TVR Cerbera

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This is my car, its got a 4.5 litre flat plane crank V8 with 2 valves per cylinder and produces 420hp and 380lbs/ft of torque which makes it fast as shit off a shovel!

0-60 in 3.9 secs,  0-100 in 8.3 secs, 0-150 in 17.9 secs and then onto a top speed of over 190mph.    Pretty nippy....

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This pic was taken at Hockenheim in March 2000.

Its an early 1999 model and is painted in Halcyon Atlantis which is a nice blueish-greenish flip-flop colour and looks great in the sun. Inside its green and dark blue leather with dark blue carpets and blue headlining.

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Here you can see the buttons on the steering wheel which operate the wipers, washer, horn and full beam. The gauges under the steering wheel show the fuel and theres a clock too. The black button starts the engine and the red one switches it off.

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It has straight through exhaust pipes with no silencers and has been decatted.  I've had a set of Ohlins shocks from a TVR Tuscan racing car and stiffer springs fitted which improves the handling by a massive amount.   This was done by Martin Short at Rollcentre.   Now it sits very low to the ground and scrapes most speed bumps....at least there aren't too many in CH.   But there are too many over-zealous policeman meaning that loud cars are not too popular.  Nor is the TVR dealer in Zurich very competent.   This has led to me selling the car.  I won't need it in Latin America anyway....!

Me, 2am, motorway service station near Solothun after accelerating from 185kmh to 250kmh away from a closely following member of the Swiss Gestapo. Lost my licence on the spot and had to get Anders to come and pick me up!