Editor's Note: We originally ran this story in our August 2017 issue. Some info may be slightly different.]
Story by Johan Dillen • Photos by Dirk de Jager
Pinch us. Tell us that this is only a dream: Our convoy consists not only of the Audi Sport quattro but a Renault 5 Turbo, a Peugeot 205 T16 and a Lancia Delta S4 …
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I was expecting Mopar content......
SaltyDog said:
I was expecting Mopar content......
And they delivered so much more!
Where is the video? I need to hear them.
yes, if you talk about Group B, all you hear are the Audi fanboys screaming "Quattro!". While the Lancia was the last and biggest hurrah of the class. I would still love to import a Lancia Delta Integrale, just so I could sit behind the wheel and think of those heady gasoline fueled daze
Why is this here as well as the Classic motorsports forum?
SkinnyG
SuperDork
10/5/17 10:08 p.m.
Not the Anthrax I was expecting....
759NRNG said:
Why is this here as well as the Classic motorsports forum?
That's weird. I don't see it on the Classic forum.
Ed Higginbotham said:
759NRNG said:
Why is this here as well as the Classic motorsports forum?
That's weird. I don't see it on the Classic forum.
'who here also likes killer B's'.....was the other tag line and my bad it was started here not classic 
Slightly updated. Surprised by the lack of Queen references, because these cars are dynamite with a laser beam.
And as luck would have it, we recently featured a Renault R5 Turbo II over on the Classic Motorsport forum.
kb58
SuperDork
10/15/19 11:04 a.m.
It's really surprising to see that the R5 Turbo was roughly as fast as my modified Datsun 1200. Yes, I'm fully aware that comparing a modified This to a stock That is meaningless, but I always had visions of the R5 as being breathtakingly faster. Never meet your heroes (though Peter Egan was a big exception to that :)
I'm not in the market but I sometimes scan the usual sites for a homologated rally car that existed somewhat downstream from the hero-cars in the article.
This model is about as close as I'll ever get.
In reply to ConiglioRampante :
I found a Celica GT-Four this year in Guam. I did not even look at the price. It probably would have followed me home.
When you tell mom you want Anthrax but she says we have Anthrax at home........
ConiglioRampante said:
I'm not in the market but I sometimes scan the usual sites for a homologated rally car that existed somewhat downstream from the hero-cars in the article.
This model is about as close as I'll ever get.
Trivia: There had to be 200 road cars made to homologate certain things, but they could then alter 20 of them further for "Evolution" spec.
According to B255, the homologation number for the Mazda RX-7 that MRTE developed and ran in Group B, the homologation car was the GSL-SE. Mazda made tens of thousands of those, but only for North America.
That allowed them to use the 13B engine. The cars they built for rally were all "Evolution" models that had full floating rear axles, relocated rear suspension links, altered front suspension geometry, an engine and trans straight from the Mazda Competition road racing catalog, composite body panels...
In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
You ain't competing if you ain't cheating...
This is what came to mind when I read the title.
preach said:
In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
You ain't competing if you ain't cheating...
It's not cheating if that is what the rules intended 
MG was a little bizarre in that they didn't bother with making theoretical road vehicles, and simply made 200 competition cars. Ford actually read the rules wrong and made some additional cars for their allowed Evolution models, although some of the first 200 were later converted and given new VINs. The neat thing with RS200s is that they are fairly well documented
