TVR 3000 S - tradition-conscious roadster for non-comformists
Summary
In 1978, the small English sports car company TVR launched a roadster on the market, the brand's first open-top car since the 1950s. Thanks to its powerful V6 engine and attractive bodywork, the open-top plastic sports car won the hearts of customers. This vehicle report tells the story of the TVR 3000 S and portrays the first example imported into Switzerland in detail, supplemented by historical illustrations and sales brochures.
This article contains the following chapters
- Start shortly after the war
- The herald Tuscan LWB/WB
- The M-series
- Successful and less successful model variants
- Finally an open-top TVR again
- Appreciated by the press
- Also with 230 turbo hp
- Own imitation products
- Tame and frugal
- A classic today
- Survivable
- The TVR models of the M series from 1972-1979
- Further information
Estimated reading time: 8min
Preview (beginning of the article)
At the end of the seventies, launching a genuine roadster on the market - with plug-in windows, sliding windows and a roof that was difficult to fit and had no place in the car - required courage, boldness or both. Marketing strategists would probably have advised against it, but Martin Lilley didn't employ them at TVR and so he presented the TVR 3000 S as the last model in the M series - beguilingly open and rustic. In 1947, Trevor Wilkinson founded the company "Trevcar Motors" to build sports cars. The name soon changed to TVR, a variation of Wilkonson's first name "TreVoR". Steel-frame chassis and polyester bodies were the common denominator of most TVR vehicles.
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