9 best homologation specials ever

[@GoodwoodRR]

Which one would you like on your drive?

[@EvnRain]

CLK GTR without a shadow of doubt

[@eriksantoso1741]

205 t16 and 3.0 csl

[@KLUTCHdot58]

None please. I can't afford to tax and insure another vehicle. Plus I'm short on space now plus I have an Ignis sport already which is sort of one.

[@zeroforcemember]

The 205 for sure and the r390 is awesome

[@turboonz1229]

The car isn’t real released yet but I like the Toyota Gazoo Racing Super Sport

[@SS454LS6]

CLK-GTR remains one of my favorite cars of all time. Both the street car and the race car for that matter.

[@MDDeGrande1994]

*Street-legal car and track-only car Because they're *BOTH* race cars.

[@omarchin1379]

Street, race and flying car all in one

[@tremplearsen9938]

@@omarchin1379 the CLK GTR never flew. It was the CLR, an entirely different car

[@omarchin1379]

@@tremplearsen9938 my bad.

[@kristianharalambiev7685]

Mercedes are one of the real GOATs of racing

[@freejrs]

If only Mazda had had to make a 787B homologation car. 🧡💚🧡💚

[@paulrichardson9506]

Colours on hearts are a nice touch

[@olavofernandes7286]

There was the mazda rx7 fd3s barthurst r after the FD3S rx7 raced in the famous Australian race track and dominated its class

[@bennyb.1742]

They'd have made one car like Nissan and Toyota, then we could all dream and play it on Granturismo

[@brandonshaba2190]

One of my favourite cars, noise, looks and performance are a 10

[@eriksantoso1741]

@@olavofernandes7286 don't forget we got also mazda 323 GTR and gtx but maybe for jdm market

[@AtheistOrphan]

My favourite is the Lancia Delta S4 Stradale. Mind you that Panoz glimpsed briefly at the beginning is pretty wild.

[@christianf.5147]

Cool cars :) I miss the Toyota GT-One. I think the trunk was used there as fuel tank :D

[@Gois83]

More like the other way round. Where the racing car had the fuel tank, Toyota removed it and placed a cubby just for the inspectors to see it actually had a luggage compartment!

[@tommy.eklund]

​@@Gois83 They didn't replace it, the story is even crazier than that. Instead of replacing it, they tried to convince the officials that since the fuel tank was bigger than a standard size suitcase, and the fuel tank is always empty during inspections, that the empty fuel tank should be considered as storage space since it could, in theory, hold a standard size suitcase... ...And it worked!

[@Gois83]

I'd love to have seen the Lancias... 037 Stradale and Delta S4 were some if the all-time greatest and the latter has gone down on history as the car that ended Group B. Also the 190E 2.5-16 Evo, the Renault 5 Turbo and the Toyota GT-One would've been welcome!

[@gustavmeyrink_2.0]

Henri Toivonen tested the S4 on a track also used by F1. He would have qualified 8th for the F1 race that year!

[@Mauro-82]

@@gustavmeyrink_2.0 That's just a myth; it's impossible to compete with an F1 car that weighed much less, had much more power and, above all, much better downforce and cornering speed.

[@Lavi-Aemilia-Astori]

037！

[@sepg5084]

What ruined the homologation specials was the manufacturers are not obeying the 25 car requirement and the regulators seemingly not enforcing them. If those were actually enforced then we'd have some epic examples of those road cars today.

[@SockyNoob]

Agreed

[@gustavmeyrink_2.0]

Lancia actually built the required 500 of the Stratos but nobody bought the road legal version. They eventually sold them off at knock down prices just to get rid of them. Jaguar cheated homologation for the E type by saying that the racing Lightweight was the base model and all steel-bodied road cars were specials.

[@dense_and_dull]

​@@gustavmeyrink_2.0What a joke from Jaguar!

[@lodgie555]

homologation specials are what keep race cars relevant to us plebs who want a cool fast car. i think there should be more especially in touring cars atm.

[@itsjustmemildoze]

YES! I love these special production videos youve been doing. KEEP EM COMING!

