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  1. tbtstt said:
    OFF TOPIC: An original RS200 Evo - and arguably the best prepared street RS200 - is now up for sale: 

    http://www.classicandperformancecar.com/ford/rs200/1986-ford-rs200-evo-in-united-kingdom/246144/ad

    This is absolute automotive perfection...







    Its so pretty *___*

    I have to ask though and forgive my ignorance if this is correct but it lists it as Front Wheel Drive, was this true for the street versions?
    That description is incorrect @SirPhilMcKraken: all variants were 4WD. The little red lever you can see in the last photo is what controls the power split (50/50, 37/63 or full rear wheel drive). 

    In a lot of the road cars the linkage for this was either locked or completely removed: apparently a fully RWD RS200 was a bit of a handful! 

  2. KevM said:
    dwkGravey said:
    edgenz said:
    The chopper footage shows how flipping close he was to flying straight into a spectator's car. Unbelievably lucky!
    I still can't believe this is the worst that came of it:

    https://twitter.com/IvanOrdazGP/status/841025244496244736

    Volkswagen, still trying hard to keep drivers off the podium!  :D


    Haha! That's pretty good. I wonder if the Citroen team offered to knock out the dents for him? 

  3. Dytut said:
    tbtstt said:
    gfRally said:
    Question: what would YOU do with that bumper?  Have it signed?  Ebay it?  
    I'd Ebay it, then use the money to pay for the repair of the f**ked rear end of my car! 

    I have rewatched the clip multiple times now and Meeke was so lucky, that could so easily have been a retirement there. Fair play to Citroen, the C3 may have some handling issues on other surfaces, but it seems to be a tough car. 

    Three different winners, from three different manufacturers in the first three rounds. Tarmac next, I wonder who will perform best? 
    Well it's time for Neuville, isn't it? :-)
    Four from four would be pretty cool to see! 

  4. gfRally said:
    Question: what would YOU do with that bumper?  Have it signed?  Ebay it?  
    I'd Ebay it, then use the money to pay for the repair of the f**ked rear end of my car! 

    I have rewatched the clip multiple times now and Meeke was so lucky, that could so easily have been a retirement there. Fair play to Citroen, the C3 may have some handling issues on other surfaces, but it seems to be a tough car. 

    Three different winners, from three different manufacturers in the first three rounds. Tarmac next, I wonder who will perform best? 

  5. Pretty incredible finish to the rally. Great to see the C3 delivering on gravel and both Meeke and Neuville with a decent result. Would be good to see the top of the table close up more, but I'm perhaps being a little demanding there: this season continues to deliver on the early promise, fingers crossed it stays this way!

  6. I'm not mechanically informed, but is the lack of ALS enough to drop four seconds on a SSS? I think that Latvala's lack of pace isn't purely related to his car. Still, go Sisu! He'll hopefully bounce back tomorrow, rejuvenated with a fixed Jaris.
    Absolutely. Without ALS a turbo will be slower to spool and off throttle response will be greatly reduced. Given the new regulations, my assumption is that they are running bigger turbos for 2017, which would exacerbate the problem even further.

  7. Ridiculous planning to have the stage so far away that the crews had to take a flight to get to it! And I know delays on the road aren't the organisers fault, but the cars should never have been that far away in the first place!
    Absolutely! Piss poor planning from the organizers, stupid to deviate from the tried and tested format of previous years when it comes to the spectator stages. 

  8. @KickUp

    Is the game going to simulate having a 1km spectator stage to start the rally and then a randomly generated chance of cancelling half of the rest of the rally?

    If not, I'm calling arcade. Or just that DiRT's organisers are much better organised than the FIA.....
    Good shout @RodgerDavies. Perhaps it could be implemented in the form of a random "stuck in traffic" bonus level?

  9. tbtstt said:
    AnegloPlz said:
    Slightly OT: I just got delivered this rad Dirt 4 tshirt signed by Petter Solberg and Kris Meeke which was given away on facebook by the official WRX page....yep, I'm a lucky bastard XD Surprisingly it even fits well but I'm about to hang it on the wall as a trophy :p
    I wear mine with pride too :D

    https://twitter.com/paulwoodford84/status/835181641198891008


    Is yours signed @Rallycameraman? 
    No, but I got something else that was signed from @KickUp which I am delighted to have. 

