Arguably the best TVR to buy new - how does it hold up when bought secondhand?
Ah yes, Blackpool. Britain’s equivalent of Coney Island, Bondi Beach or Phuket, but without the warmth. Still, Blackpool had one claim to fame that no other world-renowned resort could match: it was the home of TVR.
The Sagaris went on sale in 2005 at just under £50,000. Production stopped in 2006 at the 211 cars built mark, with seven race cars built in that year by the GTF team at the TVR factory in Bristol Ave, Blackpool and a promise of a Sagaris 2 by the then-new TVR owner Nikolai Smolensky. A small run of ‘RT’ shells were made for a racing series but these were sold prior to the wind-up.
The Sagaris transmission was a five-speed Borg Warner T5. Pro road testers didn’t seem to complain about it much but some owners described it as ‘agricultural’. If acceleration through the standard gearbox sounded like it wasn’t going to be mad enough, new buyers had the choice of paying TVR £1,530 for a close-ratio alternative. The press test car had that ‘box and used it to do the 0-60 in 3.9 seconds , 0-100 in 8.5 seconds and 0-150 in 20.0 seconds.
Brake power and feel at the pedal were tremendous, but with no ABS the front wheels inevitably locked up if you stood on it. You’d be stopping at an eyeball-lengthening rate but it paid to learn cadence braking, not just for reduced tyre and splitter wear but also for lower laundry bills. A Hydratrac limited-slip differential was standard equipment. Power oversteer was easy to provoke and control. Have a look at the tyres on any car you buy to make sure they’re not old.
We called it a cabin just then but it was more like a cocoon, and a very comfortable one too with full leather as standard. It was nicely built too, which must have come as a shock to some owners of earlier TVRs, although the wiring behind the dash was still haphazard in the best TVR style and not immune to breakage.
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