In an interview then-owner Peter Wheeler, said that TVR had tried to record the car's power on an engine dyno. The
dyno was rated at 1,000 bhp (750 kW) but the test resulted in its
input shaft being broken.
To get an approximate figure TVR engineers tested each bank individually; the result was 480 bhp (360 kW) per bank, suggesting a total rating of 960 bhp (720 kW). Wheeler, no newcomer to high performance cars and an experienced racer in the TVR Tuscan Challenge,
drove one of the finished prototypes home and concluded that the car was unusable on the road, in his opinion simply too powerful.
