That version was actually badged as a 512TR, there are some mechanical differences from the Testarossa-badged version too.

Strictly speaking it’s not a Testarossa, it’s a 512M. You do not want to see the back end.

Effectively yeah, due to the different fuel flow rates, which are carefully calibrated to give neither class an outright advantage. For the long Le Mans circuit last year the ICE contributed something like 120-130MJ/lap, so you can see that the 4/8MJ of electrical power is just for additional boost.

You made me look it up. Apparently that’s a 2009 facelift that is known as the 206+, sold alongside the 207 in LHD parts of Europe as a budget model. So I guess we are both kinda right :)

4MJ and 8MJ are subclasses within LMP-1 dictating the amount of electrical energy you can deploy per lap (while peak electrical power usage is actually unlimited). So the Porsche can use more electrical boost for longer than the Audi. However, for most of the lap the cars are running on ICE only, and as it runs in the…

It’s more nuanced than that – ‘4MJ’ and ‘8MJ’ are subclasses within LMP-1 governing the amount of electrical energy you can deploy per lap. So the 8MJ Porsche can run its electric motors harder and for longer each lap than the Audi, which accounts for the acceleration differential.

Yep. And the one I posted is a facelifted 206.

That is a 206.

That makes sense. I think I’d missed the fact that they made a car just called the “V8”. And now they’ve recycled the Vantage name as a separate model, so the “V8 Vantage” of today is semantically quite different to what “V8 Vantage” meant in the 70s.

The finish on that one somehow looks more like CG :) Polyphony did a good job with their flip-paint shader.

It had suffered a lot before the US got hold of it, sprouting ducts and intakes and vents for cooling, the flared wheelarches and the huge wing. Original design was way cleaner.

Guessing they used the same door panel as the 4-door?

Is that from Gran Turismo on the Playstation 3?

The ‘mustache’ bumper overriders.

Weird that those bonnet vents/intakes showed up again on a car from another French manufacturer:

I past 5 in the space of as many miles on the motorway one Sunday. Truly a bizarre sight. Guess they were heading back from some show.

I do not understand Aston names from the 70s/80s. V8s and Volantes and Vantages in seemingly multiple combinations.

Clown shoe!

Il Mostro!

Maybe a Stratos Zero? There were a few similar concept cars around that era.