Few random facts about this iconic British sports car.
• In italian, una cerbera is a frightening, fierce woman.
• And frightening it was. 0-100 kph took only 4.2 seconds. Back in 1996, that was considered as "neck-breaking" and "too fast for a road car".
• Only McLaren F1 and Ferrari F50 could out-accelerate this suave looking 2+2.
• Pricewise, no more than £40,000 was asked for TVR Cerbera. That was Porsche Boxster money.
• There was a very good reason for this rocket-like performance: Cerbera was the first TVR to be powered by it's own engines.
• There were actually 3 engine options: 4.2 V8 (the fastest) 4.5 V8 (more power, but somehow slower than 4.2) and 4.0 inline-six (smoothest of them all).
• More like a race-car engine, V8 was developed by British racing engine expert Al Melling and TVR engineer John Ravenscroft. It is the main reason why TVR Cerbera is now considered as a true classic.
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