RE: Pic Of The Week: Peugeot T16 Evo II
Discussion
Smike said:
interloper said:
Twincam16 said:
such as Lancia filling the roll cage of the S4 with nitrous oxide to feed an engine that was already turbocharged and supercharged
Gahhhhh! Why do these hackneyed old chestnuts keep appearing in Rallying threads? It wasn't true at the time and it sure ain't true now! Nitrous oxide just doesn't make sense in a rallying environment. Lono9885 said:
nickfrog said:
Aren't todays (or at least last year's) WRC cars quicker though ? I think it's still an awesome spectacle of skills and danger, but maybe I've lost my rose tinted glasses ?
Erm in a word, no. Group. B cars were savagely powerful in comparison to today's efforts. The Delta s4 and quattro were around 2.4 secs to 60 and 2 - 2.5 times the power.
I don't think the WRC will ever get back to the 'Glory Days' because the media dont take much intrest anymore after Richard Burns died , and Colin McRae died . So you have to resort to Dave if you want to watch it.
Also there isn't enough competition nowaadays as its all Citroen and Ford. Even a couple of years back there were Scooby's , Evos , Skoda (with the Octavia), Citroen , Peugeot and Ford battling it out for the WRC crown. You also knew most the drivers... Petter Solberg , Colin McRae , Richard Burns , Seb Loeb + a truck load of Sweeds and Finns , wheras now the only ones i know are Chris Meeke , Ken Block , Seb Loeb.
The best rally car IMO was this:
Lancia Stratos
On another note , the best Motorsport years were:
BTCC - 90's
F1 - 90's/00's
Rally 90's
Also there isn't enough competition nowaadays as its all Citroen and Ford. Even a couple of years back there were Scooby's , Evos , Skoda (with the Octavia), Citroen , Peugeot and Ford battling it out for the WRC crown. You also knew most the drivers... Petter Solberg , Colin McRae , Richard Burns , Seb Loeb + a truck load of Sweeds and Finns , wheras now the only ones i know are Chris Meeke , Ken Block , Seb Loeb.
The best rally car IMO was this:
Lancia Stratos
On another note , the best Motorsport years were:
BTCC - 90's
F1 - 90's/00's
Rally 90's
Lets Torque said:
You also knew most the drivers... Petter Solberg , Colin McRae , Richard Burns , Seb Loeb + a truck load of Sweeds and Finns , wheras now the only ones i know are Chris Meeke , Ken Block , Seb Loeb.
Petter Solberg's still in there, you've also got Ken Block & Kimi Raikonnen if you're looking for some other well known names Anyway, gereat looking pic that's made it's way to my desktop wallpaper
davidanderson_pt said:
Lets Torque said:
You also knew most the drivers... Petter Solberg , Colin McRae , Richard Burns , Seb Loeb + a truck load of Sweeds and Finns , wheras now the only ones i know are Chris Meeke , Ken Block , Seb Loeb.
Petter Solberg's still in there, you've also got Ken Block & Kimi Raikonnen if you're looking for some other well known names Anyway, gereat looking pic that's made it's way to my desktop wallpaper
Tis a nice picture of the Stratos though.
Ooh, love this! The Renault 5 Turbo II was pretty cool, too. Something about the idea of a mid engine hatch... Hatchbacks are practical machines. Put a stonking turbo engine in the back, however, and any pretense of practicality is lost. They're just mad, that's why I love 'em!
Saw one of these in the "online car dealership" in GT5, but it's nearly Cr.3,000,000, and I already committed to buying the Panoz Esperante GTLM. I think in GT4 it was like Cr.400,000. That's some inflation in GranTurismoland!
Saw one of these in the "online car dealership" in GT5, but it's nearly Cr.3,000,000, and I already committed to buying the Panoz Esperante GTLM. I think in GT4 it was like Cr.400,000. That's some inflation in GranTurismoland!
Flood said:
Is it in the readers cars section? If not, why not?!
sledge68 said:
not thought about putting it in there, the car is in france at the moment.
i will look into doing that
Could you also look at bringing it back to the UK and letting me have a sit in it? I've wanted one as long as I can remember, I've not even seen a road-going version in the flesh...i will look into doing that
Jerry Can said:
fairly certain that the roll cage rumour was something to do with the Le Mans Porsche 917's i think, and the fire extinguishers were changed at every service with the group A delta not the group b.
You're right about the 917s. That's a whole other story...Group B Deltas had the special fire extinguishers too. An old colleague of mine, who definitely knew about such things on account of around 20 years of top line rally mechanic experience, told me many years ago.
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