# TVR Sagaris Review ## Метаданные - **Канал:** Throttle House - **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSlHRkRytt0 - **Дата:** 04.06.2026 - **Длительность:** 17:37 - **Просмотры:** 379,015 - **Источник:** https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/52773 ## Описание The 2005 TVR Sagaris is a low-production British sports car, with a powerful 4.0 L inline six engine and incredibly unique styling. It makes a whopping 406 naturally aspirated horsepower, has a 7800 rpm redline and comes with a manual transmission. The entire car is also incredibly light thanks to its tubular chassis and integrated roll cage. This means the Sagaris can hit 60 mph in a claimed 3.7 seconds. But how is it to drive? And is it as scary to drive as you might think? Thomas and James can’t wait to find out! We hope you enjoy the episode. Subscribe! Videography: Karston Chong and Daniel Mason Editing: Karston Chong Sound: Harrison Dickson and Karston Chong Magical Genius Logistics Planners: James Engelsman and Joey Alford Was present: Thomas Holland EXTRA THROTTLE HOUSE! https://www.youtube.com/c/ExtraThrottleHouse Throttle House Merch! https://www.thethrottlehouse.com/merchandise/ Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/thethrottlehouse/ #TVR #Sargaris #Sportscar ## Транскрипт ### Segment 1 (00:00 - 05:00) [] Heat. You're watching Bottle House. I'm Thomas. And I'm James. And this is the TVR Sagaras. or Cigarus, however you want to say it. It remains the final production offering of car manufacturer TVR, a company named because its creator just grabbed some letters from his own name. Thanks, Trevor. British through and through. It is a handmade lightweight non-nonsense sports car that thanks to local owner Rob now gets to appear on Throttle House. Only about 200 were made and it was 50,000 British pound sterling when it was new. This particular car has already had a bit of a life in the spotlight which we'll get to later. But all you need to know for now is that like the ancient Battleax it's named after, it is not a product of complexity. It's the product of dreamers. Oh yes. Oh, that is a long throttle pedal. You got to bury your foot deep in there. And then that will get you to 60 mph in 3. 7 seconds. It's raw. It's analog. And it's powerful. This weighs 1,000 pounds less than a Lotus Amir. And yet somehow from its naturally aspirated straight six, it makes the same 400 horsepower in 2005. That's quite remarkable to think people went mad for the E46 M3 engine only a few years before. This has 40 more horsepower than the M3 CSL and a lot less weight to move. It achieves its horsepower with a big 4 L of displacement, independent throttle bodies, and by being okay with decades of trial and error by its own customers on previous TVRs. Because apparently with the Sagaras, it finally got quite a bit more reliable despite its enhanced power. And somehow it's not that scary to drive, but the driving position is great. The shifter feels great. The throttle pedal long thrown but light. The clutch reasonably weighted. Lots of control. Feels good. The torque curve is flat from about 2500 RPM. That's my foot to the floor there. It builds, but not so much. You've basically got all of that torque down low thanks to the 4 m of displacement. And for the same reason, I guess it doesn't sing on its way up. It's quite deep. It's quite guttural. But it's not sonorous. It's British. Someone made this while drinking a bottle of water. Bottle of water. Yes. Let's make those shift lights shine. Okay. So, it is quick. It No, it is. It's quick. I asked Thomas if he wanted to come with me for this, but apparently I've got a bad reputation with him of spinning in dangerous cars. That's okay. It's lighter this way. One of the most unique sports car experiences out there. What a wonderful, wonderful thing. All right. The thing you have to know about the Sagaras is that it's not a normal car. Most modern cars or most cars ever are unibody chassis. That means they're a bunch of steel shapes kind of put together roughly in the shape of a car, then some steel panels put over top. This is a tubular frame steel chassis with fiberglass panels. That means that this is basically a giant roll cage with some papermâe on the outside. But that's not the only ### Segment 2 (05:00 - 10:00) [5:00] reason it's light. It's also light because it has absolutely no safety systems whatsoever. That's right, no anti-lock brakes, no traction control, and no airbags. Why? Well, then TVR boss Peter Wheeler genuinely thought that they provided a false sense of confidence. They would breed laziness, complacency, and the driver was better off in a car that required attention and skill. A car that simply handled well, assuming he knew how to handle it. Interesting philosophy. Let's see. The immediacy with which the car changes direction is really No, notice me. See me fly out of the seat. I didn't expect it to turn in that hard. Unreal. Wow. The way that it goes over the bumps, too, is just it's so delicate. It's just unreal. And you know what? I'm not afraid really. Some cars you get in, you're instantly afraid in them. This is not one of those. I just kind of You hook into it. You connect to it right away. Interesting. It's just the It's the gift of lightweight. It instantly lets you