rick81721
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Rally cars just look silly. Some real race cars look great - like this:
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Rally cars just look silly. Some real race cars look great - like this:
JerseyPete
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Are you saying that this doesn't look like an MG you would see on the street??
Lancia Scorpion was always my favorite.
JDurk
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Try to expand your mind...."Form follows function" makes race cars beautiful....Their look is driven solely by their purpose.
a 68 CJ super STOCK car....The whole point of the class is for the cars to be stock appearing....and it went 120-125mph in a straight line. Not 150mph on narrow European dirt roads
I agree with @JerseyPete on the 037, it looked amazing....but think of the Lancia Delta....The factory had to make this front drive econobox
into this REAR engined AWD, 500hp (turbocharged and supercharged) race car that turn on a dime and hit jumps....go150+mph
THEN they had to make 500? (I forget the group b homogation number) street versions.....
Making those race cars into street cars is really an unbelievable engineering challenge.....and just shows how much MONEY the factories were willing to spend to win group b....
I mean thats how you get amazing cars like the Gt40, and the ford thunderbolt, and the superbird, and the audi S1, etc, etc.....when the factories say, ok...fuck it...we dont care what it costs, we just want to win....Almost never happens anymore sadly.
rick81721
Lothar
Are you saying that this doesn't look like an MG you would see on the street??
Lancia Scorpion was always my favorite.
Reminds me of this monstrosity
rick81721
Lothar
Try to expand your mind...."Form follows function" makes race cars beautiful....Their look is driven solely by their purpose.
a 68 CJ super STOCK car....The whole point of the class is for the cars to be stock appearing....and it went 120-125mph in a straight line. Not 150mph on narrow European dirt roads
I agree with @JerseyPete on the 037, it looked amazing....but think of the Lancia Delta....The factory had to make this front drive econobox
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into this REAR engined AWD, 500hp (turbocharged and supercharged) race car that turn on a dime and hit jumps....go150+mph
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THEN they had to make 500? (I forget the group b homogation number) street versions.....
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Making those race cars into street cars is really an unbelievable engineering challenge.....and just shows how much MONEY the factories were willing to spend to win group b....
I mean thats how you get amazing cars like the Gt40, and the ford thunderbolt, and the superbird, and the audi S1, etc, etc.....when the factories say, ok...fuck it...we dont care what it costs, we just want to win....Almost never happens anymore sadly.
I appreciate the technology, only commenting on the aesthetics - they look awful. Even if I was a billionaire, I would have zero desire to own one.
Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
Real race cars don't run the same 1/4 mile times as a stock Honda Civic.
rick81721
Lothar
Depends which one. And a Tesla Plaid S will beat pretty much any production car on the planet - even a $3.5 million Bugatti Chiron SS.
The Audi and Lancia rally cars look incredible. I spent a lot of time watching WRC when I first got Speed channel after college and have a huge soft spot for almost any actual rally car (perhaps not the 911 Turbo shown above if you want to call that a "rally car" or most of the safari builds).
JerseyPete
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68 CJ mustang is an easy one since it was the Super stock national record holder that year in its class.....They would run 11.1-11.2 @120-125 range....at best. I know a little more about this setup since my Dad built himself one.....Which, sorry to say, would curb stomp any honda civic type whatever.
rick81721
Lothar
68 CJ mustang is an easy one since it was the Super stock national record holder that year in its class.....They would run 11.1-11.2 @120-125 range....at best. I know a little more about this setup since my Dad built himself one.....Which, sorry to say, would curb stomp any honda civic type whatever.
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Agreed. Everyone thinks Walter Rohl is the sh*t and he is! But my favorite is Michelle Mouton; she is the coolest character and super bad ass. If I could own an original piece of Audi history, it would be a factory ride driven by Michelle Mouton to a WRC title.
This is not a car; this a rocket ship…..so badass……….
Well, maybe if it weren't blue.
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Well, maybe if it weren't blue.
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Blue, again.
Maybe, a different color for each day of the week.
rick81721
Lothar
like the color but such ugly wheels!
These are just my ultimate dream car. The air cooled 911 I always wanted but better in every way.