    The amount of stuff hidden in drawers in Codies is outrageous!
    Haha! More cool stuff than storage space. What did you get? I am managing to suppress my jealously of the signed item thus far...

    (...unless you tell me it's signed by Petter or Colin)

  10. AnegloPlz said:
    Slightly OT: I just got delivered this rad Dirt 4 tshirt signed by Petter Solberg and Kris Meeke which was given away on facebook by the official WRX page....yep, I'm a lucky bastard XD Surprisingly it even fits well but I'm about to hang it on the wall as a trophy :p
    I wear mine with pride too :D

    https://twitter.com/paulwoodford84/status/835181641198891008


    Is yours signed @Rallycameraman? 

  11. tbtstt said:
    AnegloPlz said:
    Slightly OT: I just got delivered this rad Dirt 4 tshirt signed by Petter Solberg and Kris Meeke which was given away on facebook by the official WRX page....yep, I'm a lucky bastard XD Surprisingly it even fits well but I'm about to hang it on the wall as a trophy :p
    @SirPhilMcKraken and I saw several of those getting signed at the London event: they were all whisked away before we could grab one though! :D

    Congrats! 
    I know, I was thinking that when I saw this post haha. Shame! Oh well, I got to battle Meeke so I was happy :P
    Don't you mean beat Meeke?  ;)

  12. AnegloPlz said:
    Slightly OT: I just got delivered this rad Dirt 4 tshirt signed by Petter Solberg and Kris Meeke which was given away on facebook by the official WRX page....yep, I'm a lucky bastard XD Surprisingly it even fits well but I'm about to hang it on the wall as a trophy :p
    @SirPhilMcKraken and I saw several of those getting signed at the London event: they were all whisked away before we could grab one though! :D

    Congrats! 

  13. This is probably too early to ask since its not out yet but does anyone think they will still play DR when D4 is out? I think initially I may do due to VR support is already in DR but the physics in will be hard to adapt back to from D4 I imagine.
    With the changes coming to the rallycross cars (and the increase in rallycross circuits) for D4, I can't see me returning to play that on DR. I'm sure I will fire DR up again to revisit Pikes Peak and certain rally stages though. 

  14. B ) Will/should cars be balanced against each other in class or should they have performance differences (eg, should a 6R4 be competitive with a 205, a 2001 Focus with a 2007 one?)
    I'm going to say no. I would personally like the cars to reflect their real life equivalents. I know that is going to result in leaderboards dominated by one or maybe two cars, but I would like the cars to be as true to reality as possible. Even if that does mean they are a bit slower than their rivals. 

    E) Should I go to Rally Germany or Rally Zlin this year? They're on subsequent weekends and I can only realistically do one.
    I'm going to say Rally Germany. Based on what we saw in Monte, I think the 2017 WRCars are going to be bonkers to watch on German tarmac: I think it would be worth being there for that!

  15. sqdstr said:
    Neuville fastest on shakedown in Mexico
    http://www.wrc.com/en/wrc/news/march-2017/mexico-shakedown/page/4350--12-12-.html
    Once again Neuville seems to have the speed, he just needs to avoid solid objects. 

    That's a bold statement from Citroen: if the car has been predominantly tested on gravel then it should be in it's element in Mexico. For Meeke's sake I really hope it does will this weekend. 

  16. tbtstt said:
    As I said in my previous post the trio had a history of making jokes with number plates and, with the knowledge of history that I know both Clarkson and May possess, I find it very, very, hard to believe that neither of them made the connection. Having said that...
    They did make a lot of jokes on the number plates, but those were always improvised, not scripted. Top Gear does a lot of scripting, but any number plate jokes they made was not scripted, they all been pure coincidence.
    Also I still can't understand how some people made a connection between a number plate of "H982 FKL" and the Falkland war. First of all, when you're giving a year, it's either full date or just the tenths, aka either 1982 or '82. You don't do "982", so that automatically implies it's not a date. That sounds more like a number of a submarine or something.
    And then there's the "FKL" part. If I was to shorten "Falkland" into 3 letters, it would definitely be "FLK", not "FKL" as that sounds more like "F**k lands" rather than "Falkland".
    The problem is not in whether the guys looked for some number plate that relates to that war, but more on the fact that there's a bunch of Argentinians that see the Falkland war on everywhere that is British related. I wouldn't be surprised if they found DiRT to be an insult to them, because it's made by a British company...