know what the car is and what it isn't. How it works. When you do this, it does that. It really is making me responsible, right? It's like, ask not what your car could do for you. Ask what you can do for your car. I'm valuable. This is the first time I've felt valued in my life. There's the warning light on the dashboard for fuel. It's actually uh TVR just threw in a couple buttons on the back of the steering wheel here. You just click those and it goes away. You just kind of you just do this just this motion and fixes the problem. The steering is just excellent. It's actually quite light, but that's not because it's over boosted. That's just because the car is light. The philosophy works. It really does. There's no complacency. I'm aware of the fact there's no ABS, but it it's not it's not an issue. Since I can detect the limit of the brakes and the tires so easily through my butt, my hands, and my feet, I'm not nervous pushing it. I'm in control. I'm responsible. That's a lovely car. Really is. Wow. I spent a bit more time soaking up what is one of the great drivers cars and eventually I started wondering why this company isn't still leading the charge of performance cars. Then just as I pulled in to chat to James, the Saguras decided it was done functioning for the day. And as I rolled in using silent momentum only, I remembered why TVR is no longer with us. Right then. — I think we can say it made it. — That counts, right? — That counts. This It's actually a better angle. Anyway, this is a lovely car to drive. — Sonus is great. — Great. And it looks good stationary as well, which is — which is a good thing, I guess. — Really good thing. So, it's surprising because like you hear that's that much horsepower. You hear no driver aids. You hear all of those things and you go in a little bit nervous. — Yes. Right. — Yeah. Your knuckles are white before you've even touched the wheel. — But there is nothing to be nervous about. — No, — it drives incredibly nicely. And — we both immediately died when we drove it. — That No, there would be no planes. — True. — Yes. In heaven, there's no planes when I'm trying to make a video for YouTube. — Yeah, — we actually are investing in some anti-aircraft firms at the moment. — So, check out the side exit exhaust. — I know they are really cool. I don't think I've ever seen that before. It's — so I read, — okay, — and from a very reliable source. Yes, — it was a YouTube comment. Okay, — that they are side exit like that because when they were doing the testing to get type approved, they disconnected one of them, the one facing the sound tester — and then passed the test and as a result kept it like that. — I hope that's true. — I know it's like the Colin Chapman thing ### Segment 3 (10:00 - 15:00) [10:00] where he sent Lotus 7 across. — Yes, exactly. — To uninstall — and uh launcher did something similar. — But I don't think it's true. That one's not true. — Oh, really? Okay. — Uh another potential legend actually. These louvers on the hood. Louver. Yeah. But they're not because they're not there's not cut out. They're just a shape in the fender. Yeah. Right. Um now I think the legend went that they were cut out and then stones would get kicked up and hit the windscreen. So TVR was nice enough to just cap them off for you. — Mhm. — I've heard that's not true. I've heard that potentially the truth is it was too expensive to cut them out after this came out of the fiberglass mold. So they just said here they are. They look good, don't they? The attitude about everything we learn at this company is like, — you know, it's fun. Yeah. — You're making a car that's going to be like people's lives are going to depend on this. Like, — you better be good. — Learn how to drive, son. — It is at least painted exquisitly in chameleon orange. — Is that the name? — Chameleon orange. So, it does change depending on where you're looking at from I — you might see yellow. I see a sort of a lighter orange going to dark orange. Point is, what do you see when you see this car? — What? I see a TVR because you can't see anything else. — I see a British Viper. — Oh, — I see. This gives me the at least the same vibes and that same road presence as when we drove that Viper ACR, which was Oh my god, look at that. — Yeah, I know. It's incredibly cool. There's not a part of it that I don't like. Do you know what I mean? Like — every angle. — I I'm not a huge fan of this style of uh rear wing situation here. Anyway, I love that you can see the roll cage stitched through the glass here. That's really, really cool looking. — You know what? You know what this is? This is the Brits realizing, and I'm not disparaging the Brits, — right? That would technically be treason. — Yeah. — But this is the Brits realizing what you want in a sports car. Looks, sound, power, raw, analog. It's everything that everyone's now going, "Hang on, we should make resto mods to recapture this. " They already had it. This is 2005. — It is everything that you want in a sports car. There's There isn't actually a single thing. You know what? I wouldn't mind some ABS just because then you don't have to be terrified to drive it in the rain. I don't mind the no traction control thing. That's fine. But ABS is nice. — It's lovely. Yeah, — it's a comfort, you know. — And you