" and then built the rest of it basically from lego bricks.
c4 cactus tail lights fire on a TVR
And, this is why the NASCAR Next-Gen racing cars never have 1,000 horsepower. If you put that much horsepower inside a racing car with rear-wheel drive, it is actually scary. That being said, the TR Speed 12 Turbo is an incredible piece of engineering. Just don't expect it to be safe and make sure you have some racing experience first.
Citroen cactus tail lights?🤔
Greetings from Portugal! That handbrake design I think it came from the Mercedes SLR R171. Cheer!
I gave it a thumbs up just for Mike's willingness to risk his life to create content!
Had goosebumps wathcing this. Those dump valves 🫣
I am very much on the fence. I love that it exists but something about the current proportions just doesn't sit right. The front end needs to be dragged down a bit I think. But what it stands for is brilliant!
This was the pick me up that I needed after last nights nonsense. Thank you! Hello from the USA.
The look of sheer terror and then excitement is too much fun!
A lot of car companies over the years have vanished and left nothing to really be remembered by but TVR created this monster and will never be forgotten.