TVR
The TVR Cerbera is one of 35 TVR models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 1996. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the TVR Cerbera properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1990s were the decade of refinement — airbags and ABS became universal, Japanese build quality set the world standard, and the modern SUV segment was effectively invented. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Alfa Romeo Alfa Romeo 156, the Lotus Cars Lotus Elise, the Škoda Auto Škoda Octavia — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the TVR Cerbera reads like this: the record lists its engine as 4.0 L TVR Speed Six engine / Speed Six Straight-six engine / I6 / 4.2 L TVR Speed Eight engine / Speed Eight (AJP8) V8 engine / V8 / 4.5 L TVR Speed Eight engine / Speed Eight (AJP; kerb weight is recorded at 1100 kg (Speed Eight) / 1060 kg (4.5 Lightweight) / 1130 kg (Speed Six); drive goes through 5-speed manual; the layout is Front mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within TVR's own catalogue the TVR Cerbera sits alongside the TVR 3000S, the TVR 350SE, the TVR 350i, the TVR 390SE. The record names the successor = as its predecessor and the class = Sports car (S) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Damian McTaggart. Assembly is recorded at United Kingdom: Blackpool, England.
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