    We'll have to agree to disagree there @RyuMakkuro. As you say though...
    But let's stop beating a dead horse and move on. So I'll jump on the rally argentina screenshots bandwagon xD


    ...enough of that: now back to the DiRTy Gossip! 

  17. Those of you thinking they staged the number plate should watch this.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rkw_N9pNms

    Snaky115 said:
    The plate is not a fake as far as i am concerned, as its first officially registered in the UK in 1991, far before Clarkson's Top Gear started.
    Sigh.
    I am probably more confused by the arguments all sides throw, apart from that Clarkson, even for his monkey brain, wouldn't do things that would harm the rest of the video crew.
    I have seen clips about the history of the car/plate before @F2CMaDMaXX. I certainly don't disagree that the plate was real @Snaky115 (I don't think the BBC would go to the lengths of paying the DVLA to falsify records!), but I don't believe that the selection of the car was accidental. As I said in my previous post the trio had a history of making jokes with number plates and, with the knowledge of history that I know both Clarkson and May possess, I find it very, very, hard to believe that neither of them made the connection. Having said that...
    KevM said:
    tbtstt said:
    JZStudios said:
    Argentina isn't British, Argentinians hate the British. They tried to take The Falkland Islands of us, and our troops travelled halfway round the world to take them back
    Some Argentines hate the British. I, for one, love the British! Also the Falklands are all yours xoxo
    Yeah, but the few hateful Argentinians ruin it for everybody. We've all seen how well Top Gear's Peace Keeping soccer trip went, due to a random number on the license plate.
    DiRTy Thread Off Topic: There is no way in a million years that was a random number plate! They had done multiple number plate gags in Top Gear prior to the Argentina trip yet they expect us to believe that they just happened to pick a car that had that number plate? Sorry, but that is far too much of a coincidence for me...

    ...the local reaction was perhaps excessive, but it was only by a minority: I certainly wouldn't make a generalization on Argentina because of that. 
    I reckon the whole thing was staged for television purposes.  The American road trip was far too similar in its attack from locals
    ...I think they underestimated how violent the reaction was from the locals @KevM. Those Americans looked annoyed, but not a patch on the Argentinians. Still, did them a favour really as, aside from the attack, I found it one of the least interesting Top Gear specials!

  18. JZStudios said:
    Argentina isn't British, Argentinians hate the British. They tried to take The Falkland Islands of us, and our troops travelled halfway round the world to take them back
    Some Argentines hate the British. I, for one, love the British! Also the Falklands are all yours xoxo
    Yeah, but the few hateful Argentinians ruin it for everybody. We've all seen how well Top Gear's Peace Keeping soccer trip went, due to a random number on the license plate.
    DiRTy Thread Off Topic: There is no way in a million years that was a random number plate! They had done multiple number plate gags in Top Gear prior to the Argentina trip yet they expect us to believe that they just happened to pick a car that had that number plate? Sorry, but that is far too much of a coincidence for me...

    ...the local reaction was perhaps excessive, but it was only by a minority: I certainly wouldn't make a generalization on Argentina because of that. 

  19. tbtstt said:
    (I'm going to miss the S1 though: I personally prefer the look of it to the E2).
    I'm going to miss the fact I'll not be missing the bouncing issues that the S1 has in DR xD (yep, still not touching the rally part, only rallycross, and I agree, I'm a retard and an idiot :D )
    Haha! Well it just occured to me that there is still a possibility that the E2 may not be a rally car: we know that there are some Group B rallycross cars in game, so perhaps the E2 will be in this class and the car in the Group B rally car class will still be the S1? 

  20. sqdstr said:
    I wish they released a screenshot or some footage from the Quattro :smile:
    Yeah, I'd like to see (and hear) some video of the E2 in action. Going to be good to see one of (if not the) most iconic car of the Group B era in game. 

    (I'm going to miss the S1 though: I personally prefer the look of it to the E2).
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