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Old 01-12-2003, 05:19 PM   #46
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TVR has publicy said many times they are in no rush to go to the US, they have no reason to, they already sell plenty of cars over here.
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Old 01-13-2003, 07:18 AM   #47
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well last week i talked to a empoyee of a tuscan dealer here in germany and she sayed they´re thinking of going to the us market in the next years...
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you guys there should hope so
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Old 01-14-2003, 12:15 PM   #48
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For you guys i think they should.
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Old 04-03-2003, 01:46 PM   #49
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no way i dont think that is a good idea the us is not ready for tvr's
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Old 04-03-2003, 01:55 PM   #50
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no way i dont think that is a good idea the us is not ready for tvr's
why not???
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Old 04-03-2003, 02:03 PM   #51
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cos i dont thinky they will like the car that much
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Old 05-19-2003, 12:32 PM   #52
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the only differences between the GT1 and the GT2 is the body work.. just take a look at the 2 photo's pasted on here.... the GT1 (white and blue) is by far more aggresive, sharper body lines.. this car's looking for a fight.. the GT2 (purple one) is the later rendering when they decided they will produce it and the earlier prototype was too raw for the street so they made it look like a bigger cerbera (from the front anyway) and what TVR know there customers like.. well most of them the GT1 is by far the best..

Like i said as far as i'm aware other than that they both share:

7.7 litre 48 valve V12

800bhp

650lb ft of torque

and just 1070kg

(MacLaren being 70kg heavier and 173bhp less!!!)
The road going Speed 12 is supposed to have 940 bhp. It's weight is 1150kg. The only known dyno power rating of the engine in it is 660ft lb @5700 RPM(TVR's dyno's drive shaft broke when testing the engine at 5700 RPM). I also saw an interview of Peter Wheeler about the Speed 12, and when asked about it's power he was little dodging. He said that they were rating it at 940+ bhp. The way they got the power rating for it was by taking the power of the two straight sixes that make up the V12, and then added them togethe. He also said that the engineers thought the engine was making around 1200 bhp based on their equations and what not.

Also, the restyling was to meet race regulations. The front grill had to be 80% of the cars width.

I have yet to find any other official information on the Speed 12, but if you check out the "Speed 12" thread there is a full description of the methods my friend used to get an estimated 0-60 time for this car of 2.42 sec.
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Old 05-19-2003, 04:01 PM   #53
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I've heard the racing Speed 12's had the power restricted to fit racing rules, and that the roadcars had up to 150bhp more. Of course, this is all hearsay, I'm unsure of the truth in it.
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Old 06-10-2003, 03:20 PM   #54
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NO THAT MUST BE A LIE
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Old 06-11-2003, 01:56 AM   #55
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There are GT restrictions, this could be true. That is why the cars top is 80% of the body width, so why not an HP restriction to make it fairer?
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Old 06-11-2003, 11:34 AM   #56
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i dont think it is true
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From what I have read in official writtings(Magazines, interviews) the race spec engine was capable of 800 bhp with the least restrictive restrictor plate. The versions that actually raced though were limited to between 660-680 bhp. As far as I have been able to find the only difference according to TVR between the street version engine and the race version engine is the street car doesn't have the restrictor plate, and has some tweaked engine mapping to optimize the added air flow.
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Old 06-12-2003, 03:05 PM   #58
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i suppose your right
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Old 05-16-2004, 04:22 PM   #59
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Re: Speed 12's limited

tvr made a lot of money in the US before

thats were the first chasis were sold and were the griffths were developed
but scince then TVR has became 10 times more patriotic and the cars r made totaly from british things
even the petrol tanks lol
but the yanks love british cars cos they actually go fast and arnt too heavy and bulty like muscle cars so they would sell them well thier
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