I have loved these cars for ages, and with the last rally aus poking its head out, i did a bit of Youtube trawling and came up with a few choice vids
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYhiJeRPgdw
awesome vid with some great closeups with the engine bay up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpAs8Fb_WZY
awesome sounds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkLH56Jx6qI
this one is a bit of a tribute to Henri Toivenens crash, which was the last nail in the coffin for GroupB. the first half is ass boring but the second half shows crash footage that I had never seen before
unfamiliar with the Group B cars? look here
http://www.autozine.org/strange_car/..._60.htm#205T16
Group B homologation required something like 200 cars be built, (as opposed to 5000 for Group A) a tiny number, and most of the excess cars were sold to the public at a stupid loss, just to ensure the manufacturer could compete. most were half finished when they left the factory, simply to sell them
my personal fav has to be the Audi Quattro S1, ridiculous wings and upwards of 600hp. based on an actual street car, unlike most of the other groupb cars which were specially made for the rally.
the quattro sport road car & early rally model
was lucky enough to find a genuine Lancia Stratos HF sitting in the service carpark at rally aus this year, nearly came on the damn thing
another fav car was the pug 205, based on a lowly fwd 1.4L model, this had the engine mid mounted and kicked serious ass, huge ass wide body and heaps of grunt
check out the size of the flares
its my dream one day to find one of these homologation models, preferably one of the Audi QuattroSports
But i am pretty confident i would settle for any of them =)
for those of you that remember my last car, my little 323, i kind of wish i had held onto it, it was one of 30 Australian delivered Mazda 323 GTXs, homologation model for the 323 that one the very first rally Australian in 1988 and a fair few European victories
so anyway, there is jesters groupb & rally thread. discuss.