With the Speed 12, TVR built a 7.7-liter V-12 engine out of two of its inline-sixes and crammed that engine into a Kevlar and carbon-fiber body that weighed roughly the same as a first-generation ...

The Cerbera Speed 12. With a 7-liter engine shoved into its 1,000 kilo frame, TVR was talking about an estimated top speed near 240 MPH. An attempt to determine the car's horsepower ended with a ...

There are few surer signs of automotive perfection in the lunatic sense than the circumstances surrounding the TVR Speed 12's birth—or ... a one-ton plastic car powered by a 1000 HP V12 engine.

TVR first conceived the Cerbera Speed 12 as a race car that it had hoped could rival the McLaren F1 GTR. At the time of its development, it was known as ‘Project 7/12’, denoting the fact that ...

Unlike McLaren, TVR didn't source a high-powered engine from another manufacturer for the Cerbera Speed 12 but opted for one developed in-house.

Back in 1999 TVR – then a British-owned, "build 'em in a shed" enterprise - unveiled a new concept car at The Motor Show. Called the Cerbera Speed 12, it took an existing model from TVR's range ...

The only Cerbera Speed 12 intended for road use to still exist just traded hands for nearly three-quarters of $1 million. That’s the most money that anyone has ever paid for a TVR, publically at ...

The ultimate TVR would run the full-house 800bhp engine and cost £245,000, and the now badged Cerbera Speed 12 was ready in 2000.Deposits began to pile up, and a new race car was rolled out, too ...

Produced as a GT1 racing series iteration of the TVR Cerbera line, the Speed 12 was a marvel on the road. That is, so long as TVR didn't overstate the vehicle's performance for the sake of ...