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18 Sep 2019, 06:30 (Ref:3928623) | #877 | ||
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Lynk and Co open up orders for their car:
https://www.touringcartimes.com/2019...heOo2Z7PLMJaOg Bang on the 130k Euro cap price, and "priority will be given to Chinese orders" with deliveries to start in 2020... How's that work with the 90 day rule? Surely they are taking the ****. |
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18 Sep 2019, 21:31 (Ref:3928754) | #878 | ||
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What is the 90 day rule?
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18 Sep 2019, 22:49 (Ref:3928757) | #879 | |
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Under TCR Rules
For certification the minimum race car production will be 10 units in 12 consecutive months starting with the date of the application. After the certification the cars have to be offered on the market with maximum 3 months delivery time. So should anyone order a Lynk and Co on the 19th September which as the order books are open they can the latest the car can be delivered is 19th December. |
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19 Sep 2019, 00:39 (Ref:3928765) | #880 | |
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They've built several spare chassis outside of the 4 that are being raced.
So potentially, the build quota has been met. |
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19 Sep 2019, 03:57 (Ref:3928787) | #881 | ||
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Either the whole thing is a sham.
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20 Sep 2019, 01:10 (Ref:3929005) | #882 | |
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MPC are running the Britek Golfs this weekend, thus all associated branding with MSR/Alliance Autosport has vanished off the cars.
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20 Sep 2019, 12:21 (Ref:3929075) | #883 | |
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20 Sep 2019, 12:40 (Ref:3929079) | #884 | ||
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It has only started to comply when pressure was applied.
It's not my barrow. They willl not sell a car outside of China for the next year. Mark my words. But TCR was so keen they don't care. They have only forced them to comply in some sort of paper sense when Hyundai got up about it. Go find me a picture of one of these road cars that an owner has posted? |
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20 Sep 2019, 23:53 (Ref:3929177) | #885 | ||
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Despite the fact that for a car to be eligible for TCR Competition 5,000 have to be built within 12 consecutive months. |
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21 Sep 2019, 00:02 (Ref:3929178) | #886 | ||
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Manufacturer claims to sell between 3 and 4 thousand a month. But there are no dealers.
They should have already had the car on sale to customers in order to be eligible to compete, now they are saying they will begin sales in 2020 and Chinese customers will get priority. So there is no transparency here, this is likely a full factory effort and I don't believe they are making any genuine effort to comply with the rules. I think potentially there should be a rule preventing entry into WTCR without some other TCR entries to stop the gaming or the BOP. Time will tell if we see any of these in another series next year or ever in the hands of genuine customer teams. I am deeply skeptical. The Chinese will make up their own rules if the rule makers don't enforce the rules. And increasingly TCR rules look rubbery. |
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21 Sep 2019, 00:32 (Ref:3929181) | #888 | ||
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The Volvo is a good example, because the homologation cars never really existed.
I am not aware of issues with the rest. |
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22 Sep 2019, 09:16 (Ref:3929371) | #891 | ||
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The fact that none of the 505 were sold to end customers with the homologated parts, except for the intercooler, was a decision taken by the USA importer who decided that the resulting turbo lag from the bigger turbo was unacceptable for the USA market, and all of the turbo's and water injection kits were removed, and shipped back to Sweden were they were sold as part of the official Volvo R Sport aftermarket parts program. FYI. None of the 505 Evolution cars were ever used by VMS to build the factory GpA cars because all 505 cars were fitted with sunroofs, instead they used the 1983 billy basic 242 DL body shell's for the factory VMS GpA cars. It needs to be understood that the FIA only required that a minimum of 500 Evolution cars had to be built, there was never a requirement that they had to be sold! You can call it cynical but Volvo played by the same rules as did all the other GpA manufactures cars. Cheers, Mark Petch. |
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22 Sep 2019, 11:47 (Ref:3929398) | #892 | ||
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Mark, the audit was a sham. Pretty well documented now that only 30 cars were built, the rest had all the parts in the boot. Loophole if you like and far from the only one but the 240 was not legally bomologated as was intended.
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22 Sep 2019, 21:15 (Ref:3929529) | #893 | ||
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Your statement that there was only 30 ever built is also misleading unless you are talking about actual log booked GpA Volvo 240T race cars, and that figure could well be right, if you take in the home built specials like Lauri Hazzelton's ex Repco Rally 240GT car, that raced in only one Australian GpA race, Oran Park in 1987, and DNF, due to a heavy crash. FYI. There were only 12 VMS serial numbered works supported cars ever built, but a great deal more GpA complying 240 race cars were built up by privateers from ex Volvo Turbo Cup cars. You are no doubt aware that a tell all book is soon to be published, written by the late Goran Sallstrom [Project Engineer at Volvo AB and the so called father of the 240T GpA cars] assisted by Bjorn Ohlson, and myself, with the Australian chapter. Perhaps you might like to reserve any further comment on the subject until you have read the book. You are also no doubt aware I still own one of the original 12 VMS works car's, ex Thomas Lindstrom. ex Eggenberger, ex RAS, ex John Bowe and the actual car that crossed the line at Oran Park, driven by Robbie Francevic to win the 1986 ATCC. Cheers, Mark Petch. |
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22 Sep 2019, 22:28 (Ref:3929546) | #894 | |
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Mark, please keep us updated when the book is released, sounds like it will be an interesting to read, just like the Allan Scott / TWR books.
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22 Sep 2019, 23:10 (Ref:3929550) | #895 | ||
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Mark, I will find you the reference material I read. You know I know who you are but that is immaterial to this moment in 83.
No doubt the paperwork exists for 505 cars. There were 505 cars on the dock. But the vast majority of the flathood, never had the homologation parts fitted. Apparently 7 cars were. If you want to believe 470 cars had parts removed, on the docks in the USA before they were sold rather than a swifty being pulled by one person or the other, go ahead. It doesn't change history. But now long enough has passed that these stories are out. |
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23 Sep 2019, 00:54 (Ref:3929555) | #896 | ||
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Who was the manufacturer, all those years ago, who put the parts in the boot of your new car to comply with the rules?
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23 Sep 2019, 01:46 (Ref:3929560) | #899 | ||
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