Your favourite more than 4 cylinder Rally car?
Discussion
gowmonster said:
dinkel said:
Why an SM Maserati?
Looks great but ... why?
Berw said:
TR7 V8, Saw it at a sprint at Epynt in what I believe was its first outing in anger, poise and noise together. least favorite Audi Qutro, 4 wheel drive and the beginning of the end for the tail out forest stage.
I'd have to disagree with you there about the "tail out" bit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDRkHXMHqFo
Another vote for the Stratos. What makes it great? It won straight out of the gate and didn't stop winning until Fiat retired it. It looks and sounds like an exotic Italian sportscar. It has popup headlights. It has round tail lights and louvres. It has Miura horns on the doors. It was my favourite toy car alongside a BMW M1. It made its opposition look slow, both on the rally stage and in the paddock.
Lucky to have heard all the following in period - works 2 litre 911s in '69 sounded impossibly gorgeous - just revved and revved . Stratos of course but in UK rallying one always felt it was more mouth than trousers..unlike the Datsun 240Zs which sounded very beefy and went like dingbats.Can't say the Healey 3000 did much for me - lots of noise but always sounded short of breath .
Golden era for noise - and everything else in rallying was Gp B of course . The Metro 6R4 is still the second best six cylinder engine I have ever heard (best is the Ferrari 246 F1 car, last front engined car to win a GP ) but by a comfortable margin the Quattro Sport S1 . Nothing has come close- the sheer sense of aural drama this brute created was astonishing, You'd hear it from miles away - huge bangs and short bursts of power. Close up you'd get a chorus of clicks and whistles and then that massive sense of power from that unique warbling bellow. Astonishing car and a favourite memory is being overtaken by Michele Mouton i her Quattro between stages in the Lakes. I did consider getting out to investigate why we'd apparently stopped ....
Golden era for noise - and everything else in rallying was Gp B of course . The Metro 6R4 is still the second best six cylinder engine I have ever heard (best is the Ferrari 246 F1 car, last front engined car to win a GP ) but by a comfortable margin the Quattro Sport S1 . Nothing has come close- the sheer sense of aural drama this brute created was astonishing, You'd hear it from miles away - huge bangs and short bursts of power. Close up you'd get a chorus of clicks and whistles and then that massive sense of power from that unique warbling bellow. Astonishing car and a favourite memory is being overtaken by Michele Mouton i her Quattro between stages in the Lakes. I did consider getting out to investigate why we'd apparently stopped ....
rohrl said:
The DS was a successful rally car, especially in shortened form as shown below and the SM is essentially the same thing but with a more powerful engine. Why wouldn't you take it rallying?
I had never seen that car before I saw it on this thread this morning. I then jumped in the car, drove 45 miles to a village in the middle of Morvan in France for a bike ride. Needed some supplies so popped into a little shop for some food, this poster was in the window:
The DS is a tough car. Rally is about staying alive and that's what a DS does.
Cool pics here:
http://www.6speedonline.com/forums/911/307475-comp...
Cool pics here:
http://www.6speedonline.com/forums/911/307475-comp...
AndrisV said:
That sounds horrific in a way that 16 cylinders has no right to! Still gets a thumbs up from me though. 
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