Just been on the TVR forums, looking for information. Looks like even the newer Tuscans are just like the older TVR's (nice looking kit cars, that go very fast and break down just as quickly). And the warranty is only 1 year from factory!!!!
Thats why residuals are so poor!
I dont have pockets deep enough for one of those machines, but its nice to look.
In my mind, for the money, their is nothing that beats the S2K. It looks amazin, drives well, and is well screwed together.

I'll keep polishing my Honda.

 

A work colleague (Elise owner) was out the weekend of Supermeet 2 with other performance cars, a TVR (newish) being one of them, 100 or so miles around some north-east roads and the first time it had been let loose, The throttle cable snapped half way round, had to drive it back by string attached to the throttle body (I kid you not).

Love the noise when they do go.

 

I changed from Griff 500 to S2000 in may of this year.

Reasoning:
Wanted something easier to drive in traffic, without always worrying about overheating.
Wanted something alot easier to drive in the wet. Sometimes you just want to switch off and let the car drive you. (not possible in the wet in a 500 Griff)
Wanted something that didnt cost a fortune to service.
Wanted to drive something with a little better fuel consumption.
Didnt want to be driving with the fear of breaking down all the time.

All I can say is that I now take the reliability for granted on the Honda, I cant imagine going back to the TVR.

Would have another but it really takes guts for it to be your only car (especially through winter)

Just my 2p
David
Aberdeen

 

I once had a Hillman Imp (boxy piece of crap with an aluminium engine in the rear... remember them?). Same thing happened to me. I drove from Gloucester to Yeovil with a piece of string attached to the throttle, running from the back of the car and in through the driver's window

I also once had an MG Midget on which the fuel pump packed up halfway between Worcester and Reading. I filled a gallon can with petrol, emptied the washer bottle, filled it with petrol from the can and attached the washer tube to the carburettor float chamber. Every time the car started to cough and splutter, I operated the washers and filled the float chamber again. Got me home!

Tell that to the young kids of today and they'd never believe you

Pete

PS
Home was a cardboard box in't middle of t'road

 

The person that bought my oo S2 had just sold his Wreg Tuscan (49k new). He only got 25k for it Need I say more.

 

I seriously considered a TVR instead of the S, although not a Tuscan because it was out of my price range.

I spoke to my local ex TVR dealer. "Ex" because they got sick of the unreliability problems with the Tuscan, especially the engine. They had two new ones blow up very early on in life, resulting in new engines (not sure exactly what went). The speed six engine is apparently very unreliable. The dealer couldn't work on them and they all had to go back to Blackpool for fettling.

The most reliable are the Rover engined ones, and whilst they'll never be as reliable as an S, they're a lot better than the Tuscan. It tends to be things like starter motors, alternators that go.

I know someone who has a Griff and they're as fast as the normal Tuscan. The only thing that has overtaken him (and believe me he has "clashed" with all sorts of exotic stuff!) was a yellow NSX that turned out to have been imported from Japan and considerably "tweaked". It got up behind him at 150 on the M1 near Sheffield and went by at 186 !! (186 because when he finally caught up with it they pulled over and that's what the onboard computer reading was).

Anyway, I digress, but beware of yellow left hand drive NSX's around Leeds!

I'd love a TVR, but as asecond car.

Dean