In case you missed it when it was on tv.........

That's right not the *original* Lordy :)

But I *have* had a Rover 620, that's how I found the group in the first place.

Lordy.UK

Reliability pah!

If you're a big, hard, hairy-chested TVR driver and it breaks, you get out and fix it using nothing but your teeth.

Cheers,

Colin.

Yes, but the absurdity of one imbecile's choice of motor vehicle doesn't make the TVR anything other than what it is: an unreliable heap of poorly-built s*it.

Driven one lately?

Tom De Moor

Looks out of office window - oh no not another TVR (green one)

If by some bizarre twist of fate I can *ever* afford to get one, I will make sure I see you off at the lights with the TVR's loud unreliable engine roaring away and a big cloud of dust, while you are cocooned in you comfortable air conditioned rep mobile miles away in my rear view mirror :)

Slevin

TBH, there's probably a decent chance that Ben would be on a bike, and thus, disappear off into the distance :)

I suppose he could do that :) the provision of course being that his bike can do 170Mph.

Slevin

Only needs to do about 120 in about half the time it takes you.

True, Bikes are untouchable for speed

Slevin

Unless you're a Veyron owner.

Maybe a touch more expensive :)

Not for a couple of years. It was a fairly enjoyable drive, sure, but my mate who owned it soon went back to real cars, because he was so sick of the quality of the finish, and the way it kept going wrong.

There are no Veyron owners who dare to take the car to speed.

Read my lips: not one.

Never climbed Mount Everest, very probable never will, but above 8000 m on a mountain your wallet is less of importance to your survival than the skills, training and stamina you have.

Any car at speeds touching 280 kph/ 175MPH or more is in the same league: you mess up, you die. It may not be the car which poses the limit, far more likely the limits are dictated by either driver or road (or both).

How much money you have becomes irrelevant when you evolve in a fraction of a second from driver to passenger at those speeds.

Tom De Moor

Then I guess you can differentiate between the "kitcar" TVR and the late models.

As TVR, Lotus was known here for Lots Of Trouble Usually Serious but both experienced buildquality and overall design to quantumleap.

There are lots of reasons why (very) high performance road toys -being Italian of British- broke /break down: on one side they go into stresses where competition cars live (which are revised every 1000 km), on the other side the productionvolume was/is so small that errors are detected too late. Read : the errors are detected by the customer.

Somebody I known swears by TVR: wonderfull cars, fast, fantastic roadholding but very prone to kill you.

His TVR's like his 911 Turbo is exempt of all "safety electronics" : less to break down, more control by the driver... if the driver is qualified. Be gentle with the throttle at 200 kph: flooring it too brusque and it will trace 2 black ribbons on any surface. If you are lucky the two lines are straight, it ruines your day and underwear when they spin...

Tom De Moor

That makes me sad. If I had a supercar, I'd just have to go down the M180 in it...

Still hankoring after that 360 Spider?

DanTXD ( snipped-for-privacy@privacy.net) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Yea that would be the likely outcome... But he walked away with cuts and bruises :)