Road Test
TVR Sagaris
Test Date 24 May 2005
Price When New £58,750
Verdict
It’s probably very unfair to call the Sagaris the TVR Peter Wheeler never quite delivered. Yet the timing is undeniable. New owner Nikolai Smolenski took over TVR roughly one year ago: since then his company has produced a revised Tuscan and now the Sagaris; the former is a much better car than its predecessor, the latter is the most accomplished and best TVR in history.
What distinguishes the Sagaris as something special isn’t merely its pace or its extraordinary good looks — there have been plenty of TVRs that have looked good and gone like stink over the years. Instead, it is its completeness as a package, and that’s a real first for TVR.
In the end the recipe is not so very different from the one Peter Wheeler pioneered so successfully for so long at TVR, because the Sagaris goes like a rocket, is affordable compared with its rivals and looks sensational — the exact same straightforward formula that brought TVR fame in the first place. The difference this time is that the Sagaris has real polish in almost everything it does. It’s not a car you need to make excuses for, it is a car that takes TVR to the next level.
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