{"id":1793846,"date":"2026-02-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1793846"},"modified":"2026-02-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T21:00:00","slug":"thrills-without-the-bills-the-tvr-tuscan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1793846","title":{"rendered":"Thrills without the bills: the TVR Tuscan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"HtmlContent\" class=\"MarkUpWrapper-sc-t20i90-0 hQwWlJ\">\n<h3>What is it?<\/h3>\n<p>A twin-seat GT; raw, fast reacting and slightly scary. Much like a Mercedes-AMG GT. One is made in Blackpool, UK, the other Affalterbach, Germany.<\/p>\n<h3>Why are we interested?<\/h3>\n<p>Because although TVRs aren\u2019t easy to find, they\u2019re the progenitors of cars like the AMG GT. Long nose, front engined, rear wheel drive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"HtmlContent\" class=\"MarkUpWrapper-sc-t20i90-0 hQwWlJ\">\n<h3>So&#8230; it\u2019s the same but not?<\/h3>\n<p>The Tuscan came with different outputs (1, 2 and S); you want a 360bhp Speed Six. You can only have a 4.0 V8 AMG GT.<\/p>\n<h3>What should I buy?<\/h3>\n<p>The new MercGT starts at \u00a3100k, but you can get a secondhand Merc GT gen 1 from \u00a340k. A Tuscan can be had for well under that secondhand price.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it? A twin-seat GT; raw, fast reacting and slightly scary. Much like a Mercedes-AMG GT. One is made in Blackpool, UK, the other Affalterbach, Germany. Why are we interested? Because although TVRs aren\u2019t easy to find, they\u2019re the progenitors of cars like the AMG GT. Long nose, front engined, rear wheel drive. So&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,237],"class_list":["post-1793846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-topgear-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1793846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1793846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1793846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1793846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}