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Old 27 Apr 2012, 15:07 (Ref:3066196)   #176
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the Volvo in black looks mean!
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Old 27 Apr 2012, 15:09 (Ref:3066197)   #177
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Apparently they haven't got permission to use the BMW logos and such, something that's been rumoured for a long time but not many have believed it. But the BMW decals on the body confuses me. TBH, I don't like the looks of the "BMW" at all, first time I think I've said that about a BMW. Might change whe we see it out on track and not in a showroom with its speial lightening.

The S60 body looks beautiful, but the livery is aweful and boring. Dahlgren and Rustad will race the black one, while Ekblom and Björk will race a Polestar blue car each. There will also be other liveries on the other cars, like Team Tidö etc.
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Old 27 Apr 2012, 15:09 (Ref:3066198)   #178
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Just been looking at the TTA website... In the Team Profiles, the car is called "BMW Silhouette Replica"

It just seems strange, either BMW should have allowed them to badge it as a BMW, or not backed the project at all. A BMW Dealer Team running a "BMW Silhouette Replica" just seems weird.
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Old 27 Apr 2012, 15:15 (Ref:3066199)   #179
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This is how the badge on the WCR car looks like: http://www.teknikensvarld.se/Global/...b-Volvo-06.jpg

WCR are a BMW Dealer Team, but as BMW Sweden said in a Swedish automotive magazine, BMW are mostly interested in their GT racing programme with the M3 GT4 and Z4 GT3. But now they are using it for the TTA car as well, and I'm not sure what BMW thinks about that since they couldn't give permission to badge the TTA car properly. TTA has been good at confusing us with these sort of things, as Citroen has shown us
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Old 27 Apr 2012, 15:16 (Ref:3066200)   #180
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I wonder why BMW blocked this.... there's a bunch of BMW silhouettes in France and Belgium and neither has to be that far removed from the original.

I get not using the badges, but the grill makes it almost unrecognizable...

I guess TTA being rather higher profile than VdeV or BTCS might play into it, but that doesn't mean that I have to like it. Maybe they'll change their mind once there is a BMW engine available down the road.

Other than that, I really like the look of the cars, very clean, yet aggressive.
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Old 27 Apr 2012, 15:17 (Ref:3066202)   #181
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Very odd indeed, though the car looks good. It still amazes me they chose the E92 though, the F30 would be a much better choice. Also very odd that they're using the 2-door model while the rest of the field uses 4-door saloons. Dissapointing car, but nonetheless a great field!
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Old 28 Apr 2012, 11:39 (Ref:3066494)   #182
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The Volvo and SAAB look very nice. Don't like the Citroen (livery) and BMW (front and livery).

The BMW situation is very odd. Doesn't make sense to have BMW decals on the car but no BMW front.

Citroen and Brovallen are friends again?
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Old 28 Apr 2012, 12:09 (Ref:3066504)   #183
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The Volvo and SAAB look very nice. Don't like the Citroen (livery) and BMW (front and livery).

The BMW situation is very odd. Doesn't make sense to have BMW decals on the car but no BMW front.

Citroen and Brovallen are friends again?
TTA just wrote on their own forum (translated into English):

"WestCoast Racings car is a BMW and its oficially allowed to be called that from BMW Motorsport. Although its taking longer time to get approval for the logo and front grill."

I guess they are hoping to get the approval before the season starts. Since the body's have just recently been finalised all paperwork isnt ready yet.


The point Citroen made was that Brovallen is not an official Citroen approved "factory team", to officially represent Citroen, in the same way as WCR is the official BMW Dealer Team. However, Brovallen has got support from most Citroen dealers in Sweden, but not from Citroen HQ, so to say.

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Old 28 Apr 2012, 16:19 (Ref:3066588)   #184
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The WCR BMW looks pretty odd from the front.
More like a Nissan 350 then a BMW.

Looks like the body does not really fit the frame , different size.
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Old 28 Apr 2012, 16:32 (Ref:3066594)   #185
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I was actually thinking "Skoda"...

