Try
TVR themselves for some background info. I believe you are refering to the Tuscan R which can be ordered as a pre-prepped race car.
However, the Tuscan is already one of the best performance streetcars on a punch per pound basis that you can buy anywhere in the world. Manufactured by TVR Engineering in Blackpool, England and headed by a guy called Peter Wheeler they make 'real sports cars for real drivers' and have a very strongly anti-electronics bias - they don't put TC or ABS in thier cars for example saying that all the TC you need is in your right foot. Needless to say, if you put
450 BHP into a front engine RWD car with no electronic nanny to protect you then it will get an (unjustified) reputation as an evil handler. In my opinion this is more to do with people who are accustomed to the cars ECU compensating for a lack of ability than any inherent flaws in the TVR chassis design or dynamics. If you hop straight from a M5 into a TVR thinking that you know how to handle 400+BHP you will get babdly bitten. TVRs need to be grown into, slowly building speed and learning the limits. They are not easly expolited (try a Caterham for that).
If budget, no electronic, performance street cars are your thing try the TVR Chimera - for example
this one for under £17K STG has a 4L V8. 285BHP, 0 - 60 in 4.7 secs; 0 - 100 in 11.2 secs, max speed 160mph. Better yet try the superb
Catherham, available new from under £5K (in kit form), but try out the awsome Caterham Blackbird - 1.1L engine (from the Honda superbike); 440Kgs kerb weight; 170 BHP; max rpm 11,750 (NOT a typo!); sequential 6 speed shift; 0 - 60 in 3.9 secs; top speed 132mph...