[@rantingdesigner9210]

The voice on this sounds like its for a children's story and for some reason I love it

[@TheAmishSasquatch]

The Dauer 962 and the early 993 GT1 "test car" are probably my favorite cars EVER built!!! Simply amazing!!!!

[@garchompy_1561]

the GR yaris wont be the last, with LMH just getting going. toyota will make some sort of hypercar at the very least, and use that as the base of the race car. ford will likely do the same when they join maybe?

[@KepleroGT]

Toyota was planning on producing the GR Super Sport but a prototype caught fire during tests at Fuji so they just discontinued it

[@papa_pt]

does LMH even need homologation? Mercedes is coming out with that hypercar w/ a detuned F1 engine+system

[@boletus60]

@@papa_pt hypercar class can either be competition-spec versions of existing hypercars or specially designed prototypes

[@Spermwhales93]

@@papa_pt Homologation isn't required for LMH, but the rules do allow for it through the whole 'competition-spec versions of existing hypercars' thing. The Aston Martin Valkyrie was originally supposed to be for LMH but Aston Martin pulled out of all forms of sports car racing as a manufacturer due to wanting to spend money on the F1 programme instead. If the Valkyrie was ever to make it into LMH, it would have to be because a privateer team wants to buy customer versions of the car for WEC/IMSA.

[@3ormorecharactersmaybe5]

@@Spermwhales93 Also, Mclaren Senna

[@Thors_Garage]

Best part about the Nissan story is that it doesn't end here with design rights to the R390 engine eventually being bought by McLaren and now being the basis for almost every car since the MP4-12C fax machine (Clarkson)

[@holeshotshane6344]

That Mercedes CLK was the first car I ever took above 200mph in a racing simulator as a kid

[@djxycloneofficial899]

Loved this list. Homologation specials are some of my all time favorite vehicles. The Nissan R390 is still one of the most beautiful cars ever made in my opinion, as is the CLK-GTR. I feel like some honorable mentions worth bringing up would be the Mercedes 190 Evo, Lancia 037 and Stratos, Masarati MC-12, Toyota GT-ONE, Panoz Esperante, TVR Cerbera Speed 12 and Nissan Skyline GT-R LM.

[@papa_pt]

The T16 is the most batshit crazy car in dirt rally.. insanely short wheelbase with a huge turbo 😂

[@joeogle7729]

Nearly 3 bar of boost and handling like an absolute psychopath. I love it.

[@tyomikshkolnik7988]

CLK and E30 are by far some of my favorite and most beautiful cars.

[@joeogle7729]

I think the RS200 is one of the best looking fords ever made

[@martinandreas6486]

Is.

[@ajwasp3642]

Not one Lancia? The S4 is the ultimate.

[@gustavmeyrink_2.0]

An unforgivable omission.

[@sta12500]

No story about how Lancia only built half of the cars they were supposed to. Showed the cars they had (1/2) took the inspectors to a long Italian lunch, moved the existing cars to the other side of the factory and claimed to have built the total amount.

[@richardboots6251]

The RS500 is a legendary car, and I’m lucky enough to have a Moonstone one in my garage. 😍

[@jezzter4293]

Best colour mate :-) I worked for Tickford when the RS500's came through, awesome car :-) Can you send a pic?

[@richardboots6251]

@@jezzter4293 have you any information please mate? If you send your email I’ll send some pics for you. 🙂

[@richardboots6251]

@@jezzter4293 send me your email and I will. 🙂

[@firstnamesecondname5341]

I remember an engineer from Ford saying the full monty RS 200 650bhp model had an engine life at full chat of 18 minutes 😬

[@JackBandicootsBunker]

Enough for the Rallycross stages it later went to compete in after the Group B ban.

[@tuzonthume]

The Plymouth Superbird/Dodge Daytona Charger is cool. Also the 57 Chevy Fuelie coupe. This American Iron was in production and have proven to be an amazing investment. Somewhat dissimilar to a euro kit car handcrafted in a garage. I've been told that the Chevy came with a fire extinguisher.

