Just two years after it was first announced that TVR
would make a return by collaborating with Cosworth and Gordon Murray, we now
have an official debut date for the British company’s new car – September 8,
2017.
This will be during the Goodwood Revival event, and
to celebrate the carmaker’s 70th anniversary, it will be joined be several
historic TVR models. For now, all that is provided to us is this shot of one of
the car’s side exhaust outlet and wheel. However, the company did reveal a
little more details about its new car, which promises to deliver a zero to 96
km/h time of less than four seconds and a top speed of 322 km/h.
Power will come from a 5.0 litre V8 engine developed
by Cosworth, which should make about 486 hp, based on the these two figures
quoted – vehicle weight of 1,200 kg and power-to-weight ratio of 405 hp per
tonne.
The new TVR will also employ Gordon Murray Design’s
iStream Carbon manufacturing process, which includes carbon-fibre (or
glass-reinforced plastic) panels fused to a tubular steel frame. The iStream
process is said to quicken the process manufacturing a monocoque, and keep
costs down.
TVR will build 500 Launch
Edition cars, which will be priced at under 90,000 pounds.