Sagaris specs

[the pits]

This is the latest on Sagaris specs (as of today).
There won't be interior body colour panels anymore. Interiors will be basically as per t350/tamora. No bad thing in my view.

Gas discharge lights, close ratio box, hydratrack, air-con, sat-nav, electric lumbar adjust seats, are the extra cost options. Full leather is standard.

19" wheels are thought not to be happening but 18" spiders are standard.

[WhirlingDERVish]

OK forgive me 'cos I'm not mechanically minded, but I thought the Sagaris had a sequential gearbox - therefore a 'close-ratio' gearbox doesn't factor in it? Or is that an option instead of a sequential box?

[tail slide]

I only heard of the costly sequential box being developed for the(now mothballed?) T440R.

[the pits]

Sequential box was only ever shown on the typhon pre-prod show car. If the Sagaris was ever to recieve the supercharged engine as the rumours suggested it might one day, then I guess why not throw in the sequential box too. Other than that it's always been the manual 5 speeder.

Oh yeah, the anthracite spider wheels are an option too, they're not standard.

[WhirlingDERVish]

Well, it's amazing how a rumour can become a fact. I could swear that I read in Evo March that the Sagaris had a sequential box but now that I re-read the article it's refering to the Typhon. It's not the clearest passage in the world;

"The Sagaris could take the new supercharged straight six - but at present is only slated for the new Typhon. Wheeler seems to have a certain ambivalence towards the sequential gearbox which is also nearing completion. 'Along the way it's been a conventional manual and a sequential, conventional again and now it's sequential'."

So I read into that that they had decided on the sequential. Shame that it's a manual instead.

I'm not a current TVR owner, does anyone have an opinion on whether the close-ratio box is the one to go for?