Tiger Cub or Tiger Cat?

[midge]

Hi there,

I'm switching from TVR to Tiger and am currently torn between a race tuned factory-built early 90's Tiger Cub and a privately built 2 year old Tiger Cat (milder tune for road use). I know the Cub fairly well as it's a neighbour's. Can anyone swing me towards a certain car? Budget around £5k by the way.

Many thanks.

[KITT]

I'd go with the Cat (not that I'm biased ). Seriously though, it's a newer car and should be in better nick than the Cub. Also I'm not a great fan of the Cub's nose, it just looks weird to me.

Main thing to look out for are the front suspension bushes. The Cat's (and Cub's I think) front suspension is a bit strange and the trailing arm bushe tends to ware out very quickly where it mounts to the chassis. If it's got poly bushes then that's a big bonus as it's a right hassle changing them later (see my website under mods). Other than that, their pretty simple cars and not really much to go wrong

[Wacky Racer]

Cat..

[mattstead]

If you go for the Cub, then make sure that the front suspension is looked over by Tiger, they did a recall regarding some part or other....this does not affect Cats though.

[traction]

Cub? Ugh! Ugly!

£5k will get you a more recent cat than an early 90s model.

In fact if you like the Super Six there's one just gone up for sale on the Tiger Owners Yahoo forum that's in your price range.

Ta.

>> Edited by traction on Thursday 20th May 14:11