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Originally Posted by crmalcolm
It is this difference that may be the route DTM has to go if it will survive.
Entries built without manufacturer backing, by specialist touring car constructors. Ran by the constructors themselves or as customer teams.
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In that case you are basically locked into using road-car shells instead of tubeframes as well, as manufacturers (at least the German ones) have historically always prevented the use of unauthorized silhouettes. There's not much they can do if you take an Audi shell and label it an Audi, because that's what it is, after all - but if you want to slap the Audi name on a tube chassis, you better have good lawyers - and even then you'll probably have to stop calling your car an Audi and modify it until it has only a passing resemblance to an A3/4/5/6/7.