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>The BMW M3 GTR was a road-going version of the BMW M3 GTR racing car. It was launched as a small series of just ten vehicles and was primarily used to homologa
by Hamuko 2y ago
>The BMW M3 GTR was a road-going version of the BMW M3 GTR racing car. It was launched as a small series of just ten vehicles and was primarily used to homologate the new V8 engine (P60B40).
BMW continuing to stretch the definitions of "launched" and "ten".
- fredoralive 2y agoThere's a tradition of "homologation specials" where a car company produces the absolute minimum number of cars for a vehicle or part to count as "production" for use in notionally "stock" racing series.
- Hamuko 2y agoArguably BMW did not produce even the "absolute minimum number" of cars, since they were required to have at least ten cars to sell and only managed to produce three production-level cars, which they never actually sold. There were a handful of other GTR Straßenversions made during development, but I doubt they even had VINs, and I'm not sure if even counting those would get them to ten. Hence the questionable uses of the words "launched" and "ten".
- fredoralive 2y agoReminds me of tales from the Group B days where Austin Rover allegedly wheeled far fewer than the required 200 MG Metro 6R4s past the FIA inspector in a big loop.