[@нико-р2х]

My favorite homologation car is the 993 gt2 911, also in my opinion the most beautiful 911 ever made.

[@DonatProdanSimRacing]

Nice, 962 and Sierra, two of my favorites make up the top 2.

[@kamekasin6144]

Surprised the M3 GTR didn't make the list.

[@Hammerhead547]

My favorite homologation specials are the 1987/88 Chevy Monte Carlo/Pontiac Grand Am Aerobacks. At the time GM was having a very hard time besting ford's ultra dominant thunderbird in Nascar. First they tried using engines meant for drag racing to match the performance of the Ford V8 that was almost certainly putting out 600+ horsepower in practice and qualifying trim but that failed so they hit upon the idea of improving the areo of their cars. They did this by putting in a large curved rear window that aided airflow over the rear wing, but Nascar said "no no no, you must build and sell 2000 of each car to qualify to race it" so they did. It didn't work but there's 4000 of them out in the wilds.

[@HECKproductions]

2:33 absolutely sick 3 wheel cornering

[@TherealLorinser]

CLK GTR and that 962 are my favorites very iconic cars.

[@schizo7007]

I could listen to this mans talk all day.. Nice video :)

[@TumzDK]

My favourite is without any doubt the Honda VFR750R, commonly known as the Honda RC30 Did you see what I did there?? That’s right, rule bending, no one said it had to be a car😉

[@ljphoenix4341]

I have a Hotwheels version of the Nissan R390, and of the Ford Sierra Cosworth, so it was interesting learning a bit more about them, and why they look the way they do. A great video!

[@Argent_99]

The Godfather of all modern homologation specials (IMO) was the Porsche 917. The FIA had tweaked the group 6 rules to effectively curb the viability of limited production number prototypes (read: the Ford GT40 Mk. IV) in order return to something more akin to what they had in the early ‘60s - low-number production cars which were equal parts road and race car (think the Ferrari GT cars of that era.) Porsche built 25 copies of an absolute racing prototype the likes of which no one had seen before and happily lined them all up for a photo op for the incredulous FIA inspectors. One was even converted to road legal use and it ushered in a decade where Porsche worked the FIA like a boxer would a speed bag.

[@griffinfornell]

The headlights on the Strassenversion came from the 996 not the 993. While the front end and much of the interior was indeed from the 993, most if not all of the road cars got the fried egg style headlights which would appear on the 996

[@legolite45]

Dodge Daytona/Plymouth Superbird

[@t.a.ackerman4098]

The orginal Z28 Camaro.

[@kennyforgot83]

Favourite is the tvr speed 12 , although 3 were made it never got to race as changes to the gt1 class regs happen just at the same time. Shame it was a beast of a car.

[@RBWill1]

Being picky but the 22B (0.40 in) was not a homologation model. It looked more like the competition car than any other but was built as an anniversary celebration for Subaru.

[@PedzRR]

THANK YOU. This was really bugging me, hard to believe Goodwood managed to mess this up.

[@Tom_Hadler]

Personally think you should've shown the Porsche 911 GT1-98 version as that was the version that won Le Mans in 1998, & the race car in this video. In my opinion the prettiest Porsche ever. OK 956B in Rothmans & 917K in Gulf look pretty tasty but that '98 GT1 is so sensual & curvy, & beautifully proportioned

[@GoodwoodRR]

We're talking about road cars here though, and the GT1-98 at that point had no road relative version.

[@Tom_Hadler]

@@GoodwoodRR Oh right. Is that correct? The GT1 category was technically a GT category rather than prototype I thought. They did make a homologation version, or certainly at least one road version. I've seen one myself at Goodwood! Beautiful thing too. BB-GT 198 is the registration. Dream car! Toyota made their GT-1, & Mercedes made their CLK-GTR as street versions. I assumed they needed them for homologation.

[@ThePontiacgto65]

When I see the picture of the audi quattro s1 I can hear in my mind his 5 cylinders

[@chaoringmeister]

It’s interesting to see the R390 here but not the TS020. Toyota argued to the ACO that the fuel tank was “luggage space”, that one always made me chuckle.

