This car is the Devil. There's only one of these left and it's way too powerful for nearly any track or road.In '98 the gearheads over at TVR had a huge amibition. They wanted to unseat the McLaren F1 as the worlds fastest supercar. While they didn't reach this goal, they created a monster, one that looks as if it can eat Toyota Corolla's for lunch.
The Cerbera Speed 12 was a huge departure from any other car TVR had ever produced. It didn't have much in common with their existing stable, and it didn't resemble the other models much either.
The car got its namesake from the conceptual engine, whose production was pure lunacy. The nuts over at TVR decided it would be a great idea to join two of their already ridiculously powerful Speed Six engines to a single crank and modify the engine to full race spec. The massive resulting 7.7 liter, 1000+ bhp V12 was so strong, that the TVR in-house dyno broke when they where trying to tune it. This awesome power, and the ridiculous costs associated with keeping it running, were the primary reason why very few cars were built
. As little as five engines were created!The original purpose of the Cerbera was to enter the GT1 class of FIA GT motor sport and eventually end up competing in LeMans. Sadly, new regulations made the Speed 12 race cars obsolete before they were even fully completed. Instead, they raced in the British GT championship with huge rectrictors that kept power down around 700 bhp. Even with this, the drivers still had a hard time keeping the power on the ground and any unrestricted car would have been even worse.
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