TVR Tuscan V6

TVR
Tuscan V6
Production period:	1969-1971
Class :	Sports car
Body versions :	Coupe
Engines:	Otto engine : 3.0 liters (100 kW)
Length:	3683 mm
Width:	1626 mm
Height:	1220 mm
Wheelbase :	2286 mm
Empty weight :	909 kg
Previous model	TVR Tuscan Se
successor	TVR 3000M

The TVR Tuscan V6 was a two-seat sports coupe , the TVR in Blackpool ( England ) from 1969 produced by the 1971st

Model description

Based on the eight-cylinder Tuscan Se model , a car with the British Ford Essex engine was created in 1969. This V6 engine had a displacement of 2,994 cc and gave an output of 136 bhp (100 kW) at 4,750 min ^-1 from. A Weber carburettor was attached to form the mixture . The coupé reached a top speed of 200 km / h and consumed 12.5 l / 100 km. 101 units of the Tuscan V6 had been built by 1971. The role of the Tuscan V6 on the European market was taken over by the 3000M from 1972 , which was based on the newly developed chassis of the M series .

The Tuscan V6 played no role in the USA because the British Ford engine did not meet the emissions regulations there. Only seven of the 101 Tuscan V6 went abroad. Instead, TVR developed the TVR Vixen 2500 for the North American market on the basis of the Tuscan V6, which was presented in 1970 and instead of the Essex engine had an exhaust-gas-cleaned and US-approved version of the in-line six-cylinder engine from the Triumph TR6 . The Vixen 2500 took over the body of the Tuscan V6.

swell

• David Culshaw & Peter Horrobin: The Complete Catalog of British Cars 1895-1975 , Veloce Publishing plc., Dorchester (1997), ISBN 1-874105-93-6

Individual evidence

1. ^ History of the TVR Tuscan V6 on the website of the TVR Car Club Germany (accessed on April 24, 2019).
2. ^ Matthew Vale: TVR 1946−1982. The Trevor Wilkinson and Martin Lilley Years , The Crowood Press, Ramsbury 2017, ISBN 978-1785003516 , p. 104.
3. ^ John Tipler: TVR , Sutton Publishing Ltd., Strout, 1998, ISBN 0-7509-1766-0 , p. 44.