It’s always been the case, but I’m finally learning how to embrace it. World Rally Car’s are my favourite cars of all time. Some like Formula 1. Some like touring cars. Some like Group B. The original World Rally Car regulations (circa 1997) are certainly the ultimate for me though. I don’t think there is a better blend of the real world production cars, independent innovation, aesthetic appeal and real world versatility.
Group B is a little too weird and wild for my tastes, and the modern World Rally Car regulations are too restrictive and cookie cutter, discouraging innovation and trickle down to production models. Historic Group A cars really get my blood flowing, and deserve serious props for the homologation specials that came with them, but are just a little too tame without sequential gear boxes and active diffs. World Rally Car regulations added a lot more speed with only a few alterations to regulations.
If I was to uncover Edward Teach’s goodies, you’d almost certainly find me in some Japanese WRC car… maybe slightly softened to accommodate trips to the booze store, or shuttling grandma home from the airport. Until then though… I’ll just play pretend. My car is WRB for a reason.
Thumbsup to this post yo!
pretty much sums it up
wrc real world super cars.
but not really real world, real world for multimillion dollar race teams
but wrx is pretty close for a mortal
Actually, I might like Group A more, and not just because I have the 1996 winning platform, but because of exactly what you said: H pattern Gearboxes, before they went with active diffs, and active everything, and probably, perhaps replicable in the real world. Group N certainly is a lot like streetgoing tuner cars, perhaps less so because of their inherent “mildness” due to competition restrictions.
I’m also in love with Gp A because it extended to Touring car regs. Right when I was starting to have a consciousness of cars pre teen and young adolescence, Touring cars were becoming big where I was living at the time.