There’s one thing a few TVR badge that means wild efficiency, distinctive design, and wild impracticality. However in his newest video, Harry Metcalfe questions not less than a type of preconceptions.

Meatcalfe’s evaluate options the Cerbera 4.5. Particularly, one within the Purple Rose trim, which is probably the most highly effective of the V8 fashions. With a 4.5-liter flat-plane crank V8 making 440 hp and 380 lb-ft of torque, it had one of many highest particular outputs of any naturally aspirated V8 on the time, although the host questions the accuracy of TVR’s efficiency claims.

Regardless, the tempo was fairly good. With a curb weight of round 1,100 kg (2,425 lbs) and all that energy, the Cerbera may hit 60 mph in simply 3.9 seconds. Within the late ’90s and early aughts, when this automobile was new, that was actually fast.

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Regardless of being named after the three-headed hound that guarded the gates to Hades, it’s scarier to have a look at than it’s to drive, in accordance to Metcalfe. Though a decibel studying will reveal that the Cerbera is definitely fairly loud, it doesn’t really feel race-car-loud as a result of it isn’t droning. The seats, too, are snug on a protracted drive.

Inside, the two-plus-two format dominates its design. The lengthy doorways are there to assist back-seat passengers get in and TVR needed this automobile to compete with a 911 so it needed to be not less than as roadworthy as that automobile. The proprietor of this explicit instance even had little one seats made in the identical leather-based as the inside and has taken the automobile on many a household trip.

Nevertheless, with no traction management, a lightning-quick steering, and comparatively slim tires by at present’s requirements, it nonetheless has sufficient of that Cerberus spirit to encourage you to maintain each palms on the wheel and your wits about you always.