Clarkson on the Tamora
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Not that I read the rag my self ... but I was told Clarkson did a sensible review of the Tamora...
Here it is:
www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2002130765,00.html
I HAVE just spent a week with the new Tamora, billed as the most user-friendly TVR ever made.
“User friendly”, however, is a relative term. And let’s be honest, a “user-friendly” TVR is a bit like a “user friendly” atomic bomb. Or a “user friendly” great white shark.
If it were truly user friendly, like a Mercedes Benz, it would have air bags and anti lock brakes and some kind of traction control. But it has none of these things.
Nor does it have a CD player, or air conditioning, or a roof that folds away at the touch of a button.
No, what TVR mean when they call this car user friendly is that it won’t punch you in the face every day — just once a week.
They’ve given it a slightly softer ride than all the other models.
They’ve given it slower steering, though you’d never tell — and they’ve given it a roof that fits into the boot easily. They’ve also given it a cockpit that you might even call comfy.
Well, if you’d been in a Turkish prison for the last 40 years, you’d call it comfy.
But don’t worry, this thing is no vegetarian. Bring whatever you like to the party — a six- cylinder SLK Mercedes.
A Porsche Boxster S. An M powered BMW Z3. The £36,500 user-friendly Tamora will eat them all for breakfast.
Its straight six Howitzer of an engine hurls it from 0-60 in 4.6seconds.
And the top speed is an unrestricted, bellowing 160mph.
But this is not the best bit. If you want grunt and noise go for one of the harder V8 cars. A Chimera. A Tuscan. Or best of all, a Cerbera.
No, the best thing about the Tamora is its styling.
This is by far the best-looking TVR of all time. I’d call it pretty, but it wouldn’t like that.
It would be like calling Vinnie Jones pretty. You’d end up with fewer teeth.
So really what we have here is a stormer of a car.
Slightly, very slightly, easier to live with than a normal TVR but still more than capable of blitzing just about anything else on the road.
It’s a damn good, handsome, soft top two-seat sports car.
Here it is:
www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2002130765,00.html
I HAVE just spent a week with the new Tamora, billed as the most user-friendly TVR ever made.
“User friendly”, however, is a relative term. And let’s be honest, a “user-friendly” TVR is a bit like a “user friendly” atomic bomb. Or a “user friendly” great white shark.
If it were truly user friendly, like a Mercedes Benz, it would have air bags and anti lock brakes and some kind of traction control. But it has none of these things.
Nor does it have a CD player, or air conditioning, or a roof that folds away at the touch of a button.
No, what TVR mean when they call this car user friendly is that it won’t punch you in the face every day — just once a week.
They’ve given it a slightly softer ride than all the other models.
They’ve given it slower steering, though you’d never tell — and they’ve given it a roof that fits into the boot easily. They’ve also given it a cockpit that you might even call comfy.
Well, if you’d been in a Turkish prison for the last 40 years, you’d call it comfy.
But don’t worry, this thing is no vegetarian. Bring whatever you like to the party — a six- cylinder SLK Mercedes.
A Porsche Boxster S. An M powered BMW Z3. The £36,500 user-friendly Tamora will eat them all for breakfast.
Its straight six Howitzer of an engine hurls it from 0-60 in 4.6seconds.
And the top speed is an unrestricted, bellowing 160mph.
But this is not the best bit. If you want grunt and noise go for one of the harder V8 cars. A Chimera. A Tuscan. Or best of all, a Cerbera.
No, the best thing about the Tamora is its styling.
This is by far the best-looking TVR of all time. I’d call it pretty, but it wouldn’t like that.
It would be like calling Vinnie Jones pretty. You’d end up with fewer teeth.
So really what we have here is a stormer of a car.
Slightly, very slightly, easier to live with than a normal TVR but still more than capable of blitzing just about anything else on the road.
It’s a damn good, handsome, soft top two-seat sports car.
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