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Old 01-07-2014, 09:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Raman
Funny you are the 3rd person to use the E30 M3 as a rallye body on the XV-01... I just retired mine. Maybe BMW should have done a rallye version of the car.

Last year I did the same, ran it on an 1/8 off road track.. Car jumped great, left the track with zero damage.. Was thoroughly amazed.
They did and won the Corsica Rally in the late ´80s against the Lancias. As far as I remember, BMW rally cars were prepared by Prodrive, the same racing factory that prepared all the winning Subarus.



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