My previous car was a delight (Dax Tojeiro with a punch Chevy 6.3l engine) and I’d had that for eight years, the last three years of which I’d decided that I wanted to change it but couldn’t decide what to replace it with.  It took three hard years of looking, considering, discounting and then moving onto something else.

 

My requirements were fairly simple : Lots of poke,  hard top and space for a little luggage (e.g. a weekend away).   It came down to two vehicles :  the Noble M400 or the Sagaris.

 

My wife tried both of them for size and discounted the M400 due to the driving position – annoyingly I had quite liked the car but kicked it on the head due to lack of any decent bag storage space.  Even with the  luggage kit you can’t get anything of size in the car so it was the Sagaris.  That’s it – it came down to luggage space !

 

So in January of 2015 we paid a visit to see one in Needham Market which looked like we might like it, despite the warnings of don’t buy the first one you go and see that’s exactly what we did and that’s where this all started.    On a production line that’s that small (rumours are it’s 211 cars in total and at time of writing it says there’s just 84 left running on the UK roads) you can’t be picky.   The mileage was good, the paint was a great colour choice but the down side was the the previous owner had laid it up for three years or so and I expected a few issues along the way with perished seals, worn rubber etc and I wasn’t really disappointed as the list of problems documents in the initial few months of ownership.

Anyway; if you’re interested the original TVR Car Club Sprint magazine write up of it’s release and the Autocar Road test are below.

https://sagaris.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/TVRCC-Sprint-Article-of-Sagaris.pdf

The original Autocar road test is here.
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