One important thing these Kit Cars emerge in 90s was because of the development of Supertouring 2L racing cars, Peugeot and Renault both used their Supertouring engines on Kit Car as well.

Can I just say that these cars looks adorable

Group B required 200 cars, not 20

YES I love kit cars. Actually we still have Kit Car rally races here in Portugal.

I was not knowing anything about F2 rally cars. Lighter is faster. I play Dirt Rally on play station. The chasis tuning there is very realistic! The spanish tarseal roads in that game are fun. The Citroen C4 !

Love playing these on EA WRC.

AH Balestre...That guy was an abject sh!tstain PoS...A lot of unnecessary, and stupid, garbage, happened under his watch. Like not stopping an event that went completely off the rails and caused a 1955 Le Mans type of event to have occurred.

Bring back the old rally car

There's a comfort and elegance rally? Shoot, someone call james may, i found him a motorsport

After watching all of this I am seriously bummed that I've been an F1 fan all this time. I EVEN HAVE A RACE IN MY COUNTRY GOD DAMNIT! I could have been there for some of this stuff man

suzuki's ??

Maxi Peugeot

Group B from 1982 to 1986. This era of rallying was by far the best. Along with the Colin McRae era. :)

Excellent video! Thank you for all the information!

7:45 you mean 9 points?

7:41 so you skip straight over the 222d ? 🤔

This series is incredible. Thank you for all your research. ❤

Kitcars were allowed because group B was abolished. It allowed teams to use space frames and standard shell for half the cost of a rally car.

What made me fall in love with the old frenchies❤

It's worth mentioning, the 2017 Fiesta did had a good start, but the 2011 car wasn't quite the dud it's portrayed as here. The 2011 Fiesta RS WRC literally swept the podium at it's first ever event and had 19 podiums that year. It's biggest issue was the 2 guys named Sebastien were in a Citroen.

306 Maxi 😍😍😍

The move by the two BMWs right before the crashing started is in my opinion, one of the, if not the best example of on track teamwork in Motorsport

7:47, check your math Sir, SEAT beat Renault by 9 points not 7.

Rip Murray, half the races you commentated wouldn't have been half as entertaining without you

Jackoh when are you gonna the third episode for the fictional car company?

rally died here for me tbh

The best era for motorsport

I think this is probably The Most iconic BTCC clip of all time

90s touring cars were such well balanced and beautiful cars

Who was at fault for the collision?

S1 for me. Wouldn't care less if I was beaten from the lights by a Ford Focus 1.6

pretty nice vid bro

My Mum had an Allegro in the early 1980's, my earliest memory of it is going on a motorway then watchiong our wheel go past us! It was an awful car, then we got a Princess and it was amazing, a reliable tank. Funnily enough in the late 1990's Mum had an old Maestro too, clearly an Austin fan, not the Allegro though! 😄 It was a pale primrose one but will forever be mustard yellow for me. 😂

Ayrton IS the GOAT.

The 306 Maxi with the iconic wide front track and huge arches. Chef's kiss.

the name pronunciations are quite painful ngl

just found your channel and im on a rally kick atm, i know what im going to be binging all day at work haha

Excellent video. Very well researched.

Amazing video! Because I followed closely, I am familiar with the history. I also am originally from Madeira, where I had the opportunity of seeing a great many 306 Maxi, the Megane Maxi and one time the incredible Xsara Kit-Car (an unfortunate issue with the gearbox on the first stage stopped it from winning the event) but these cars were phenomenal to watch on tarmac driven by the likes of Adruzilo Lopes (Peugeot Silver Team Portugal), José Carlos Macedo (Megane Maxi) or the great Panizzi who had to call it quits due to an extremely unfortunate accident with another Peugeot that year. After being banned from the WRC, these cars were the bread and butter to our Regional Championship, us having at one point almost every model running, including a rare and beautiful Astra Kit-Car, Golf IV Kit-Car (had an amazing low rev growl) and what was probably the best 306 Maxi in the world at the time, with an equally incredible red and black livery, driven by local Vitor Sá, with what was dubbed an Evo 9 engine built by Enjolras in Spain rumored to put out around 330 bhp and revving upwards of 11,000 RPM. An all tarmac championship y'all can imagine how competitive and fun things got and how much it fed the passion of the locals for Rallying. To this day, the Rally Vinho Madeira (which was until recently a coefficient 20 in the European Rally Championship, and twice WRC candidate) is the largest sporting event on the island. It's only one follower, but you've won a dedicated one here! Thank you for the memories!

My favourite class of rally cars to drive in games!

so whats so speacial about the fulvia?? (procedes to show a damn cool pic of one) RALLY!!!!!

what is frame rate

So in other words French manufacturars ruined the Kit Car class with their shitty tarmac oriented cars.

the 306 maxi was one of the most beautiful kit cars ever made

What is the music during 4:45???

I am more of an F1 fan, but I know the mighty 80ies cars from my youth (and from various games) - what an excellent video, great work!!!

I love your videos. Thank you so much for sharing your passion this way. It makes me more interested in the stories behind these cool cars.

With the F2 spec being so open-ended, is there more info about how manufacturers modded their kit cars? Other than the wheel base being widened, what kinds of tricks became common between manufacturers over time? In terms of driving technique, how the heck did F2 drivers perform so well WITHOUT TURBO??

Is there any documentation of the effect of f2 on 1990s road car culture? What kinds of modifications were people doing? It looks like f2 augmentations would have been more attainable to enthusiasts.

That golf gti kitcar is a wiggly little beast. What's the story behind it and vw in general?