greatest rally car

[TheAdvocate]

It works quite nicely. I wasn't far off with my own settings, but tweaking the suspension and Yaw definitely helped. Thanks again

 

[Sycoarkantos]

well i find that the stock subaru rally car 2003 with an oil change works fine for me i have won all of the rallys with it

 

[98cwitr]

I used a STi Rally Car to beat every Rally race on the game...until I won the Escudo

 

[AlfaAlfa]

I tried out about 20 rally cars testing and tuning at grand canyon and the Lancia Delta S4 walked away with the title. I haven't really tried any normal cars. Also everything was stock power (except I upped the '99 Subaru to 400hp - it still wasn't too fast). Here is the list of my times for gc, I didn't drive perfect but they are pretty clean laps, clean enough to not incur 5 second penalties if they were in races. Also I try to minimize the banging of the rear end against barriers, walls etc.

Some of the cars only got a run one way, some got both forward and reverse times. The Lancer Super Rally Car got a little poor showing because it was one of the first to go and I got better later - but this might give you an idea how some different rally cars performed under similar circumastances.

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1: Lancia Delta S4 Rally Car '85 - 2'28.342
2: Subaru Impreza Rally Car '03 - 2'28.944
3: Ford Focus Rally Car '99 - 2'29.056
4: Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 Rally Car '99 - 2'30.263
5: Subaru Impreza Rally Car '99 - 2'31.444
6: Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution Super Rally Car '03 - 2'31.458
7: Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IV Rally Car '97 - 2'34.504


Reverse

1: Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution Super Rally Car '03 - 2'29.943
2: Subaru Impreza Rally Car '03 - 2'30.564
3: Subaru Impreza Rally Car '01 - 2'30.637
4: Ford Escort Rally Car '98 - 2'31.179
5: Peugeot 206 Rally Car '99 - 2'31.554
6: Subaru Impreza Rally Car '99 - 2'33.280
7: Mitsubishi CZ-3 Tarmac Rally Car '99 - 2'33.647
8: Lancia Delta HF Integrale Rally Car '92 - 2'35.678
9: Toyota Celica Rally Car (ST185) '95 - 2'38.272

Alot of the cars I tested got bumped off 'cause I would forget to clear the board and have 4 Ford Focus times push off my Celica and Stratos etc. I wish the rankings list was infinitely long. I will probably have to resort to writing times down so I won't lose track of cars that don't make the top 7 or 8

Some cars I couldn't get to compete despite looking promising at first glance:

Mitsubishi Straion - no better than about a 2'38.xxx
RS200 Rally Car '85 - around 2'35 or so
Toyota Celica Rally Car (ST205) was the same as (ST185) roughly but got bumped off.

 

[oops_1234]

I beat a lot of dirt tracks with the Ford RS200 Rally car. And a few of the most diffiicult rally's with the Pajero EVO Rally Raid Car. That Pajero is the prize car from the Hard Cathederal MT. Trail II. Win the Trail I or Trail II Hard using the RS200 and you get the 2 best rally car in GT4, the Suzuki Escudi Dirt Tral car and the Pajero Evo. With all three of these cars you can win all the dirt rallys.

 

[jedi09]

i used the subaru sti rally car which not too many people mentioned. I turned the asm and tcs off. does the tcs help?

 

[rirnef]

i did most of them with the Toyota Rally Raid car you get near the start.

im only usin it until i get the Escudo really, but it keeps pace with the F1 car in the hardest Tsukuba wet race, so it must be good.

 

[Leonidae]

Peugeot 205 T16.. the original rallycar, not the Evo-version. it's perfectly balanced for both tarmac and gravel, has enough power to humiliate current rally cars.

edit: AlfaAlfa, there's no 205 rallycar'99, since GrB was banned '86..

 

[Austin343]

im only usin it until i get the Escudo really, but it keeps pace with the F1 car in the hardest Tsukuba wet race, so it must be good.

No it doesn't. There is no F1 car in the AI entrants for that race. They are all LMPs and Group Cs. And the only way it could possibly keep up is with a turbo upgrade and/or supersoft tires, as far as I know.

