TVR Car Club - TVR Typhon / T400 / T440 Details

Typhon

In production: 2000 - 2006
Models: TuscanR, Typhon, T400R, T440R

History

2000 - First shown at the NEC Motorshow in 2000, the Tuscan R was a development of the Tuscan race car for road use.

2002 - There were two models offered; a GT Championship spec race car and a road car which could be ordered as a 2+2 variant. They were offered with a 4.2 litre version of the TVR speed six engine and a suggested 450bhp. As the total weight was around 1,000kg this was double the power to weight ratio of a Porsche 911 Turbo! It used a TVR in house design of sequential six speed gearbox and TVR quoted a top speed of over 200mph carrying four adults. The first batch of 50 sold out at the show even with a £75,000 price tag.

During the subsequent development and prior to production of customer cars the model name was changed to T400 to reflect a new offering of a 400bhp engine with a standard Borg Warner T5 gearbox and T440R for the Le Mans race cars. The first prototype road car had the Tuscan R body and was subsequently painted in DeWalt T400R colours and although a non-runner at this point was used during the press launch onboard HMS Invincible, the following cars had the later T400R body style.

Records do not exist from the factory so production numbers are very unclear, but most agree that one true Typhon exists, with a Vortex supercharger and six speed sequential gearbox putting out about 550bhp. Ex TVR staff suggest that four Typhons may have been built altogether though.

Technical Specifications

Typhon / T400
Engine: TVR Speed 6 straight six, supercharged
Capacity (cc): 4000cc
Power: 585bhp
Torque: 467lb/ft
Performance: 0-62mph less than 4 secs
Top Speed: 215mph

Typhon / T440
Engine: TVR Speed 6 straight six
Capacity (cc): 4200cc
Power: 440bhp
Performance: 0-62mph less than 4 secs
Top Speed: 200mph

Price (2001): £75,000

Production numbers:
Typhon: 3-4 approx
Estimated and very approximate figures as there are no factory records available