Unconventional Rally Cars
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but wasn't rally part of the reason the 959 was made?
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Yes, and it got beat by this.
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This
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>broke records
>unconventional
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This, and the Lancia Stratos.
Doubt we'll ever see mid engine rally cars in the WRC again
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this entire thread is great
hon
holy FUCK
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Paris-Dakar really is a treasure trove for unlikely rally cars.
You know that the party is on when your world class rally car gets overtaken by an eleven thousand kilogram brick at top speed.
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But wait, there are more numbers. Two 11.6 liter diesels with 1200 hp and 4700 Nm torque.
Each. Combined 2400 hp and 9400 Nm. 240 kph top speed.
One of the two DAFs at the Dakar 1988 somersaulted at 160 kph and killed the co-driver. The brand withdrew from the race and all following years.
yes
>people posting Porsche's in an unconventional rally car thread.
Porsche has always been in rallying, hardly unconventional given that there's an entire FIA championship for them.
Australia has a lot of interesting stuff
HON HON
Surprise midship!
Peugeot homologated and entered a 504 Pickup into group B rallying
the absolute madmen.
did it win?!
the new rav4 did quite well at a rally
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>turns in American
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>stock Beetle running the same thing $200+ thousand dollar trucks are.
Twin 1750hp triple turbo engines.
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now that is the business