£76,500 Metro For Sale!!!

[emtee]

6r4's are da bomb... I'd love to just drive/shotgun one... they have gotta be the best car EVER for rally, they sound like 1000 banshees wailing the loss of the great god Odin... but are based on yer grannies shopping cart... sadly the closest I have ever got to owning one is the 2 I have in the loft...! OE 80's scalextric, figure eight layout c/w 1 blue 'n 1 red 6r4 that is...!!!

[Matt_N]

No thread about rally cars is complete without a Stratos and 037





And this is car porn imo


Few pics from goodwood









Matt

[big air]

Bring back Group B rallies i say!!! That will sort the men out from the poncy playstation generation boys and all there gadgets

[mole2k]

A few more

[JohnM]

Originally Posted by pat*1

Im wrong? what the beetle does deserve to be included in a thread about GroupB classics....

The Beatle doesn't deserve to be included in any thread about great cars, just ones about garbage

[pat*1]

Originally Posted by JohnM

The Beatle doesn't deserve to be included in any thread about great cars, just ones about garbage

[emtee]

Originally Posted by big air

Bring back Group B rallies i say!!! That will sort the men out from the poncy playstation generation boys and all their gadgets

[Chequered Flag Racing]

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Think I'd have more fun driving it home

[wezzer]

Originally Posted by JohnM

The Beatle doesn't deserve to be included in any thread about great cars, just ones about garbage

haha bit harsh me thinks, bugs aint garbage, no more than a fecking metro anyhow !!! and rally car aint just group b , surely Baja is rally, desert style, and aint this thread about a metro for sale any how

[Neil Skull]

Originally Posted by gaza121

Could anyone lend me £76,000 for a low mileage MG Metro???

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MG-METRO-6R4-G...item35a66e678d

This to me is better than any Aston, Lotus or exotic supercar!

One owner, Williams F1!!!

Thats an amazing car but you are paying for the lineage and milage.

I remember when they was banned in rallying my local garage had one for about £35k in full rally colours it was there for a long time. Then a while later an RS200 now that was a proper car not just a mini with a huge V8 engine mounted in the boot.

[isobarik]

Before they pulled the plug on the Group B rally cars Lancia Made the Lancia S4 R not super exact about the name.
The Lancia R
Had carbon rims and drive shafts,drivetrain ,chassi, body and carbon breaks. Rims where made in carbon with an alu center.
If my memory is correct the car had 80% made of carbon.
it was super light 800 kgs or so and had like 780 hp twin turbo charged.
Dont remember who test drove it but he said that it would be possible to win the F1 championship if had arrived earlier.

Dont know if it still exists but it stood in an corner at abarth/lancia factory.

mvh Isobarik

[Neil Skull]

Love those pictures,

Thanks Matt and Mole.

[Si Coe]

Originally Posted by isobarik

Before they pulled the plug on the Group B rally cars Lancia Made the Lancia S4 R not super exact about the name.
The Lancia R
Had carbon rims and drive shafts,drivetrain ,chassi, body and carbon breaks. Rims where made in carbon with an alu center.
If my memory is correct the car had 80% made of carbon.
it was super light 800 kgs or so and had like 780 hp twin turbo charged.
Dont remember who test drove it but he said that it would be possible to win the F1 championship if had arrived earlier.

Dont know if it still exists but it stood in an corner at abarth/lancia factory.

mvh Isobarik

Not twin turbo, supercharged and turbocharged. Supercharger for lower revs, turbo once it had spooled up.
Rumor has it Lancia themselves were concerned about the cars safety as on tight forest stages alternating between light and shade it could cover ground faster than the drivers eyes could focus on the next corner!

[traffman]

Ah but the Metro is exotic !

You surely remember what they did put that little v6 engine into, dont you?




But my all time fave hot hatch has to be ...........

[Hog]

Originally Posted by Neil Skull

not just a mini with a huge V8 engine mounted in the boot.

Ahem - V6 - hence the "6"R4. Did come in various guises though - 2.8, 3.0, 3.6 and 3.8 litres. Then there were the likes of Will Gollop's 2.3 BiTurbo. Arne Rasmushaugen had a BiTurbo as well.

If you want fully Group B spectactular photos and info, go looking at some of the Rallycross websites. There's a plethora of stuff to wander through.

Think the 2 most insane Rallycross cars (not Group B) I've seen were Arild Martinsen's 4WD BMW M3 at Brands - which punched out 1000BHP and left black streaks from the start line to the first corner, and a Chevy Monza with a 3 speed semi auto drag race gearbox converted for a chap who'd been paralyzed in a rally crash. Epic machinery

[JohnM]

Originally Posted by traffman

Ah but the Metro is exotic !

You surely remember what they did put that little v6 engine into, dont you?




But my all time fave hot hatch has to be ...........

Always wanted a Lotus Sunbeam, my first car was a 1.6s Sunbeam, great little car, although they forgot how to to teach it to drive straight, always looking out of the side windows in it

[Nick Goodall]

It was the Lancia S4 that they ran a few laps round Estoril F1 Circuit, compared to the F1 laps they said it would have qualified 6th on the Grid, that is SCARY Fast! Straight line speed wouldn't have been as good but the mid corner and exit speed due to 4wd and crazy amounts of Torque would have literally pulled it round so fast.

[wezzer]

i would love to see a vid of that

[Si Coe]

Originally Posted by Nick Goodall

It was the Lancia S4 that they ran a few laps round Estoril F1 Circuit, compared to the F1 laps they said it would have qualified 6th on the Grid, that is SCARY Fast! Straight line speed wouldn't have been as good but the mid corner and exit speed due to 4wd and crazy amounts of Torque would have literally pulled it round so fast.

Its even more scary than that because in those days F1 cars were also turbocharged and developed close to 1500bhp in qualifing trim!

[Neil Skull]

Originally Posted by Hog

Ahem - V6 - hence the "6"R4. Did come in various guises though - 2.8, 3.0, 3.6 and 3.8 litres. Then there were the likes of Will Gollop's 2.3 BiTurbo. Arne Rasmushaugen had a BiTurbo as well.

If you want fully Group B spectactular photos and info, go looking at some of the Rallycross websites. There's a plethora of stuff to wander through.

Think the 2 most insane Rallycross cars (not Group B) I've seen were Arild Martinsen's 4WD BMW M3 at Brands - which punched out 1000BHP and left black streaks from the start line to the first corner, and a Chevy Monza with a 3 speed semi auto drag race gearbox converted for a chap who'd been paralyzed in a rally crash. Epic machinery

Ah yes it was a V6 but i rememberd they used the Rover V8 block!!