[Falcadore]

The car that Longhurst drove at Adelaide was canned after that one meeting because it was essentially a fictional creation that failed to conform to any known Touring Car regulation.

A Super Touring car fitted with Group A mechanicals?

At one point the new Group 3A Falcadores were being considered at about 400/450 horsepower instead of 600+ that they became, it was hoped that Super Touring might be able to compete in a form of level playing field, hence the evolution of the 1993 race format which saw the two and five litre cars each getting a points heat with a merged final.

However those behind the technical evolution of the VP Commodore and EB Falcon quickly ensured that Super Touring would not be able to compete and V8Supercar evolved.

Nissan were gone, turbos were officially on the nose, but BMW were still looking for an opportunity or an angle and eventually the E30 M3 Group A cars received a grandfather clause for a single season but after Bathurst '92 M3 Motorsport (Cotter/Doulman) saw the way for small bores and tossed their 2.3 and 2.5 motors in favour of 2.0 litres and were ready for when Colin Bond announced his Caltex team and Toyota would link up and develop the Corolla fastback Seca into a touring car, creating in the end a fascinating show down and an extremely controversial result as Peter Doulman defeated John Smith to win the first Super Touring title in Australia.

The E36 "M3" may have been an attempt to put forward the value of a variation of Group 1 (DTM) to compete against Group 3a (V8Supercar) instead of Group 2 (Supertouring). Essentially the car was built out of wishful thinking.