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Originally Posted by V8 Fireworks

Did the punters really want it?

They managed to alienate not just BMW and Nissan, but Toyota, Mitsubishi and Alfa Romeo too.

2000cc rules on the other hand, would have allowed for wonderful variety as seen in the BTCC... Instead you just got two weak series -- only 10 professional cars in ATCC, and another 5 or 6 professional cars in Super Touring, then privateers making up the rest...


Nissan, BMW, Toyota, Ford and Holden all competing on equal footing! Wouldn't it have been grand. Such a shame.

While it was amusing how the early 5.0L cars handled and the degree of forcefulness in getting the softly sprung sliding, pitching, rolling uncooperative thing around a circuit -- the modern Supercars sadly handle nowhere near as bad, and is not nearly as amusing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathur...A_race_divided


I didn't know V8 at all back then. But the fact is that V8 became more popular than Supertouring.