You learn something new... - Cars you didn't know existed, until now!

[Danny]

May be quite well know elsewhere, but I had no idea DAF has a history of making cars as well as trucks.

Netherlands, you are full of surprises.

 

[AlvaroF]

May be quite well know elsewhere, but I had no idea DAF has a history of making cars as well as trucks.

Netherlands, you are full of surprises.

I didn't know about that until I saw a 66. Awsome little spot

 

[Sage Ages]

 

[Tornado]

Including a tach!?


: O

 

[Slash]

Most of them didn't have them back then

I know most people with the 80s trucks like I have don't have them, it was part of an option called the "sports instrumentation package"

 

[Rage Racer]

'78 Corvette America Concept

 

[Sage Ages]

Dat name.

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

Pagani Zonda C12-S Monza

 

[tankuroded]

What I recently knew, was that Timor made a station wagon variant of the re-badged Sephia. For around eighteen years, I lived in my home country and I had never even seen one of them. Apparently, they turned out to be pretty rare.

The station wagon project was codenamed SW516i.

The wagon version makes the back of the car looking like a GC Impreza.

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

Redbull Ford F-150 race truck, I didn't even know the F-150 did any other form of motorsport than Nascar or perhaps baja.

Mercedes-Benz SLK32 AMG, I only found out about the 1st gen AMG SLK a couple days ago. I just assumed until now that AMG didn't tune any SLKs until the late 2000s.

 

[Ranman20]

BMW GTP. I never knew BMW entered GTP racing.

It even used a modified F1 engine, the 1.5L BMW M12/14, producing a whopping 800hp and 9,000 rpm.

More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_GTP

 

[Sage Ages]

The F150 is a crappy photoshop.

 

[xMARKITOx]

Redbull Ford F-150 race truck, I didn't even know the F-150 did any other form of motorsport than Nascar or perhaps baja.

Is there anymore pictures of it? This picture doesn't sit well with me, I get a "Photoshop" vibe from it.

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

Is there anymore pictures of it? This picture doesn't sit well with me, I get a "Photoshop" vibe from it.

Nope, I think it's actually a photoshop now that I look at it.

 

[GT Pro]

Ameritech McLaren F1

The American model of the McLaren F1, the Ameritech McLaren F1 is a modified standard McLaren F1 to meet the U.S. regulations; to comply with said regulations the car had to meet stricter emission requirements which increased the weight and also reduced the power somewhat. Due to a lack of airbags for the passengers, the Ameritech edition only has the single driver seat in the middle

To get it in to the US...

Once in, hideous additions came off...

 

[GT Pro]

The F150 is a crappy photoshop.

It's a photoshop, but it's not a 'crappy' one, given it was possibly never intended to be passed off as real (and yet it has managed, I'm sure, to fool several people).

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

Yeah, haven't I ever stressed that I hate my country's stupid safety regulations? Because I really do!
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Anyway, one more car I learned about...

Dick Johnson's Group A Ford Mustang Touring Car
http://www.motorsportretro.com/2010/02/dick-johnsons-ford-mustang/

 

[Slash]

Chevrolet Corvette CERV III

Mid-engined, four wheel drive, 2 automatic transmissions and could reportedly do 0-60 in 2.5 seconds and reach a top speed of over 200mph. It almost went to the 24hr of Lemans, and could have been a GT40 killer. More pics at Carlisle this August, the car was spared from the crusher and is still around.

http://www.motorauthority.com/news/...o-be-shown-at-corvettes-at-carlisle?fbfanpage

 

[Sage Ages]

Mellburg Future

 

[RACECAR]

Interesting thread, been reading this for the past two days and its been fascinating.

how about a race car, the Allard J2X-C

Remember reading about this on Mulsanne's corner.

Never knew about this!

http://jalopnik.com/the-original-prototype-for-the-mercedes-clk-gtr-was-a-m-321212058

Mercedes buying a McLaren F1 off of a private team to use it as a test prototype for the CLK-GTR. Crashed it, got rid of it. and it's back to a McLaren F1!

That is very interesting to know, rather sneaky and clever way to speed up the process.


Anyhow, here's one very memorable contribution that I can recall and as far as I can tell is hardly ever discussed (Therefore, may not be very familiar to many), The Porsche LMP 2000 (Internally codenamed "93R"):






Car was obviously pinned as the Successor to the 911 GT1, utilized a similar suspension geometry and a Naturally Asperated V10, which ironically ended up in the Carrera GT. Car only ever ran in a single test back in November 1999.

Another interesting bit I recall is that Porsche supposedly denied its existence despite these pics as well as it sitting, ironically, in the racing department workshop in Weissach.

Edit: There was also a internal Porsche Calender featuring this car.

 

[Azure Flare]

@RACECAR You quoted me from almost 5 years ago.

Although, there are a few threads in the car suggestion section that are interesting.

 

[RACECAR]

Yeah, your post seemed like it was ignored so I thought I'd bring it up just so I could post the pic of that car.

That's one car, along with the Porsche, that I'd like to see in any racing sim. Hell, its amazing to me that no one has even attempted a PC mod (though if Porsche coming down on enduracers last year is any indication, that LMP might be a dangerous proposition).

 

[Azure Flare]

the Allard has a suggestion thread.

I wish I could add some info to that thread so it doesn't look like a bump, I am so tempted to do so.

And Porsche knows that people know about the 9R3.

 

[RACECAR]

And Porsche knows that people know about the 9R3.

Really? So they wouldn't deny it as they did before (or so I read)? At this point, its been a long while so it would definitely seem daft at this point to keep this up, but I've seen stranger things.

 

[Azure Flare]

Mulsanne Mike has said (I can't remember when) that he has seen IP addresses from Weissach, pointing to Porsche, and there are a bunch of pictures of the car floating around the internet.

 

[RACECAR]

Mulsanne Mike has said (I can't remember when) that he has seen IP addresses from Weissach, pointing to Porsche, and there are a bunch of pictures of the car floating around the internet.

Seems like from my search, only six pictures actually exist: Two blurry ones from the November test (featuring Allen Mcnish behind the wheel), The two I posted (which look to be from a Magazine perhaps) and the two from the internal Porsche Calender.

 

[Azure Flare]

People keep posting them all over on forums.

 

[RACECAR]

Interestingly, I just found this bit of info posted back in December:

Around 2010 Porsche and Mr. Singer still denied even that car this existed though at this point already everybody knew that the car was reality. A bit later in 2011/12 the first pics appeared in an internal Porsche calender and the archive guys told me that Porsche will lift the wraps soon and publish more pics. After Porsche had announced their LM comeback the PR guys changed their minds and told me they will not publish any pictures of the car as they feared that the press will think the pics of the old LMP2000 are the new 2014 challenger. We insiders must not understand this way of thinking. During my last contact with the archive guys in October 2013 i asked them once more for some pics and got the answer Porsche will not publish any pics in the future. Maybe in a few years. They concentrate on the 919 Hybrid and do not want any discussions about a car that never run.

Not sure I believe the part about people mistaking this as the 2014 car. People can be stupid, but not that stupid...so I hope.

 

[Azure Flare]

I do wonder if anything they learned from the 9R3 went into the RS Spyder.

 

[TheCracker]

I do wonder if anything they learned from the 9R3 went into the RS Spyder.

It looks closer to being a development from the WSC-95. I imagine more knowledge was gained to evolve the Carrera GT than the RS Spyder.