As such, the only remaining solution was to make Group A touring cars directly based on production models which had a good safety record since it replaced Group 1, 2, and 3 in , as the new top class in the WRC, effective January 1st A : No, the Stratos was homologated for Group 4 in and was designed nearly a whole decade before Group B. Its purposeful looks makes it often mistaken as being a Group B car in popular culture and social media.
Furthermore, its homologation had expired before Group B started thus preventing privateers to compete with the car in the WRC. However, the Group B Lancia Rallye is considered its spiritual successor and shares many design features with the Stratos. A: Since they were produced in such limited numbers, for road cars sometimes less due to cheating , it makes them very rare, and the rally cars even rarer 20 units per evolution use.
However, some lesser quality and less famous homologation models can be found in various classified sites mostly around Europe. Nearly all rally cars are now owned by museums, by historical organisations, or are in private collections and very rarely come up for sale.
However, the best place to look for these are in high-profile auctions, again mostly around Europe. Owning a genuine Group B rally car is a badge of honour: you will most likely be entered into a registry and be held to some standards about the custody of the car. Replicas, although not the real deal, are the cheapest and easiest way to get the feeling of owning a Group B machine. A: A few independent performance tests were performed in Europe at the peak of Group B The most powerful of the bunch achieved the kph mph dash in about two and a half seconds on tarmac; Lancia Delta S4 2.
A: Comparing the two goes back to the adage of comparing a caveman with a spiked club to a modern soldier with a rifle: both are deadly but both achieve their might in a much different way. Group B rally cars, albeit they packed the latest technology of the mids, were primitive brutes; there were no high-tech electronic driving aids, four-wheel drive technology was closer to what you would find on a farm tractor, the suspensions were sluggish and prone to overheating, and the engine powerbands were very narrow high-RPM with very average torque figures.
Anti-lag measures involved mostly the use of LFB left-foot braking. In short, driveability was very poor and the cars a real challenge to drive to their full potential: this was confirmed by all modern WRC drivers who had the opportunity to also test drive a Group B car. A lot of time was spent cutting the weight of the second-gen R WRC down to kg, while other updates included a larger rear wing to compliment the already beastly bodykit.
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At least the Yaris that has since come out has been a dominant force. Triumph didn't always fail with the TR7, after years and years of complete disappointment they finally dropped a big V8 under the hood to start winning. Before that, though they managed to think that using a motor that was 40 horsepower lower than the competition would be a worthy investment.
The Nissan Micra Rally car is the cheapest way to get into real rally competitions. It's perhaps one of the worst cars you can race with but at least it's so inexpensive that when it breaks it can be quickly replaced. Also, they're street legal so you can take it to shops. That's probably what it's best at anyway. You'd think that after a real success like the that it would be difficult to fail.
That's not the case though. The was considered ugly to say the least about its styling and it only gets worse. It was so bad at being reliable and fast that one of the drivers was quoted as saying "I'm fed up with this car".
That's pretty rare for racing drivers. I also happen to own a WRX. The one above was the worst one they've ever sent out to go fast on dirt. It was the end of their WRC program and never finished better than 2nd. That's a dramatic fall from what was eternal glory for the WRX in the 90s and s.
I guess one good thing for Subaru was that Mitsubishi screwed up their last car too. Look at that wacky wing and dopey roof scoop. Nothing they did added up to any form of reliability or speed and that resulted in complete failure for their team. Renault sold these to the public. They're hard to find but wonderfully fast and featureful. You can take them racing without much modification at all, and they're very competitive too.
Imagine if Ford released a Focus RS with the motor in the back. That's something like what Renault did. Things tend to go well when you're so focused on a project that you lose yourself and keep a singular goal in mind.
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