What's the meaning of "LM"?
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LeMans.
The 24 hours of LeMans is one of, if not the most famous endurance race in the gt motorsports world.
Learn about it if you wish... basically, all the lm cars are super fast versions of the original cars.
All are racers and all are fun.
http://www.lemans.org/2003/24auto/index_gb.shtml
Thats the official lemans site... have fun.
The 24 hours of LeMans is one of, if not the most famous endurance race in the gt motorsports world.
Learn about it if you wish... basically, all the lm cars are super fast versions of the original cars.
All are racers and all are fun.
http://www.lemans.org/2003/24auto/index_gb.shtml
Thats the official lemans site... have fun.
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LeMans.
The 24 hours of LeMans is one of, if not the most famous endurance race in the gt motorsports world.
Learn about it if you wish... basically, all the lm cars are super fast versions of the original cars.
All are racers and all are fun.
http://www.lemans.org/2003/24auto/index_gb.shtml
Thats the official lemans site... have fun.
Thanks!
And the R390 GT1 LM is really a devil of speed...
This has been covered in a couple of other threads - unfortunately, LM is shorter than three letters so you can't search for it!
I'm firmly of the belief that Polyphony have drawn inspiration from the NSX and GT-R that ran at Le Mans in the late '90s (I've posted photos here somewhere) and come up with this imaginary class with other cars like the RX-7, Impreza, RS200 and so on.
The Toyota GT1 and R390 are of course genuine cars that ran at, and nearly won, the French 24 hour classic.
I'm firmly of the belief that Polyphony have drawn inspiration from the NSX and GT-R that ran at Le Mans in the late '90s (I've posted photos here somewhere) and come up with this imaginary class with other cars like the RX-7, Impreza, RS200 and so on.
The Toyota GT1 and R390 are of course genuine cars that ran at, and nearly won, the French 24 hour classic.
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The GT-One is pretty much exclusively designed for the LeMans.
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The race car IS the GT-One LM. It was designed specifically for that venue, and then a limited number of road cars were made to homologate it for rules purposes. Same with the R-390.
The other so-called LM cars are fantasy cars, Polyphony Digital's interpretation of what some real road cars could be built into to compete at Le Mans (though not in the same classes as the GT-One and R390).
The other so-called LM cars are fantasy cars, Polyphony Digital's interpretation of what some real road cars could be built into to compete at Le Mans (though not in the same classes as the GT-One and R390).
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Damn, you know, for a bunch of racing fans there sure was a lot of confusion on this.
LM does stand for lemans.
The gt-one came in second at lemans in '99. But it was actually a borderline cheat, as the gas tank was built into the trunk and not another seperate area of the car.
This was not illegal, but certainly did use underhanded tactics to side step some of the existing rules.
But still, the gt-one is bad ass and did well. 👍 toyota.
The 787b is the only japanese racer to win the overall at lemans. (think it was in the late 80's)
The McLaren F1 gtr was a Lm race car. It actually won the race in the first year it was being produced. Very nice for them.
Anyway, listen fellas.... LM is for lemans.
The race cars aren't required to have a name with "LM" in there, but at times it is done... at others it is not.
I think ppd only put LM on the end of car names because they needed to name the Lemans style racers that they came up with on their own.
Lemans racecars are some of the most powerful and fastest racers in the world... what better way to indicate an imaginary car is fast than to put a big LM on the end of the name... it instantly implies to most of us that it is a Lemans racer.
LM does stand for lemans.
The gt-one came in second at lemans in '99. But it was actually a borderline cheat, as the gas tank was built into the trunk and not another seperate area of the car.
This was not illegal, but certainly did use underhanded tactics to side step some of the existing rules.
But still, the gt-one is bad ass and did well. 👍 toyota.
The 787b is the only japanese racer to win the overall at lemans. (think it was in the late 80's)
The McLaren F1 gtr was a Lm race car. It actually won the race in the first year it was being produced. Very nice for them.
Anyway, listen fellas.... LM is for lemans.
The race cars aren't required to have a name with "LM" in there, but at times it is done... at others it is not.
I think ppd only put LM on the end of car names because they needed to name the Lemans style racers that they came up with on their own.
Lemans racecars are some of the most powerful and fastest racers in the world... what better way to indicate an imaginary car is fast than to put a big LM on the end of the name... it instantly implies to most of us that it is a Lemans racer.
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The TVR CerberaSpeed 12 is the most powerful road car in GT3, unlike the TS020 there were more than 1 road versions built, but only one of the road Speed 12's was sold. TVR refused to sell the other 4 instead they are in ms, or the TVR factory.
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Those are the 2 different years of gt-one race cars.
One is from 98 I think, and one is from 99.
Something like that, but yeah, that reminds me of the 97 nissan r390 gt1 with the red and black paint job... damn that was awesome. Wish it was still around. :drools:
One is from 98 I think, and one is from 99.
Something like that, but yeah, that reminds me of the 97 nissan r390 gt1 with the red and black paint job... damn that was awesome. Wish it was still around. :drools:
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...and your R33 from Le Mans 1996...
Link didn't work - photo's here >http://racingsportscars.t35.com/photo/1996/Le_Mans-1996-06-16-022.jpg
Link didn't work - photo's here >http://racingsportscars.t35.com/photo/1996/Le_Mans-1996-06-16-022.jpg
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I also see everyone's drift god, Keiichi Tsuchiya on the flanks of the NSX LM. Akira Iida is the other name.
Looking it up, the NISMO Skyline LM finished 10th overall. A Toyota Supra "Bi-Turbo" finished 14th...mst be the only time they all competed at LeMans.
The McLaren F1 beat them all. Maybe that's anothe reason why the F1 hasn't shown up to the GT series...a little too much pride involved?
Looking it up, the NISMO Skyline LM finished 10th overall. A Toyota Supra "Bi-Turbo" finished 14th...mst be the only time they all competed at LeMans.
The McLaren F1 beat them all. Maybe that's anothe reason why the F1 hasn't shown up to the GT series...a little too much pride involved?
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