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Well, yeah.
IIRC, it's lighter than the Caterham, isn't it? Or at least close.
IIRC, it's lighter than the Caterham, isn't it? Or at least close.
Hmm... Might run an 85 RX-7 for the late-classics.
No, Grey is doing an Audi Quattro.
Yeah.
I should have probably paid close attention to the organization of the Cup.
First I'd have to stress that anything from 1980 or later is too new to be in a classics cup so allowing even '80 or '81 isn't really fitting. Further, cars like the RS200 symbolize the modern era of cars (IMO) as much as or more than the R32 and Z32.
Oh well, no biggie.
Like I said, this topic is probably why I should have been more involved when this thing was getting off the ground.
But having a seperate 80's-focused division in a "modern classics" sense doesn't seem to be too much of a problem - most reputable classics magazines are now regarding anything 1991 and older as a potential classic.
And you're right, there are certainly cars in GT4 from the eighties that are just as technically sophisticated as the Zed and the R32, but the primary difference there is that they can't have upwards of 700 horsepower crammed under the hood. As much as we stress that this competition isn't about power but overall feel, a 300ZX that has the potential of such overwhelming power is going to have a significantly perceptable edge over an RS200.