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Car companies don't sell their race cars.
by davedunkin 10y ago
Car companies don't sell their race cars.
- toufka 10y agoBut they do sell to the public AMG, Motorsport, and TRD versions of their regular car lines even when they are not 'big sellers'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-AMG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-AMG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_M https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_M https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Racing_Development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Racing_Development just as Apple used to have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Pro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Pro
- treehau5 10y agoI don't know how to explain it -- but as an enthusiast, I sorely, sorely miss the S2000 and hope Honda comes out with something similar. It really feels like it lost something without it.
- resist_futility 10y agothe new type R is probably the closest they'll make
- sjtgraham 10y agoYes they do. Homogolation rules mean they have to do exactly that.
- redial 10y agoBut the cars on those competitions are not truly race cars, at least not in the way a normal person would imagine a race car. In fact, homologations rules are in place to prevent true race cars from competing. F1 and LMP race cars are not sold. Not even FE cars are sold.