Managed to do one kilometer with car that moves when is going past start (dat explanation skills) in czech car and czech driver in speed 276 km/h. Car was specialy desgined by Tatra and restauration workshop Ecorra Lubina to surpass the record from 1950s, but different guy took one day before Ecorra ride MTX Tatra Sport V8 and surpassed the 50s record with much lower speed. Records can be overwritten one time per year, and Ecorra team did not tried it again in 1998. So this car didnt officialy surpassed the record, but defacto it did by 66 km/h.

Later, the car was bought by some racing team and it did about 70 races, but there are no good sources of which races were drive with it and in what place did this finished.

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record of what?

Did Tatra actually lose a lot of money in 10 years? I think the models of the 60s look really interesting, like something rich people would drive. These 90s models however look kind of simple and behind on luxury cars from the UK and USA.

A long time ago, after a quite serious crash is this car converted to coupe. Sadly, engine was replaced by standard one with 1/2 of the original 700 GT power. Original 700 GT engine was mounted to car called Grafit (graphite), and I have feeling that I find the car, now called Tatra Grafit - kinda looks like homemade lambo.

Desscythe17 wrote
Well, it have 4 wheels and roof, but I see your point. In CZ we have it aswell, that you can drive it when you have scooter licence. I called it in my comment rounabout (oddly, when I translate it from CZ to EN, it works, but not vice versa - it means something like small car, that is not suited for long trips and driving outside of town), and micro-car would be suitable too I guess.

JFK wrote
I don't know if you can actually call it a car. In the Netherlands, you only need a scooter license to drive them. Also they are not counted towards Dutch car sales.

i see one of this rare car today...

What a fancy name with long history of using it on hi-powered cars for roundabout with amazing 5 HP.

JFK wrote

They did it to make this car able to start in 1600 ccm class (due to 1,4 coefficient). But I have no idea why they chose 120 engine instead 105. Maybe because S120 engine is a little bit "squarer" what is make engine more flexible. But it's just a blind guess.

Rinspeed wrote
Thx

JFK wrote
At the top of the table of points for a championship

I guess because back in 1990s were combis bought to haul stuff and not to be pretty, so Peugeot just passed the Break. Mercedes CLS Shooting Brake with expensive kind of wood floor is an example of degeneration of combis these days.
BTW: where I can find this line? A = Accept, E = Edit, R = Add results for a driver, D = Delete I am not sure in which exact context it is, so I need to see the page for correct translation of "Add results for a driver"

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it seems that the Break hadn't the restyling that the rear of the sedan had in 1992

fck wrote
Well, that is the first time I heard about somebody did from bigger engine smaller. Usually for racecars mechanics will do the standard engine bigger.

JFK wrote

Why not? It was just a one-off, like polish 'Stratopolonez' - webcarstory.com/voiture.php?id=1182

JFK wrote

According to Karel Repa's book "Škoda 130 RS : vítěz Mistrovství Evropy značek 1981" it was downsized 120 engine.

If origin of engine is from standard car, it isnt a 120 engine, but slightly resized 105. As far as I know this type of car wasnt made with 1100 cc engine, only with 1050 or 1200 and later with 1300 cc ones.

Well, V8 5.0 liter american motor powered Skoda is a thing you dont see every day. Shouldnt it be Origin UK or CZ - Made for UK? Because this car would be impossibru to made in eastern bloc.

yes

Rinspeed wrote
Higgins is driving with Isle of Man flag on his car www.redbullglobalrallycross.com/drivers/david-higgins/
So to add him as United Kingdom?

Mark0 wrote
Isle of Man isn't a country

After some searching it appears that Renault give Ralf-Car vehicle and they prepare it for TCR Russia.

Rinspeed can you create flag for Isle of Man?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Man

Kinda hard to tell with this one...is it supposed to preview a return of the CX-7 (if it has 5 seats) or the next CX-9 (if it has 7 or more)?

The shape of the rear has me leaning towards CX-7.

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With the front and rear looking like they do, it almost looks like a modernized version of a 50's concept car. Love the transforming tail, great for aerodynamics.

I remember when word first broke out about this, I read somewhere saying this would be the next Z.

Of course, that's not true. It's just Z-inspired, though could point in some direction to what the next Z will look like, and maybe even the next Juke?

This is beautiful. Though it's obviously smaller than the Panamera, if this in any way points in the direction of what the next Panamera...and Porsches in general...they're gonna have a great future ahead of them.

Seems a lot like a modern day RSC, in my opinion.

JFK wrote

In fact - 4 years. But there were major exterior changes for 1981 season, not sure about technical ones.

Yes, it was for hill climbing and it was racing for at least 3 years. You can see pages Závody (Races) 1979, Závody 1980, and Závody 1981 with photos in it, that is my source.