Tom Walkinshaw Racing was a British motorsport and engineering firm with successes in Method 1 and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Sometimes called TWR, the corporate, which was additionally concerned within the improvement of a variety of highway automobiles, went beneath in 2002 attributable to mounting money owed linked with its takeover of the Arrows F1 staff six years prior.

Quick ahead to right now and Fergus Walkinshaw, the son of Tom Walkinshaw Racing founder Tom Walkinshaw, is engaged on a brand new efficiency automobile marque working as TWR. A teaser shot of its first mission has been launched and extra particulars are to comply with shortly, the corporate introduced this week.

The corporate is predicated in Newbury, U.Okay., and already has a large staff of engineers. Their objective might be to ship bespoke autos that “push the envelope of efficiency engineering,” the corporate stated. The main target might be on combining trendy supplies with an analog driving expertise, presumably hinting that some fashions should still provide a guide transmission.

Like the unique Tom Walkinshaw Racing, TWR can even work with established automobile corporations on performance-related initiatives. A few of the predecessor firm’s initiatives included the early line of HSV-tuned Holden Commodores, the Aston Martin DB7, and Jaguar’s XJS, XJR-15, and XJ220.

“We now have scoured the efficiency and motorsport engineering worlds to assemble an extremely proficient technical staff, together with some members who have been a part of the unique TWR,” Walkinshaw stated in an announcement. “This new era of TWR is firstly an engineering firm that may make automobiles, quite than a carmaker doing engineering.”