And I still don't get why this can race with a BMW grill and logo, even though it's Chevy V8 powered.
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Old 28 Apr 2012, 16:49 (Ref:3066601)   #186
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Maybe because they didn't ask BMW and it's more low profile?
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Old 2 May 2012, 18:09 (Ref:3068397)   #187
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After the first Test Day
Karlskoga Raceway Test – Top 10

1. Robin Rudholm Saab 9-3 1:04.108
2. Richard Göransson BMW SR +0.175
3. Linus Ohlsson Saab 9-3 +0.235
4. Fredrik Larsson BMW SR +0.423
5. Martin Öhlin BMW SR +0.845
6. Andreas Ebbesson BMW SR +0.851
7. Fredrik Ekblom Volvo S60 +1.094
8. Stefan Söderberg Citroën C5 +1.172
9. Thed Björk Volvo S60 +1.183
10. Tommy Rustad Volvo S60 +1.502

As next: Anderstorp 3/5
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Old 3 May 2012, 09:12 (Ref:3068653)   #188
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Apparently DTM is interested in running up to four joint races in the future. Also Jan Nilsson claims there's a lot of interest from other countries to run TTA spec cars.

http://nwt.se/sport/motorsport/article1099917.ece

(The article is in swedish but google translate should at least give you the general idea.)
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Old 3 May 2012, 11:52 (Ref:3068756)   #189
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Any video footage available from the test days?
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Old 3 May 2012, 13:01 (Ref:3068786)   #190
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Apparently DTM is interested in running up to four joint races in the future. Also Jan Nilsson claims there's a lot of interest from other countries to run TTA spec cars.

http://nwt.se/sport/motorsport/article1099917.ece

(The article is in swedish but google translate should at least give you the general idea.)
But where? DTM hasn't so far bothered to run a race in Scandinavia (Despite a Scandinavian being one of their biggest stars), so why should they now? I read it that Flash plans to hold a sort-of European championship with Solution-F cars, which will runs as a support to DTM. Sounds like a decent idea, but which championships might use Solution-F?
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Old 3 May 2012, 15:20 (Ref:3068875)   #191
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Just thinking out loud, but the Solution-F-cars could perhaps save the ITR's bacon for their planned US-offshot. Right now it seems like they have a hard time drumming up the money for a full field, but if they go for two classes - one for DTM and one for 'DTM light' - as Flash likes to call it -it might be easier to get a full grid, with the lower running costs for Solution F and all...
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Old 4 May 2012, 07:20 (Ref:3069128)   #192
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Any video footage available from the test days?
I'll answer myself; I found this short clip of the TTA SAAB in action at Karlskoga, posted 1 day ago; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y867WirAjLk
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They pushed a lot harder than that today at Anderstorp. IMHO it's going to be awesome!
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Old 5 May 2012, 10:10 (Ref:3069668)   #194
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Video from the tests in Karlskoga and Anderstorp:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=_z0HtleidHs
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Old 7 May 2012, 08:52 (Ref:3070541)   #195
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any live streaming by TV10.se for the Opening Round confirmed yet?
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Old 7 May 2012, 09:38 (Ref:3070567)   #196
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any live streaming by TV10.se for the Opening Round confirmed yet?
If there's going to be live streaming I think it's going to be through viaplay.se and afaik you can't use their service outside of Sweden.
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If there's going to be live streaming I think it's going to be through viaplay.se and afaik you can't use their service outside of Sweden.
isn't in viaplay schedule yet. http://viaplay.se/sport/samtliga/413...hedule#day0512
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The 4th Citreon C5, erm sorry 'Brovallen Design', driver is due to be announced today. Maybe. Anyone got any ideas? Whomever it turns out to be, they will have missed out on the two test days so may find it hard to be up to speed straight away. My guess is Tobias Johansson.
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Old 11 May 2012, 11:49 (Ref:3072641)   #200
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TTA has confirmed to broadcast via viaplay as well.
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