My favorite older American muscle car has to be the 67 Shelby GT-500 aka "Elanor" what's yours?
My favorite older American muscle car has to be the 67 Shelby GT-500 aka "Elanor" what's yours?
The FNM Furia GT.
The Chevy Citation X-11 comes a close second.
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I'm surprised it isn't that one time when International Harvester turbocharged the Scout, but didn't tell anyone about it, and then cancelled it without telling anyone not long after.
inb4 Kitdy claims Parisiennes, Beaumonts, Acadians, and Laurentians as muscle cars even though all modern muscle cars are made in Canadexico anyway.
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You know I only vaguely know of those cars and their names. I am glad your beautiful fetishism for Canada has reminded me of all of them properly. I care for them not.
America can have that one back. Come on! Built in Nova Scotia?! That's like making a car in Northern Ireland!
This one!
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Think about it- how often do you see a street car with an engine based off an engine that was used in a race car?
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I guess the most recent one would be the old 911 GT3s, when they were still using the Metzger engines. Nowadays you're morely likely to see a race car with a production derived engine than a road car with a race derived engine.
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The most recent would've been the stillborn Jaguar CX-75, if had reached production.
On the other hand, is the V8 in the 918 Spyder derived from the V8 in the RS Spyder? And also, the V8 in contemporary McLaren is apparently loosely based on that of endurance racing Nissans from the late nineties and early noughties.
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Same architecture, but enlargenated.
According to the font of all knowledge:
McLaren bought the rights to the Tom Walkinshaw Racing-developed version of the Nissan VRH35 racing engine, as used in Le Mans in 1998. However, other than the 93 mm bore, little of that engine remains in the M838T
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True, but Ferrari hasn't used a racing engine in a production car in quite some time I think.
That was the engine I was referring to. You're right, if it works on a production car, it'll probably work in a racing application. With some serious modifications.
The CX-75 in the turbo 4 cylinder form or the jet engine form? Where else was that 4 cylinder used?
That would be the most recent and best example of racing engines used in road cars I think. That car was awesome.
Oh, and the McLaren F1 of course.
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I think that the so called race derived engines have next to nothing or nothing at all with their production variants and that it's all marketing BS
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