Looking for a car featured on top gear australia. Help pls

arekgreenman888 · 14 May 2013 at 22:54

Hi,

there was a very special race car featured on one of the episodes on top gear Australia. It was racing from one point to another in one of the episodes, and it got stuck and overheated on the intersection. Does anyone remember what cart hat was and what episode it was featured in.

Ta

ARek

RedMogg · 15 May 2013 at 04:35

Ford Orion

davido_labido · 15 May 2013 at 04:37

RedMogg said:
Ford Orion

SHEDDER1uk · 15 May 2013 at 05:11

Thought it was the ford throwa.

Flibster · 15 May 2013 at 11:52

Wasn't it the Ford Falcon V8 Supercar racing car driven across Sydney?

RedMogg · 15 May 2013 at 12:16

No idea, not seen the episode...
I could have answered "Cauliflower Cheese" and the Op would still be a none the wiser...

Fr0dders · 15 May 2013 at 12:33

Flibster said:
Wasn't it the Ford Falcon V8 Supercar racing car driven across Sydney?

Correct. here's the feature:

This is also a pretty fun comparison.

The V8 supercar series is effectively the australian domestic touring cars series, an ATCC if you like.... but with V8s lol.

Berger · 15 May 2013 at 12:39

Iirc the V8 super cars are no more than a space frame chassis with a body on top and bear no much resemblance to the road cars.

Scougar · 15 May 2013 at 12:40

Going from wiki: 620–650 bhp. Nice.

Fr0dders · 15 May 2013 at 12:40

Berger said:
Iirc the V8 super cars are no more than a space frame chassis with a body on top and bear no much resemblance to the road cars.

Scougar said:
Going from wiki: 620–650 bhp. Nice.

Yup, similar deal to NASCAR really. They are made to look like the road car, but underneath bare no resemblance at all. The closest thing you will get to a road going version is the GT-P from FPV - Ford performance vehicles. They are to ford Australia what AMG are to Mercedes in a way.

The fastest "Ford Falcon" (as opposed to an FPV) is the XR6 which only has a 6 cylinder engine:

http://www.ford.com.au/cars/new-falcon/models/xr6

Thats what they are trying to sell by having their space framed racer look like it

Berger · 15 May 2013 at 12:50

They still offer a turbocharged inline 6, but no more V8 in their model range.

It's all about the "Eco boost" and they have a crap advert to go with it.

Yaayuh! · 15 May 2013 at 12:56

Fr0dders said:
Correct. here's the feature:

The V8 supercar series is effectively the australian domestic touring cars series, an ATCC if you like.... but with V8s lol.

Casey Stoner and David Coulthard :eek:

GravyMonster · 15 May 2013 at 13:06

Aussie V8 Supercars is awesome. It's on MotorsTV quite often - Sky 447.

Not a very green car though Arek, it'll do about 4mpg.

Fr0dders · 15 May 2013 at 13:12

Berger said:
Iirc the V8 super cars are no more than a space frame chassis with a body on top and bear no much resemblance to the road cars.

Berger said:
They still offer a turbocharged inline 6, but no more V8 in their model range.

It's all about the "Eco boost" and they have a crap advert to go with it.

thats why you want the FPV GT-P that has a turbo V8 in it with 500 hp

arekgreenman888 · 15 May 2013 at 23:05

tHANKS guys that was what i was looking. Amazing car that Ford Falcon V8 Supercar racing car driven across Sydney. Blesses Arek

d_brennen · 15 May 2013 at 23:09

Not very green though, is it?

jon.bda · 15 May 2013 at 23:34

Rossi~ said:
Casey Stoner

Stacey doesn't drive a V8 Supercar iirc?

Janesy B · 15 May 2013 at 23:40

Yaayuh! · 16 May 2013 at 08:12

jon.bda said:
Stacey doesn't drive a V8 Supercar iirc?

It's what he did outside Moto GP and he also quit Moto GP to do just that... lol