A £40000 V6 Metro?

The only justification needed to buy a 6R4 is to hear one come full chat down a forest stage. If you walk away with non-sticky keks you deserve to spend the rest of your motoring days in a diesel.
 
My OCD wouldn't allow me to own such a car.

Seriously the uneven panel gaps would keep me awake at night.

I like stuff to line up correctly and not look like an airfix kit.

My £40k would go elsewhere, but I wouldn't say no to a test drive!
 
the point has been missed. anyone looking to drop 40k on one of these has a large collection of cars where audi S5s and BMW M3s dont even enter into the equation. the likely buyer would have a daily runner that makes the S5 look a little cack...
 
you could pick up a second hand M3 and mod the crap out of it for £40k

And it's a nans car with a big engine, a fugly bodykit and a zorst...
Like getting a nova and modding it, at the end of the day, even if its fast its still a nova.
 
Loving the "I'd rather have a BMW" comments when looking at a group B rally car. Funniest thing I've read all week.

How can you compare a modern day germanic boredom machine to a piece of motorsport history.

The Metro 6R4 was designed partly by Williams F1. I went to an open day at Williams and they had a white one in the museum.

A 6R4 is probably the cheapest of Group B cars to buy. Proper RS200s can fetch anything up to £100K, the amount of 205T16s available puts prices of 60K+. Lancia S4 or 037 and the original Audi Group Bs are pretty much priceless or over £200K if one crops up for sale.

Apart from the RS200 none of them can be accused of being pretty cars. People who buy Group B rally cars probably do buy modern BMWs and Audis but those cars are used to ferry the owners to the garages that are looking after the Group B cars.
 
I've been lucky enough to have been driven in Tony Ponds ex works 6R4 around a tight track. The V6 - later to be used in the Jaguar XJ200 - sits right behind your head, so loud in fact we had to wear headphones/microphones in order to hear each other.
The owner told me that it although it was in it's 'forest spec' it would do 0-100 in around 8 secs on the tarmac track - but it certainly felt faster. In fact on launch I couldn't see straight for a few seconds, that's how violent it was. My friends RS6 could never do that.

Oh, and for the 'car enthusiasts' who think it's a 'crusty metro' or would want a BMW instead..a big christmassy :rolleyes: to you.
 
Half the pleasure of owning a car like that would be (for me) the fact that it looks like it does. It does look like an abomination - but that's fine, it's all there for a purpose. The front "snowplough" is there for downforce at 150mph through the forest, the stupid wheel arches, the silly spoiler, crazy holes in the bodywork - all form over function.

Everyone would think it was a badly kevved up metro (the amount of self proclaimed petrolhead youngsters who aren't even aware of group B is staggering), and you could just get in and bomb off. Baaaarppp! That's half the appeal to me, other than owning a piece of 80s motorsport history for less that the cost of a track rod end on a modern F1 car would cost.
 
I always had a soft spot for the 6r4 when I was younger. I think it may have been because I saw more metro's on the roads than any audi's or RS200's. I felt some kind of connection with it.

It does look like a nans car chavved up to hell and back, but it goes like poop off a teflon shovel. For a young kid, the (naive) thought that you can easily make yer nans car blast around the welsh forests like the other supercars was an inspiration.

OK, so there was a lot more to it than a quick trip to halfords and bunging the engine in the boot, but it still felt somehow more attainable than the pretty specialist rs200, Lancia's and Audi's and whatever you watched on grandstand on a Saturday afternoon. (and then Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks would come on and the day would be complete :))
 
robbiemc said:
I've been lucky enough to have been driven in Tony Ponds ex works 6R4 around a tight track. The V6 - later to be used in the Jaguar XJ200 - sits right behind your head, so loud in fact we had to wear headphones/microphones in order to hear each other.
The owner told me that it although it was in it's 'forest spec' it would do 0-100 in around 8 secs on the tarmac track - but it certainly felt faster. In fact on launch I couldn't see straight for a few seconds, that's how violent it was. My friends RS6 could never do that.

Oh, and for the 'car enthusiasts' who think it's a 'crusty metro' or would want a BMW instead..a big christmassy :rolleyes: to you.
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You lucky sod!:eek::D
 
Liverpool-Lad said:
You lucky sod!:eek::D
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Thanks! It was at a meeting at Brooklands when they used to mock up a small track on the runway, my friend talked the guy who owns it into giving me a ride. As I'm 6'6" (and in a wheelchair) it was more than a little difficult to get into, but definitely worth the struggle.
Oh, the guy who owns it was just a regular guy and just drove a bog standard estate car everyday, definitely not a rich collector.
 
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