RE: Chris Harris video: Sport Quattro vs. RS200
Discussion
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Loads of interesting articles by Chris so far on ph, only on the site a month and plently of interesting stuff to read and watch - he def has improved pistonheads and i look forward to all his articles
Bring on more vids like this - please have video reviews of some or ideally all the following
Merc 190 Evo 2
E30 M3 Sport Evo
Integrale Evo [or any 'grale really]
Lancia 037
BMW M1 [old one]
70's 240Z [or any old school jap performace cars]
1000bhp R34 GTR - or this new 1200BHP R35 - I would love to see some video footage of it
Carrera GT
Some old 911's - e.g. a 993 RS
and so on
Loads of interesting articles by Chris so far on ph, only on the site a month and plently of interesting stuff to read and watch - he def has improved pistonheads and i look forward to all his articles
Bring on more vids like this - please have video reviews of some or ideally all the following
Merc 190 Evo 2
E30 M3 Sport Evo
Integrale Evo [or any 'grale really]
Lancia 037
BMW M1 [old one]
70's 240Z [or any old school jap performace cars]
1000bhp R34 GTR - or this new 1200BHP R35 - I would love to see some video footage of it
Carrera GT
Some old 911's - e.g. a 993 RS
and so on
Edited by D200 on Saturday 4th February 11:07
Carparticus said:
Also, I've never known another car which can sit on the drive back home cooling off, at midnight, with a bright red glowing turbo assembly showing through the transparent engine cover ! Wish I'd taken a photo of that.
Just spent the past half hour reading this thread and others linked about your RS200 ownership experience. Great stuff, cheers
LotusOmega375D said:
It only took 18 months from the end of Group B before the Group A cars started beating the previous best Group B stage times (Tour de Corse 1988). Most of those Group A cars didn't even manage 300bhp at that time.
Some of the early Group A cars very quickly had nearer 380-400bhp, despite the rules stating a maximum of 300bhp. It wasn't properly governed until the early 90's, around the time of the Toyota turbo scandal (1995?). The book 'Rally Cars' by Reinhard Klein gives some good info.Cracking video review by the way PH, enjoyed it!
legalknievel said:
How long before he ends up with a tv show?
Cue all these people on the messageboards for $insertTVchannel "Who is he why is he on my TV go away he can't even powerslide"Plus he'd be exposing himself to a lot of non-petrolheads and... well even us lot are a pretty contentious bunch of people who've sometimes taken enough offense at a video to have it expunged from the human consciousness... imagine the riots on the streets if that McGTR episode had been shown on TV!
JBT said:
Some of the early Group A cars very quickly had nearer 380-400bhp, despite the rules stating a maximum of 300bhp. It wasn't properly governed until the early 90's, around the time of the Toyota turbo scandal (1995?). The book 'Rally Cars' by Reinhard Klein gives some good info.
Cracking video review by the way PH, enjoyed it!
Indeed, there was some funny business going on in rallying at the time. There was some suggestion that the FIA was aware that cars were running well above their quoted 300bhp (reports of Lancia Delta Integrales and Escort Cosworths doing nearly 400bhp were common). But once again, it was Toyota who looked suspicious at times. Now the Celica GT4 ST205's complex butterfly clip turbo cheat was very clever, but in the previous generation of Celica they had been accused of using rocket fuel! To be fair, that Celica really was shifting when the allegation was made.Cracking video review by the way PH, enjoyed it!
JBT said:
Some of the early Group A cars very quickly had nearer 380-400bhp, despite the rules stating a maximum of 300bhp. It wasn't properly governed until the early 90's, around the time of the Toyota turbo scandal (1995?). The book 'Rally Cars' by Reinhard Klein gives some good info.
Cracking video review by the way PH, enjoyed it!
Well I was going to buy that until I saw the price!!Cracking video review by the way PH, enjoyed it!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rally-Cars-Reinhard-Klein/...
Production guys - any reason?What a brilliant video. The RS200 is my all time favourite and has been since I was 10 years old. Funnily enough, that was when it released. I experienced a passenger ride in one, round Knockhill with Jimmy McRae driving, when I was 11 years old. It was by far the quickest thing I've been in, and even now I remember it clearly.
The Audi, well, nah, not really my cup of tea, but Steve Perez's restored rally version, that really is the business!!
The Audi, well, nah, not really my cup of tea, but Steve Perez's restored rally version, that really is the business!!
SonnyM said:
retrorider said:
FTAO Chris Harris: As you are a rally nut please do a visit and vid of Juha Kankkunens car collection...
FTAO Chris Harris: Could you also be the first person on earth to blag a personal visit and hoon in some of the Sultan of Brunei's collection?
Juha's private collection seems to be all over the mags at the moment
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