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04-28-2004, 09:59 AM
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TVR Chimaera 400
Picked this up a couple of weeks ago as a replacement for my Saab 9-5 Aero. I intend to take the mad risk of running it as an everyday car...... and apparently most of TVRs woes revolve around the poor things sitting unloved in garages and only coming out to play on high days and holidays! :x
She's a 1998R with 25000 miles on the clock, 4.0litre V8, and is pretty much immaculate inside and out, but for a few stone chips - and I need to wait for ICI to mix some of the custom paint before I can touch those in.
Economy is more than satisfactory - my 80 miles round trip to work is returning 22.4mpg on a mix of town and country roads, and I'm not going gently....
As for the performance.....  ...... well frankly it's mindblowing, and the V8 howl that charges out of the twin exhausts is fantastic..... and brilliant for scaring small children! 
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04-28-2004, 10:09 AM
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Wow nice car mate, how much you pay for it?
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04-28-2004, 10:20 AM
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Nice car dude I love TVRs, their sound is always so sweet and nice to see you will use it as a daily car
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04-28-2004, 10:31 AM
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Paid £16k from a Ferrari/Maserati dealer - he'd brought it in as a part-ex against a 4200GT, and wanted shot of it...... would've been rude not to! 
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04-28-2004, 10:33 AM
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Oh, and I was damned if I was going to buy such a car and NOT drive it! Couldn't see the point at all. It's one thing to have a stable full of cars and have to pick and choose every time you want to go down to the shops, but it seems madness to have such a lovely motor and then only bring it out if its sunny, warm, clear, dry, unmuddy and there's an "R" in the month etc...... what a waste! 
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04-28-2004, 02:17 PM
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very nice.. TVR is one of my favourite marques 
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04-28-2004, 03:44 PM
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sweet ride man! take more pics and poset them in 1024 if you can please
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04-28-2004, 04:06 PM
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wOW , very cool drive , you dont get to see TVR every day
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04-28-2004, 05:33 PM
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I think of the pre-six TVR's the chimera was the most reliable, i know that the grifith was a dog, and the cerbera went out of tune very quickly, and was plagued with varous switchgear problems. But the chimera is often used as a daily driver from what ive seen.
Enjoy that sound, its fuckin awsome!
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04-28-2004, 05:36 PM
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Hey, we still have a 9-5 Aero in the family, quality cars. As for the TVR, different league really lol
Nice, might have to think about replacing our 9-5 with one, only problem is, ours has done 79,000 on a 'W' plate
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04-28-2004, 06:40 PM
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Nice lookin car there. Its a damn shame we dont get TVRs here. I really like them.
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04-28-2004, 07:03 PM
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nice TVR! wow want to hear that engine
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04-28-2004, 10:08 PM
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TVR rocks! One day I will import one! 8) 8)
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04-28-2004, 10:54 PM
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Awesome cars. A friend of mine has the only Cerbera in the country, and is very close to Peter Wheeler, TVR Malaysia (separate ocmpany), etc. Through him I've come to learn abtou the marque, and I must say, absolutely amazing cars!!!
--Dan
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04-29-2004, 07:42 AM
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Originally Posted by jon_s
Hey, we still have a 9-5 Aero in the family, quality cars. As for the TVR, different league really lol
Nice, might have to think about replacing our 9-5 with one, only problem is, ours has done 79,000 on a 'W' plate |
Mine has 86k on a W, so don't fret! Dealer gave us £6500 in part-ex, which isn't too bad as I only paid £9995 for it 18 months ago.
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