Reborn British sports car manufacturer TVR will launch its new car with a carbon-fibre structure.
The initial production run of the car, which TVR says is to go on sale ?in the coming months? will be built around a ground-effect carbon-fibre composite chassis and body package using the iStream manufacturing concept developed by renowned designer Gordon Murray.
The iStream design and manufacturing techniques simplify the assembly process to allow greater flexibility as well as reducing cost and increasing the car?s safety and rigidity.
An iStream design manufacturing plant can be 20 per cent of the size of a conventional factory, cutting capital investment required by around 80 per cent. The same factory, however, can be used to manufacture different variants and the process also greatly cuts the CO2 emissions created by a car?s full lifecycle. Murray says that early on it became apparent that a carbon-fibre chassis structure could be developed for the new TVR at a lower cost than manufacturing processes previously allowed.
?Our iStream Carbon technology is the world?s first affordable, yet high volume, carbon-fibre chassis and body structure and sets new standards in the automotive industry for chassis lightweighting, rigidity and safety,? he adds.
Gordon Murray launched the Carbon development of his iStream concept in October 2015.
All of the 300-plus customers who have paid a deposit for the car will receive their TVR with the carbon-fibre construction, while it will be a...