Revised Tamora to be launched at the Motorshow ...

Revised Tamora to be launched at the Motorshow ...

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christof

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905 posts

291 months

Sunday 22nd September 2002
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phockit

93 posts

272 months

Sunday 22nd September 2002
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Do we know if they've done anything with the arse end ??

tuscan_s

3,166 posts

280 months

Monday 23rd September 2002
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Kicked it!

PetrolTed

34,443 posts

310 months

Monday 23rd September 2002
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Interesting that they've done this.

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Is this because they want a revised front end for the coupe version that we're expecting. I reckon that is part of their long term GT/Le Mans plans. Is it simply to get bigger lighting on the cars for night races or am I reading too much into this. Is it the new legislation that requires everyone to drive with their fog lights on?
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roop

6,012 posts

291 months

Monday 23rd September 2002
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Sans lights fitted there, they'd make rather good air intakes for brake ducts...

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Interesting that they've done this.

[wildspeculation]
Is this because they want a revised front end for the coupe version that we're expecting. I reckon that is part of their long term GT/Le Mans plans. Is it simply to get bigger lighting on the cars for night races or am I reading too much into this. Is it the new legislation that requires everyone to drive with their fog lights on?
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beast

368 posts

291 months

Tuesday 24th September 2002
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oooh - sub-class-contender in next year's GT championship ?

nubbin

6,809 posts

285 months

Tuesday 24th September 2002
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Well, those body tubs must be for the motorshow - they would lay up new moulds, not chop an existing body, if this were just to be a revised shape Tamora. They will be lights, because the brakes don't need extra cooling, do they flasher?! I don't think there's any new lighting legislation coming in either, is there?

I am much more interested in seeing the back - if they've changed it significantly. If it is a hard top, and the back is different, and more integrated, I wonder if this will find it's way back onto the soft top?

Podie

46,645 posts

282 months

Tuesday 24th September 2002
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Hmm.. not sure about that new front light - seems to "unbalance" the aesthetics of the car...
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plotloss

67,280 posts

277 months

Tuesday 24th September 2002
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I reckon that if they have revised the Tamora shape for a Motorshow FHC Tamora with a GT leaning then to keep the brand in line they will almost certaintly release a revised Tamora purely because with the exception of the roof they will be able to share a mould to build the FHC and soft top cars.

Again, completely speculative though as none of us (Gaffer aside) actually know what the score is.

Matt.

NICE EH

108 posts

272 months

Tuesday 24th September 2002
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It seems a bit soon for a facelift / redesign.

Maybe they are thinking of putting a V8 in it, so they had to fiddle about with it?

Here's hoping....

Podie

46,645 posts

282 months

Tuesday 24th September 2002
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Which thread had all the pics in it? Is it worth trying to compare the back on the Tamora in the pic below (from the inside) against other pics?

plotloss

67,280 posts

277 months

Tuesday 24th September 2002
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Which thread had all the pics in it? Is it worth trying to compare the back on the Tamora in the pic below (from the inside) against other pics?



Its the one entitled Factory Pics or similar.

Matt.

PetrolTed

34,443 posts

310 months

Tuesday 24th September 2002
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oooh - sub-class-contender in next year's GT championship ?


Absolutely. One of the reasons TVR weren't keen on letting Tuscan race cars into that GT Cup class was supposedly that they would be entering a Tamora/? themselves.

zertec

499 posts

290 months

Tuesday 24th September 2002
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..If it is a hard top, and the back is different, and more integrated, I wonder if this will find it's way back onto the soft top?


The picture is of a soft top.

koen

148 posts

279 months

Tuesday 24th September 2002
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It might be a Tamora S with the 4.0 390 bhp engine
from the Tuscan S. By changing some details on the
front of the car, it will be different from the Tamora
3.6.

Just guessing...

Jarrett

100 posts

291 months

Wednesday 25th September 2002
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But why?

That would put it both in price and spec in direct competition with the Tuscan S.

Everybody seems to suggest that TVR sales of the AJP6's is down due to customer perspective of reliability. So why hit those profits further by offering equivalent vehicles at different price points?

It would make more sense to produce a cheaper tamora, more track day orientated, with a lower bhp power plant to steal some of the elise/vx220/caterham/westfield market. Same handling/aerodynamics etc. This, due to shared components/body shell/chassis/components would be higher profit and if the engine is less stressed, better reliability.

Just my thoughts from a business rather than a passionate perspective.

christof

Original Poster:

905 posts

291 months

Wednesday 25th September 2002
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OK, guys,

here is another thought

The Tuscan challenge will be replaced with the Tamora challenge. This make a very good sense marketingwise and , of course, to show the reliability of the Speed6 engine. Also I can remember have seen a stripped Tamora in the Motorsport section earlier this year.

So here we go again:

Motorshow cars:

1. production ready Tuscan R

2. new Tamora challenge car

3. Road legal version of the Challenge car

4. New race project for getting to LeMans

4. New 2 seater retro styled Coupe, referring to the older Grantura, Vixen, Tuscan, Griffith modells.

YUMMIE, I can't wait ....

I've heard, that TVR will have the biggest stand ever.

Christof*on the Motorshow on 26th and 27th October*

PetrolTed

34,443 posts

310 months

Wednesday 25th September 2002
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The Tuscan challenge will be replaced with the Tamora challenge. This make a very good sense marketingwise and...


I think this is unlikely. Carlube have sponsored the series for another two years and trying to sell new cars to all the teams would reduce the grid dramatically. That and none of the teams have had any whiff of such news. There's plenty of other speculation in the pit lanes, but not that.

jacksdad

307 posts

269 months

Wednesday 25th September 2002
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And the speculation in the pit lanes is ?

squirrelz

1,186 posts

278 months

Wednesday 25th September 2002
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Why don't they change the tuscan challenge engines - aren't they rented to the teams anyway?

A few seasons of racing the speed 6 should sort its reliability.