Originally Posted by SimonT
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Group N has always confused me a bit cos it's such a random letter, lol
Group B was the best (while it lasted tho), lol
Peugeot made that monster 205 Turbo and of course, selling 200 205's was no problem
Audi made a beast version of the quattro, again it was a production car, so no worries selling 200 of 'em
Austin-Rover sold millions of metros, so the 6R4 got in
then Ford decided to build a car to decimate all. A bit like an off-road GT40, lol. So they did, the RS200. Went to sell 200, would have been easy cos it was by far the best car in there, but Ford did it arse-backwards, so when it crashed into a wall of spectators a few rallies later and injured a load of people, killed a few, the sport got banned for being so dangerous. Ford had 200 of the things to shift and that just happened to be the week that the stock market crashed. It never rains, but it pours, eh?
so who wants to buy a Ford with absolutely no rallying heritage for £50,000 in 1986 when everyone's skint, lol
a commercial disaster, but an iconic cult car worth a bomb now, lol