lovely cars to live with and drive. much more civilised than the rover v8 to drive. keep the revs low and it won’t bite, and will be very docile, wind the revs on and be prepared for the top of your head to fall off, you’ll be grinning that wide.
I always think of them as grown-up elises. they handle really nicely but go like 5hit off a shovel when you want them too.
I did over 45k miles in a chimeara, and had various Tamora, griff, chim, elise and t350 to play with. probably the tamora would be my choice for a toy from tvr – that convertible thing, but I did a good few miles in the boss’ t350t, and it was ace.
these days, now the factory is defunct ( 🙁 ) I’d be much more inclined to go elise ( s1 111s ) or something from caterham.