You Can Have Your New TVR Made From Carbonfibre

The slow drip feed of tantalising TVR details continues, with the reborn company announcing that carbonfibre construction using Gordon Murray's 'iStream' process will be available
You Can Have Your New TVR Made From Carbonfibre

It’s taken a while, but via various nuggets of news over the last few months, we’re getting a clearer picture of the new TVR sports car. We know it’ll be a coupe, we know it’ll look something like the image above, and we know it’ll have a Cosworth-tuned variation of Ford’s ‘Coyote’ V8, giving the car a power-to-weight ratio of around 400bhp/tonne. And today, we have another little detail to bring you: it’ll be made from carbonfibre.

That is, if you specify it as an option, or if you buy the Launch Edition model, which will have the posh carbonfibre bits as standard. It’s all done through Gordon Murray’s ‘iStream’ manufacturing process, which consists of a tubular steel chassis clad in panels - each made from two fibreglass skins sandwiched together with a honeycomb core.

You Can Have Your New TVR Made From Carbonfibre

On the carbon-specced TVRs, the fibreglass will be swapped over for carbonfibre, again with two sheets of material sandwiched together with a honeycomb core. All this is said to be considerably more cost effective than a traditional carbonfibre construction.

Has this latest bit of information convinced you to buy one? You’ll have to get in line - the 2017 allocation of cars sold out way back in August.

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Comments

Arny Cunningham

I’m not going to lie… this is my reaction

01/21/2016 - 13:38 |
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Same

01/21/2016 - 14:01 |
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Anonymous

I’ll take it for free

01/21/2016 - 13:40 |
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Disklok

Convinced me to buy one? I’ll take two!

01/21/2016 - 13:42 |
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🎺🎺thank mr skeltal

In reply to by Disklok

They are already sold out since late August 2015 ;-;

01/21/2016 - 14:51 |
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495QED

Hell no. A real TVR must be tubular steel backbone subframe chassis with fibreglass body. A carbon fibre chassis is utter nonsense

01/21/2016 - 13:43 |
3 | 8

Didn’t you read the article? “… a tubular steel chassis clad in panels “ Only reinforcement and body panels are made out of GFRP or CFRP

01/21/2016 - 14:09 |
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Tyler Rampersaud

TVR is coming back squeals

01/21/2016 - 14:01 |
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Tyler Rampersaud
01/21/2016 - 14:04 |
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Mark Mason

A Carbonfibre death machine? Hell yes! Any word on if they will be US legal? Or are they gonna be old school and no airbags and such?

01/21/2016 - 14:04 |
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US and Canada safety: “we want airbags on your cars”
Us: “we aint care” 😂😂

01/21/2016 - 16:57 |
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Anonymous

I already have enough carbon fibre…

01/21/2016 - 16:55 |
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Anonymous

No transmission tunnel ???

01/21/2016 - 18:07 |
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Anonymous

If it comes out looking like the concept it may be competing for the title of the most beautiful car ever made. Its a timeless design that, in my opinion, looks better than anything else on the market at the moment

01/22/2016 - 09:15 |
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