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Originally Posted by nikitopo
Are you aware about the fire on a pre-production Alpine press car in the Monte Carlo race? Complexity and exotic scale isn't necessarily a good thing.
Here are the details and a video of the fire:
https://www.motor1.com/news/238433/a...ar-fire-video/
Yes Subaru or Mazda are cheaper brands and in many cases will use a simpler manufacturing approach, but I would never imagine a press car from them catching fire even if it is not "officially" a production car. And even on the performance area and the slalom results posted a few pages back, it looks that the approach followed by the 86/BRZ works really good even with the stock tires! |
No but my point about referencing the Alpine A110 is that it's the only recent sports car release that bucks the trend and goes down in weight. The Mazda MX-5 is also in this very very small category.
Of course the FT86 is a very good example but it's not a recent car (Released I think 2012) but this stage it's actually sadly considered an old car. I just bought one last year
but have to admit I won't say no to a newer release of the FT86, doubtful as I am that it would happen.