{"id":12909,"date":"2021-12-05T10:06:25","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T10:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.co.uk\/magazine\/?p=12909"},"modified":"2021-12-05T10:06:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T10:06:25","slug":"1997-tvr-cerbera-auction-car-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/1997-tvr-cerbera-auction-car-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"1997 TVR Cerbera – Auction Car of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

TVR are renowned for making bonkers cars and we love them for that. Not only are their creations a bit mental, but the British firm from the south east also makes them fast. The Cerbera was no exception and it remains one of the company’s most exciting models to this day.<\/p>\n

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The Cerbera was unleashed onto an unsuspecting public in 1996 and it was rather special because not only was it the first 2+2 that TVR had produced, but more importantly it was also the first car to utilise an engine that was developed entirely in-house. And boy what an engine it was. Designed by British race engineer Alwyn ‘Al’ Melling, who came with legit Formula One credentials, the lightweight 75-degree, flat-plane crank V8 the boys at TVR produced was essentially a race engine. Dubbed the ‘Speed Eight’ the original 4.2-litre produced 360bhp with a later 4.5-litre churning out an incredible 420bhp and the final, re-mapped incarnation developing a whopping 440. TVR certainly meant business.<\/p>\n

Designed as a four-seater (albeit with much smaller pews in the rear) the Cerbera was, and still is, a serious car for serious drivers. There are no electronic driver aids here to fall back on, it’s just you and the car and if you get it wrong, well, that’s entirely on you my friend. It’s a snarling beast which befits its name with a 0-60 time of under four seconds for the larger displacement variants and a top whack of around 190mph.<\/p>\n