Again in 1998, TVR was dreaming. They needed to create a sooner and extra outrageous supercar than the mighty McLaren F1. Whereas they didn’t succeed with the previous, TVR positively created a beast, one which appeared prefer it needed to eat Mini Coopers for brunch.
When it was made, the Pace 12 was a departure from TVR’s common methods. It didn’t share a lot with any present fashions, and positively didn’t appear like them both.
This automobile gots its identify and from an idea engine which was so looney, TVR won’t ever attempt it once more. They determined to mate two of their potent Pace Six engines to a standard crank and modify the every to full race specification. The ensuing 7.7 liter, 1000+ bhp V12 was so highly effective, it broke TVR’s dyno. This immense energy, and the costly prices to put it to use, was the principle motive why solely only a few vehicles had been constructed. As little as 5 engines had been created!
The unique intention of the Pace 12 was to contest the GT1 class of FIA GT motor sport and go to LeMans. Sadly, earlier than the Pace 12 was sufficiently developed to win races, the laws modified and made the few race vehicles out of date. As an alternative, they contested the British GT championship with an enormous rectrictors that restricted energy to round 700 bhp. Regardless of this, the drivers had nonetheless had bother protecting energy to trace and any unrestricted automobile would have been even worse.
In 2000, TVR was decided to maintain the venture going and launched a road-going model known as the Cerbera Pace 12. A single instance was proven for the British Motor Present that 12 months, constructed from the racing vehicles however with with an unrestricted engine and big Goodyear Fioranos. Orders had been taken for a 160,000 GBP, ”McLaren-beating supercar” that was going to be TVRs most costly up to now. Peter Wheeler who owned TVR on the time, took the prototype for a drive hime and he ”concluded that the automobile was unusable on the highway”- all orders had been cancelled.
2000 TVR Cerbera Pace 12 © Iconic Auctioneers
2000 TVR Cerbera Pace 12 © Iconic Auctioneers
2000 TVR Cerbera Pace 12 © Iconic Auctioneers2000 TVR Cerbera Pace 12 © Iconic Auctioneers
2000 TVR Cerbera Pace 12 © Iconic Auctioneers
2000 TVR Cerbera Pace 12 © Iconic Auctioneers
2000 TVR Cerbera Pace 12 © Iconic Auctioneers
2000 TVR Cerbera Pace 12 © Iconic Auctioneers
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