know what? You look at the other stuff the Brits were making at the time. You got the Lotus Lease. — Yeah. — And you got the Noble M400. — Yeah. Well, it's also like an Aston Martin Vantage. — Yeah. But that's real. That's a real car. — I'm talking about the Pinocchios, you know? — Right. I see what you're saying. Yeah. How do you open the hood? — And credit to the Americans, they were making the Ford GT at the time. — That's true. Yes. — Okay. So, this that horseshoe that's you have to unscrew that one. But to take this piece off — Oh, this is like a little mini axis panel. — You pull these out. — Okay. — And then do a little quarter turn. — Yeah. — Like that. — Yeah. And then you take the whole thing. — Carefully pick up this piece of fiberglass. — Doesn't look very heavy. — There's your straight six. — Individual throttle bodies. — Yeah. — Mid-mounted. — It's a really cool looking thing. And I see the uh radiator fans going that way. Air comes in there. I guess — timeless. If this came out today, — you could tell me this is a modern car. — Look at the bubble on the roof for the driver, by the way. — I know. — You see that? Just for the driver. — That wasn't even there this morning. It was just in the sun. — It actually went over a one really big bump. And that's why it looks — I like that they've done clean things. I like that the boot opens by pressing the Sagurus logo. I like that the opening the doors is hidden under the wing mirrors. Like it's clean without doing electric recessed door handles that pop out. — Well, there's a lot of funny buttons. You want to go take a look inside? — Yeah, — there's some fun stuff in there. — Yeah. I just got to be good. Can't believe this. — This is how you open the door. Watch this. — Isn't that cool? — Yeah. — Look at this. — Look at what? There's not much to look at. Oh, it's like a swoop — and then three buttons. — Listen, this was designed by four of the most English men you've ever heard of. — Okay, — are you ready? — Yeah. What are the names? You got them? — Graeme Brown, Lee Hudgets, Darren Hobbs, and Martin Smith. — You just need a Gary in there and you're — Sounds like I'm doing the register for the rugby team. — Yeah. — Thanks, boys. — Yeah. No, it's uh it's lovely and Spartan and very well, you know what? I would say driver focused, but it's actually transmission focused. Like the transmission — takes the center stage here. — Yeah. The transmission is very prioritized in the cabin. — Yeah. It's a hell of a tunnel. — Yeah. There's like there's no dead pedal for the clutch. So, you just hover your foot over the clutch and like there's no I'm on the door. Like I'm sitting on the door frame. — It's not thirds, it's fifths. You're in the This feels like the inside of a Hummer H1 where it's got like a giant That's right. — workstation in between. — Yeah. Yeah. And there nothing's labeled, right? Like that's the door. ### Segment 4 (15:00 - 17:00) [15:00] Like that's their door switch. There's the window switches. No idea what that one does. — It's a mystery item. — Um these I assume are climate control. — Got a bit of storage space. — Yeah. Uh you can see the roll bar, which is really cool. Yeah, — see the roll bar. — Um yeah, I don't know. There's not honestly much to talk about. It's leather trimmed. It's nice. The driving position is good despite the fact that I am like sitting on the bit that you usually rest your elbow on for the door. — Yes. — Do you know what I I think the most shocking thing is just how not scary it is. — No, I that is the easily the biggest takeaway of the day is that I went in going like, "Okay, hold on a second. " — Yeah. — Like no ABS, no traction control, 400 or something. Like I — the visuals of it being inside with the roll cage. — Yeah. No, it's so easy to drive. So easy to around the corners. Everything is just perfectly intuitive and feedbacks brilliantly. It's a really cool car. It really is. Well, we've started our introduction to TVR — with the latest TV — with the top basically, right? It's only downhill from here from what I've heard. This is when they fixed the handling. — When we first started trying to film TVRs about 57 years ago, — there was rumor that it was coming back and they were redoing the Griffith and then there was like EVs or not EVs. — Um, and that hasn't actually changed in this time. No, — still no sign of it. — No sign. But I did say when I was driving it, China, — don't — y — don't you buy TVR and start making a Lotus Electra alternative. — Please don't do that. Leave it. Leave it alone. — Leave Britain alone. — Um, one final fun fact about this particular car. — Go on. — This is the car that was actually in Top Gear that Jeremy Clarkson drove all those years ago. — All right. So, once again, we're Jeremy Clarkson sloppy seconds. — Yes. Why does that keep happening? We signed a contract for one of them. — That's Yeah, that's true. — Sloppy seconds it may be, but sloppy it is not. It's refreshingly analog, hardcore, and yet somehow could do the date night duty just fine, as long as you're okay with Ubering home. Could it sound better? Yes. Could it have benefited from maybe an airbag or ABS? Also, yes. It's not perfect, but it looks the part, drives like the bee's knees, and is 100% British. And that's pretty cool. Thanks for watching.