I’m actively looking for a 505 GTi, I’ve never driven one, and I haven’t seen one in about 10 years (I live in the UK and most of ours now live in Africa). They look great and apparently they’re pretty good to drive too. Want.

My dad didn’t even have one of the XR Fords, just a Sierra Ghia, and that got nicked and stripped too. He had a few other normal fords nicked before that too, he only owned fords until the Sierra, and it took him 20 years before his next one when he bought a Fiesta last year.

Every single XR3i that I know of was stolen from the owner in the UK. My brother had an RS1600 cab at one point and it was destroyed by arson. Fun times.

The legendary Ford Escort RS Cosworth? Four wheel drive turbo 2.0 litre, was the new Focus RS before it even existed, way back in the early 90s. Was a homologation special for the WRC, has a few wins too.

I know what you mean, I adore Porsches, but I just see them as unrealistic these days, and it’s kinda wearing off, sad really. The only thing I really lust after now are things that aren’t stupid money yet, aka an E21 3 series or an R32 Skyline. I maybe might have both in a couple of years, it’s not impossible.

I also love it. One rescued my Iveco Daily delivery van from the middle of Wales on New Years eve when the ECU on the gearbox and engine went all Italian when I went down a slightly flooded road. Then one of these lovely things took me and the van the 70 miles back home. Good truck.

Yes. It is where the name comes from. I’m just confused at an article explaining the meaning of two regular English words, idk.

But you take Grand Tourers on a Grand Tour... I don’t see what’s so hard about this.

That is exactly what it’s suppose to mean. Idk why they’re mentioning some 1800s european shit (I am european). It’s because of GT cars.

Eddie Jordan’s very much Irish, don’t think he’d enjoy being called British much.

I’ve searched why a couple of times with no results, although I guessed something like that was the case, thanks!

They do that at the French rounds, they still have to go on the road between stages but it seems the French allow them to go plateless on the road.

Also it’s a 16 plate, as in the 16 on the numberplate indicates it was registered after March 1st 2016. So this thing is like a couple of months old at the most. Ouch.

I agree with this so much.

It’s basically just one long car chase, I have no idea what it’s about, but it’s very cool.

Yeah obviously the BBC are wrong and the Sun is right.

No it’s not. (I’m English)

Our vans still lead very hard lives. I actually managed to fry an old Ivecos gearbox ECU by driving through a ford, (river ford, haven’t quite crashed one yet) getting stuck in the middle of Wales was fun when they were trying to find me.

Yep exactly the same. And true about the button, that makes a lot of difference, I still know to put into park though that’s the thing. The company I work for (Asda a British supermarket) all their vans are autos, but to be honest, most companies don’t go for them, although I know all the supermarket delivery vans are…

All calibration, the same mechanical system, same ECU, BMW will just have mapped it differently, aka told it to go into park when people open the door. Saying that, I have the same gearbox in my van that doesn’t go automatically into park, but I’m not an idiot.