 

[ramchargerQC]

Peugeot 205 T16.. the original rallycar, not the Evo-version. it's perfectly balanced for both tarmac and gravel, has enough power to humiliate current rally cars.

edit: AlfaAlfa, there's no 205 rallycar'99, since GrB was banned '86..

there is 3 peugeot 205 t16, do you talk of the one you win in the 206 cup or the grey one you buy used?

 

[Leonidae]

Yes, I'm talking of the one you can win from the 206 cup.

 

[Skygrasper550]

Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IV Rally Car for me.., great on tarmac, excellent on snow.., 👍

 

[mafia_boy]

edit: AlfaAlfa, there's no 205 rallycar'99, since GrB was banned '86..

Bit late with the reply Leo considering that guy made the post in 2005.

 

[Leonidae]

better late than never.

 

[steve_rolfeca]

I enjoyed reviewing this thread. I've been having trouble cracking the dirt and especially the snow events.

I won a couple of snow events last night using the Dodge RAM (thanks for the tip, guys!). As long as I could get ahead (easy to do with full mods), then the big truck's wildly swinging rear end made it hard for the AI cars to re-pass.

I'm still trying to figure out the proper offroad setups and driving style, though. The Grand Canyon is a particular sticking point for me. I am currently getting my best results with the '03 Evo rally car from the Mitsubishi new car showroom, but I'm still not fast enough.

 

[amartya]

I used a Subaru imprezza which i tuned myself, and i think the whole price came out to be something in the 200,000 range, but i did win all the races without much competition. You can pm me if u want, i might have the tune lying around on a piece of paper somewhere.

 

[GT Racer08]

The Best rally car in my opinion is the "Peugeot 205 evo 16" it is won by winning the George V paris Rally on Normal or Hard I can't remember which one it is

 

[PF]

Are you perchance talking about the Ren 5? Pug T16 is only available from the used car lots and only twice (IIRC) in the 100-week cycle.

 

[Rotary Junkie]

Evo 16 205 is a prize car. Looks exactly like he posted.

 

[PF]

Oh, of course. Sorry, stupid comment time.

 

[Fuzzy Peach]

I think the Lancer Evo IV rally, the Mitsubishi Starion rally or the Mitsubishi Pajero Evolution rally for dirt and snow events.

 

[84SSccc]

I like the Ford RS200 and Nissan 240RS for dirt and snow use and the Mitsubishi Starion for Tarmac.

 

[Kynigh]

I use the Toyota RSC Rally Car (at hard difficulty) with a simple HP increase changing the oil, and at medium I use the Mitsubishi CZ-3 Tarmac Rally Car with a powerful turbo installed, it handles well!

 

[Fuzzy Peach]

My favorites are the Lancer Evo. 4 Rally Car, the Toyota RSC Rally Raid and the Ford RS200 Rally. Whatever you do, stray away from 2wd rally cars. Especially rwd cars.

 

[Seismica]

i just use the subaru sti spec c

Thats for the tip with the spec C. I used to have trouble with the rally races (not that much touble, i could always manage to win them).

Just got stuck on the normal difficulty races in my celica GT-four rally car (I started again to pass the time until GT5). No matter how hard i tried, i could only just keep up and it was near impossible to pass. I had a look at the forums for setups, and came across this thread, so i took your advice and bought a spec c, added dirt tyres and went straight into the race. I noticed the difference immediately, off the line i overtook the other car. The only one that posed a threat was tahiti reverse where i faced another spec c.

Then i jumped straight into hard, yosemite rally route I, i came up against the Super evo rally car and thought to myself "This isn't going to go so well...". But i ended up beating it by a gap of ~15 seconds

I recommend to anyone having trouble with the rally races, buy an impreza spec c road car, add dirt tyres and you will find the races a whole lot easier. It costs what 60k for the car and tyres? So i just saved over a million credits because its as good as the super rally car

EDIT:

Just to add, this car was worth ~130 A-spec points.

And if you come up against Lancia S4, Peugeot 205, Renault 5 Maxi, or Ford RS200 rally cars, be prepared for a near impossible 200 point race, because all of those have 400bhp+. So add an original turbo (from the custom tune shops) to make it even.