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This is our first (sort of) look at the all-new TVR sports car that is on its way, with the machine due to be officially unveiled at the Goodwood Revival Earls Court Motor Show on Friday.
Pictured in a shadowy graphic format alongside a TVR Vixen from the 1960s, the latest British sports vehicle bears more than a passing resemblance, certainly from the dead ahead, to a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG. But that's no bad thing - it would appear the revived TVR is not just going to slavishly ape the last of the Peter Wheeler-era machines and give us cars with round headlights and strange door-opening mechanisms.
We already know a few facts about the TVR newcomer, such as it has a 5.0-litre Cosworth-enhanced V8 with somewhere in the region of 490hp. Implanted into a body that weighs just 1,200kg - or about the same as the latest Volkswagen Polo 1.0 TSI - the car company has already claimed that it will have the best power-to-weight ratio in its class.
TVR was revived in 2013 when Les Edgar and his consortium purchased the defunct carmaker from Nikolai Smolenski, the young Russian oligarch who closed the company down in 2006. No less a luminary than Gordon Murray, he of McLaren F1 fame, is involved in the development of the new TVR sports car and eager punters have already slapped down big deposits to be among the first to own this automotive phoenix from the flames.
Anything else?
The old TVRs were made of fibreglass resin but the new ones will feature an advanced carbon fibre tub, which is where Gordon Murray and his iStream production venture has come into the picture.