When a brand’s as distinctive as TVR, the fans are equally unique. Admirers of TVR cars can come together in the TVR Car Club, which was originally founded in 1962 as a small London-based group of super-fans. Today, the club has over 7000 members and operates around the world. (more…)
In the late 1990s, there was a war going on in the roads. The McLaren F1 was dominating sports car makers everywhere with its futuristic design, and in 1998 set the still-unbroken record for fastest production car worldwide, 240 mph. British maker TVR, however, was not about to take this challenge lying down, and in 1996 displayed the first model of the TVR Project 7/12. The 7 referred to the number of liters in the engine, although it was actually 7.7, and the 12 stood for the number of cylinders. The engine could produce over 1000 horsepower and was so expensive to build that only five are known. (more…)
Today, TVR has a large fan-base who marvel over its sleek, sexy, and stylish cars. But how many know that it’s history stretches back more than half a century? The first car under the TVR name appeared in 1949—a two-seater alloy body with a tubular chassis built by founder Trevor Wilkinson and partner Jack Pickard. The TVR brand comes from Trevor’s name. (more…)
You can’t spend every minute in your TVR car, as much as you might want to. Since you’ve got to get out sometime, why not look into some books to improve your driving enjoyment? There are a variety of volumes written by fans who take their work very seriously—seriously enough to spend their days test-driving cars, interviewing insiders, and compiling it all together to give you the same thrill. (more…)