The seat is very uncomfortable and it is all really too much like hard work to drive. I am afraid I probably didn’t handle it as well as I would have liked. I thought it might be intimidating to drive but it was really gentle and it made a lovely sound. But only one look at that extraordinary back end, with its gun-barrel exhausts and F1-style rear diffuser and you understand the character of this car (love those Maserati-style boomerang tail lights).There must be something in the water in Blackpool, home to Europe’s most petrifying roller-coaster.

On second thoughts, perhaps we should make that “Europe’s two most petrifying roller-coasters”.Julia Barrow, 39, company director from Rossendale, Lancashire Usual car: Jeep Cherokee”Orgasmic, amazing It was everything I dreamed it would be. It is not really very girly, but I think other women will like it too. The handling was perfect and the vision is good for a sports car, although I couldn’t see the end of the bonnet, which does make parking tricky. It is good value for money for the performance you get and what was particularly great was that I could reach the pedals I’m only short.

The seats were brilliant for my back and the fit and finish were excellent The dash was absolutely gorgeous. I would rather watch rugby than play it, to use a comparison the stereotypical TVR driver might understand.The T350C is supposed to be more useable, with a slightly higher driving position and a larger boot. The vast torque on tap makes it so tractable you can just stick it in third gear and drive it like an automatic. I know the T350C is one of the fastest cars in the world; that it has a stentorian 3.6 litre straight six; and race-bred brakes, steering and suspension.And, sure, let me loose in one on a race-track and it would require a pioneering surgical procedure to remove the grin from my face, but out in the real world with grandmas in Micras, tractor ambushes and speed cameras (which I suspect are automatically set to go off for TVRs whatever speed they may be travelling), I find them a little too brutal, too fast, too scary. Typically of TVR, it was an absurdly simple and lightweight solution, yet wholly functional.I tend to prefer looking at, and especially in, TVRs to driving them There, I said it.