Because they are generally modified from GT3 Cup cars, since they come as an already finished racecar

I’ve had the very good fortune of hearing this in person on stage many times, and I can. Absolutely confirm, you hear it from miles away. I was standing on the other side of a bush which the rally skirted around the edge of, I heard it enter the valley some 3+km of stage away. You can hear it echo through the trees man…

“All competitors are required to raise their hoods and allow other competitors to inspect their cars AFTER the competition has concluded during impound.”, “That is the standard across all of automobile racing.” 

I’ve always thought of the mk4 as Toyotas GT car. A car that you’d cruise in for hundreds of miles at a time. And at the time, Toyota was making a race-bred sports car: the GT-Four. the ST205 stopped as hard (or harder, it had the full MK4 TT brake setup standard in a similar weight car) as the Supra, handled great,…

Still DOHC, but with 3 valves on the intake side and 2 on the exhaust. See the 4AGE 20v head for a simple implementation.

Don’t drive in such a way that will get you killed. The guy i bought my Cappuccino from told me that you sometimes had to drive it like a motorbike; assume nobody can see you and they all want to run you over.

And don’t forget his Japanese D1 car, the HUMBUL. An RX7 chassis with a similar twin turbo quad rotor to the MX5, but with nitrous. All the cars except HUMBUL were built in NZ too, which is why RADBUL is one of the few US Formula Drift cars that is right hand drive (only?). Actually a NZ new NC MX5 chassis that one.…

The only proper high spec (4WD, aero, go fast) Suzuki rally car that I know of competing on an international calendar is from New Zealand, driven by Emma Gilmour. It competes in the national Rally Championship Class 1, makes 415bhp from a 1.6 and runs effectively a full WRC spec drivetrain, albeit adapted for cost…

4.2 V8, Air suspension, sunroof etc.

I have an allroad for a week, and I agree with you. The best part is that its someone elses allroad, so I dont have to deal with the stuffed CV joint and the slow leak in one airbag. Still want to go offroading in it.

2 door convert a Commodore wagon with a Camaro front end?

Racing *sequential* boxes have a clutch pedal, like a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup. GT3 Cup cars don’t have a PDK in them, they have a sequential box with a lever. With a sequential there is still flat shifting but it does it by cutting ignition while the next gear is selected. The new Cup cars have paddle shift but it is…

In NZ and I think Australia, its not considered strange. It’s a common sport, and even televised.

Yep, pretty standard behaviour. You guys should see the rubber in our school parking lot...

Climb out the window. If you are skinny enough you can get out of some really wide cars in tight spots, like 911’s in transporters.

How hard would it be to build a pit lane “chute” with a chicane, I.e every non oval racing circuit with an FIA cert? Would solve what seems to be a major safety issue.

Why not 4 door Celica based Touring Car?

Endurance racing lights are best racing lights (unless on a rally car). Looked awesome seeing this screaming down the hill flashing at slower cars. Would be scary asf being in front of this thing.

The Formula 5000 series in NZ has had a corner of Hampton Downs Raceway repaved in a similar sense to that. Stopped the race midway through, except in this instance the race never got restarted.

Are you implying New Zealanders are unreasonable? Wait, hang on....