Trackwise TVR

Blackpool sports-car manufacturer TVR has broadened its racing involvement to promote its latest model, on show for the first time at the Motor Show this month.

An uprated version of the 5, the new car will be called Tuscan, after TVR’s mid-Sixties V8, and will use a Rover V8 midway in tune between the 350i and 390 models.

A one-make series of 12 rounds called the Tuscan Challenge is being planned, run by the BRSCC. Thirty prepared race-cars using a 300 bhp V8 will be sold at a discounted £16,000, and prize-money will total £30,000.