[VIVA GT]

Originally Posted by KA

...Something else that struck me is that there are definite national differences in the Group A scene, particuarly between the UK and Europe and the Australia/NZ/Japan- examples are the Mustang- http://www.racingsportscars.com/etcc...-07-31-023.jpg which was
pretty rare in Europe (I can only think of the CC Motorsport car, Seikel's car in '87 and the Zakspeed cars that ended up with Dick Johnson in Australia, whereas there were quite a few- Johnson, Don Smith, the Anderson's Pinepac cars etc- in Australia/NZ), similarly the Nissan Skylines (quite a few in Aus/NZ, very common in Japan almost unknown in Europe).

On the other hand, the Rover, which was fairly commonly campaigned in the UK with quite a few around Europe, but only ever a couple in Australia and one in Japan. There were even significant local differences in Europe- think how many Volvos were campaigned in Sweden and Germany, but it's a car never seen in the BTCC

One thing that may explain this is that (don't forget) the BTCC had an overally capacity limit to prevent large capacity engined cars to race (and presumably keep the competing cars to those usually seen on the UK roads)