TVR Tuscan S - not just for bad guys at all
Summary
If a car manufacturer with four model series and self-developed engines builds 500 cars a year, they should actually be very expensive. But a TVR cost just over EUR 100,000 and so it was not surprising that the company could not be successful in the long term with this strategy. But with the Tuscan, TVR succeeded in creating a final bouquet that many a competitor could take a leaf out of their book. This driving report is dedicated to the TVR Tuscan S Mk 2 and shows it in many pictures, including sales brochures and a sound sample.
This article contains the following chapters
- The roots: The Tuscan of the sixties
 - From the Griffith to the Cerbera to the second Tuscan
 - New paths in design
 - Not for everyone
 - First edition with a "bad boy" image
 - Caesura
 - Refined and improved
 - A true Granturismo ...
 - ... with many special features
 
Estimated reading time: 11min
Preview (beginning of the article)
Very few people can imagine a TVR Tuscan in modern times, even though the car is less than 20 years old. But if you mention the films Password: Swordfish or Looney Tunes, then the picture becomes more concrete, because the TVR Tuscan played important roles in these films (and others). But let's go back to the beginning ... There was already a TVR Tuscan in the sixties. As a replacement for the TVR Griffith 400, the Tuscan V8 was built from 1967, the chassis of which was based on the Grantura with a four-cylinder engine. With an American V8 engine from Ford, it was a real spectacle. Three series were produced, a total of just 58 vehicles.
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