TVR 350i 2+2 from 1983 - sports wedge and unique piece
Summary
TVR had built up a loyal customer base over many years with traditionally oriented sports cars. However, when the Tasmin was presented at the beginning of the 1980s, many people found it too extreme, too wedge-shaped. But the performance was right and the car became ever more powerful and faster over the 11 years it was built. Nevertheless, it remained less desirable than the vehicles before and after, perhaps wrongly so. This report portrays a TVR 350i 2+2 from 1983, the first and only left-hand drive vehicle of this type ever, supplemented by many pictures from today and back then, as well as 15 (!) brochures and price lists.
This article contains the following chapters
- Sports car tradition at TVR
 - The chassis as a supporting platform
 - Another Ford V6 engine
 - The "wedge design" and its development
 - More displacement, more power under Wheeler
 - The turbo and the white elephant
 - Wedge for more than a decade
 - Balanced sports car
 - Halfway to the TVR Griffith
 - The cheapest way to drive a TVR today
 - Simple, but not necessarily cheap
 - Production statistics
 - Further information
 
Estimated reading time: 10min
Preview (beginning of the article)
Martin Lilley and his team at TVR almost caused a culture shock among fans of the brand when they presented the wedge-shaped TVR Tasmin in 1980, which was to replace the roundish 3000 M. The design by Oliver Winterbottom, who had previously designed the Lotus Eclat and Elite models, was a bit off-putting, in the truest sense of the word. The shape was as if drawn with a ruler and tapered, what a difference to the rounded predecessors, which breathed the spirit of the fifties and sixties. But the Lotus Esprit and Fiat X 1/9 had heralded the trend towards the straight-lined wedge shape in the seventies and TVR did not want to be left behind.
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