It's really just a coincidence, but my two favorite cars of all time are Fords: the GT40 and the RS200. Well, they're at least part Ford. Both have English roots and/or influence (Lola and Cosworth). This is a very good video of an awesome, heavily modified RS200 hill climb car. It's a proper three-pedal car , which is getting rarer and rarer and, judging by the tire smoke, there's no ABS either (I could be wrong there though). Badass machine, and aesthetically wicked.
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It sure does. This particular channel has the best content that I've so-far come across. The vehicle data in the montages makes it more than just a medley of clips, and the periodic integration of on-board keeps it even more interesting. The videos are also segmented by car, which makes it very easy to navigate. This video has some very cool cars/drivers...
The Opel Kadett, Hayabusa Fiat 500, Alfa 4C, Skoda Fabia, and both Fiat X1/9s are the highlights for me.
The Fiats are just bananas; glued to the road. The Skoda is super cool though, because of the on-board footage and the fact that the driver manipulates both a center-mounted (sequential) shift lever and the hand brake. It's counterintuitive to think that braking might help your speed, but he's visibly quicker around the hairpins than most other cars.
The on-board for the one Fiat looks like it's playing in fast-forward.
A true manual like that RS200 is rare. I think that's the coolest, but it's really a matter of different classes. Those sequential cars with paddle shift are faster, but I prefer the slower car with more driver involvement. No doubt the faster sequential car still has the same degree of skill and involvement; just in a different way: focusing on the road and not dying.
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