The World's Only TVR Cerbera Speed 12 Is Looking To Terrify Its Next Owner | Carscoops carscoops
This is the world’s only TVR Cerbera Speed 12 ever built specifically for road use and it is heading to auction on May 20 thanks toTVR first conceived the Cerbera Speed 12 as a race car that it had hoped could rivalGTR. At the time of its development, it was known as ‘Project 7/12’, denoting the fact that it had two Cerbera Speed Six straight-six engines that were fused together, forming a 7.7-liter V12. This brute of an engine was good for approximately 960 hp.
While the brand’s hopes of rivaling McLaren at Le Mans were dashed, it turned its attention to developing a road-going version of the car. Curiously,boss Peter Wheeler axed the road car project after testing a prototype on the street, stating that it was too powerful and wild to be sold to customers. Production plans were immediately scrapped and the prototypes were disassembled, except for this one.Speed 12 was finished in 2005 and was later upgraded by its first owner.
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