Citroën BX 4TC 1986

[L8 Apex]

The BX 4TC was Citroen's entry into the Group B rally car arena. It featured a Simca-derived turbocharged 2.1L engine, all-wheel-drive and, of course, Citroen's famous hydropneumatic suspension. Unfortunately, the car was overweight, oversized and underpowered compared to its competitors, and the company withdrew after just three WRC rallies, having never come close to winning one. Legend has it Citroen was so ashamed of the car that it recalled all 200 of the road versions it made (the minimum number for Group B homologation) and crushed most of them, so Citroen probably won't have much interest in granting PD a license (even though it was in a WRC game a few years ago as DLC).

 

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Citroën entered Group B rallying with the BX in 1986. The specially designed rally BX was called the BX 4TC and bore little resemblance to the standard BX. It had a very long nose because the engine (a turbocharger fitted version ofChrysler Europe's Simca Type 180engine) was mounted longitudinally unlike in the regular BX. The engine was downsleeved to 2,141.5 cc (from 2,155 cc) to stay under the three-litre limit after FIA's multiplication factor of 1.4 was applied. The rally version of the BX also featured the unique hydropneumatic suspension, and the five-speed manual gearbox fromCitroën SM.[7] Because of the Group B regulations, 200 street versions of the 4TC also had to be built, with a 200 PS (147 kW) at 5,250 rpm version of the N9TE engine.[7]

The 4TC was not successful in World Rally Championship competition, its best result being a sixth place in the 1986 Swedish Rally. The 4TC only participated in three rallies before the Group B class was banned in late 1986, following the death of Henri Toivonen in his Lancia Delta S4 at the Tour de Corse Rally. Already discouraged by the car's poor performance in motorsport and the demise of Group B, Citroën was only able to sell 62 road-going 4TCs; build quality and reliability problems led Citroën to buy back many of these 4TCs for salvage and destruction.[8]With only a fraction of the original 200 examples remaining, the 4TC is now highly sought-after.[9]

 

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