ONE of essentially the most well-known names in high-performance engineering is ready to make a comeback. TWR (Tom Walkinshaw Racing) will start a brand new life as a “bespoke creator of vehicles”, persevering with a legacy that goals to “stretch the well-known title into the fashionable automotive world”.
Fashioned by Tom Walkinshaw’s son Fergus, and enterprise associate John Kane, the ‘new’ TWR seeks to “pioneer technological advances each on street and observe”, whereas in search of to protect and defend the analogue driving expertise.
“It provides me a large amount of satisfaction that the TWR title will dwell on for a brand new era,” mentioned TWR founder, Fergus Walkinshaw.
“Excessive-performance engineering runs within the blood of the Walkinshaw household, and ever for the reason that authentic TWR closed its doorways I’ve longed to discover a approach to proceed the household legacy. By way of this new iteration of TWR we can’t solely have fun the historical past and heritage of the unique TWR, but in addition push the boundaries of our tasks additional than ever earlier than.
“This new era of TWR is in the beginning an engineering firm that may make automobiles, relatively than a automotive maker doing engineering. And that’s an essential distinction. We are going to make use of cutting-edge know-how, combining new experience with conventional craft to construct world-class merchandise that make an announcement of what this new TWR is all about.”
Whereas a separate entity to the unique Tom Walkinshaw Racing, the brand new firm will share what Mr Walkinshaw describes as “a lot of the DNA and spirit that helped the unique TWR model to develop into a world chief in efficiency and motorsport engineering”.
A single teaser picture of the primary automobile to put on the brand new TWR nameplate has been revealed, alongside a message that claims merely, “particulars of the primary TWR mission will probably be unveiled shortly”.
“We purpose to construct some actually spectacular and modern vehicles, unconstrained by the rulebooks and styling calls for of OEMs.
“We’ve scoured the efficiency and motorsport engineering worlds to assemble an extremely proficient technical group, together with some members who have been a part of the unique TWR, which simply provides to our depth of data and experience. It’s from this base that TWR can push ahead for a brilliant new future.”
The unique TWR was established in 1975 and have become a drive to be reckoned with in each the efficiency automotive and motorsports worlds.
Tom Walkinshaw was instrumental in sparking an curiosity in motorsport from many producers, with touring automotive favourites together with the Holden Commodore, Mazda RX-7, Rover Vitesse, and Volvo 850 Property.
Then there are the street automotive tasks… The Aston Martin DB7 and Renault Clio V6 owe their very existence to TWR.
TWR additionally loved a extremely profitable partnership with Jaguar. Collectively they produced the notorious XJS, which went on to win each the 1984 European Touring Automobile Championship and 1985 Bathurst 1000.
Maybe essentially the most legendary TWR-Jaguar tasks have been the succession of monstrous Le Mans-winning Jaguar XJR Group C designs. The DNA of those automobiles was then used to create what would develop into maybe the last word Jaguar manufacturing automobiles, with TWR closely concerned within the creation of each the XJ220 and XJR-15.
