I thought this was going to be about the Mosler Consulier ad in the current issue of GRM. Those things are cool and fast, but man they are hideous...
I thought this was going to be about the Mosler Consulier ad in the current issue of GRM. Those things are cool and fast, but man they are hideous...
In reply to pimpm3:
LOL that was the first car I thought of when I saw the thread too!
What an ugly lump. Looks like a car that would have fit right in with the fake "future" cars in Robocop.
I would like the drivetrain out of one for my CSX though. 
In reply to pimpm3:
I really like those. 
In reply to pimpm3:
Haha. Yeah, those things look like cheap kit cars. I know they are quick and all but they look like they are concept cars from the early 70s or something.
Weren't the Robocop cars 1st gen Ford Taurus? Of course in comparison to the fox-body sedans they did look futuristic.
Appleseed wrote: And hopefully , like Group B cars, it'll kill its owners.
There've only been three fatal GpB crashes that I'm aware of (one 037 in '85, one RS200 in a German rally, and the infamous one - oddly enough my other computer is playing Marvdogger's Delta S4 history playlist to satisfy my N.A.D.D.)
The problem was all of the spectators getting maimed and killed, which really wasn't the cars' fault. Way too many stories of spectators standing in the road until the very last minute, or slapping the cars as they go by, sometimes leaving a finger or two in a duct...
People don't seem to complain too much about the Ferrari F40, which was intended to be homologated for Group B.
Really, "Group B" was the category for two-seat cars. The homologation and modification schedules were, shall we say, lenient. Some went all the way with tubeframe mid-engine monstrosities, others just went with unibody structure with factory-like design. The Sport Quattros and S1 E2s weren't that removed from the production cars, and the RX-7 was mostly road race bits, still unibody shell and naturally aspirated RWD. The Celica was kinda in between, from seeing the restorations at mat.fi it looks like they tried to make a tubeframe by cutting most of the unibody away 
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