The TVR Cerbera Speed 12 #blogpost

With TVR planning to make a comeback in a few year, I thought of making this post about one of the greatest cars the company has ever made.

In 1996, TVR started designing a car that was originally for endurance racing. The first Speed 12 was known as the Project 7/12. The name referred to the engine. The 7 referred to the engine size (7.7 litres), and the 12 referred to the number of cylinders that the engine had.

The TVR Speed 12’s V12 engine was made buy putting two speed 6 engines blocks to a common crankshaft. The engine block was made out of steel, not the more favored aluminum or cast iron. Due to racing regulations the engine power was limited by the intake and it produced 675 BHP (684 PS , 503 kW). When test the engine for the road car, the engine produced 1000 BHP (1013 PS , 745 kW), but the engine snapped the central shaft. To get round that problem, the engine was restricted to 940 BHP (953 PS , 701kW), But that was what the TVR engineers said.

0-60 mph (97 km/h): 2.9 seconds
weight 2,205 lb (1,000 kg)
power: 800 bhp (597 kW; 811 PS)
top speed: 240 mph (390 km/h)

(According to Wikipedia)

The TVR Cerbera Speed 12 new made to production because Peter Wheeler who was the owner of TVR (at the time) said that the vehicle was too powerful to be practical and the project was scrapped.