[@namestnikoff]

And of course CLK LM was showing when narrator talked about CLK GTR. At least the flying accident didn't came up 🤣

[@evanwilliams3645]

2 flying accidents. Quali had one flying as well

[@AdamTheMan1993]

That was the CLR LMP that had the flying accident not the CLK GTR

[@namestnikoff]

@@AdamTheMan1993 I know man, I never said otherwise.

[@namestnikoff]

@@evanwilliams3645 Yes, with completely different car. But CLK GTR and CLK LM are different cars aswell.

[@РоманСмирнов-ц2н]

I can also remember BMW M3 E46 GTR. Extremely rare and super iconic.

[@johnrumpf6014]

I've driven a homologation Audi Quattro sport. Never forget it. 85 green full Kevlar body.

[@dimakor5914]

Porsche 962 is absolutely crazy car in simulators, it can pass turns at unbelievable speed. It still holds Nurburgring record 6:11, though race cars most likely clocked turbos closer to 1000 hp unlike Dauer ones.

[@gtinjected]

Any of the Peter Brock, Walkingshaw or HSV Holden Commodores, maybe even the Celica GT4, RS Legacy and WRX. Definitely the Delta Integrale belongs on the list

[@steelcityspeedshopj.r6942]

Great great video! Man i wish i could have one of those 5 Mercedes. Anyhow. My favorite homologation vehicle of all time is in fact not a Car at all. Its a Motorcycle. And that 🏍 is The Yamaha R7. THE REAL R7 . Notto be mistaken with the tiny little 2022 MT-07 with Fairings R7. But the true R7 is the holy grail in my book of impossible.

[@josegadon203]

Porsche grindset: *bend the rules, win, quit racing*

[@TeslaHaxz]

Surprised to see the pajeri here! I was hoping it would be here but want holding my breath, as it seemed so different from all the others. Was pleasantly Surprised!

[@ashleydaniels1132]

i absolutely loved the 190E 2.5.16 EVO2!!!! the "Batmobile"......that car did it for me.

[@bzilla-d4i]

For homologation purposes the South Africa had a Sierra XR8...running a 5.0 V8...to battle the Audi Quattro and Mazda RX7 in our local championship... extremely rare cars

[@connori2391]

Lancia delta integrale evo 2 is one of the greatest cars ever built and specifically so it could go rallying

[@1970vlad]

The 80's were the Golden era of motor racing with the turbo madness !! The GroupB rally were close to 550hp at the end, F1 had 1450hp and Group C in Le Mans reached 400kmh. With safety close to 0.......

[@aintnopity]

The plate at 5:52 is from my hometown. Havent seen the car yet, tho ...

[@ciddax754]

Renault 5 Turbo. They build a lot of them and were the perfect sleeper. A friend bought one for his wife as a small shopping cart. He just wanted the best R5 money could buy and got what he asked for. His wive was not happy, as that thing had no luggage space and simply taking his car.

[@gsx1340b]

Mercedes don‘t have to bend the rule, they made the rule 🕶 (in DTM) greets from south-western germany near hockenheim

[@kirthooper4625]

CLK GTR still the coolest looking race race ever for me. Love the chin on that thing

[@billmcdonald4335]

The Superbird/Roadrunner.

[@RACECAR]

One thing that wasn't mentioned about the CLK GTR in this video: Mercedes had a very short time to develop the car (128 days to be exact) in 1996. One reeeaaally cheeky thing they (along with AMG) did in speeding this up was by taking a Mclaren F1 GTR and then both grafting on their own bodywork (Which wasn't quite finalized yet) as well as swapping out the BMW V12 with their own V12 while still designing the chassis. That's an entirely different level of being cheeky with the rules.

[@karelpgbr]

Man I hate that the Toyota GR Yaris costs 40000 in Holland, purely because of the emissions taxes… Edit: The Nissan R390 is my favourite car ever, I love it! Edit 2: The craziest thing for me is that the Mercedes CLK-GTR still looks very modern, so does the 911 GT1, though you do recognise the headlights, also, the Dauer is just, _chef’s kiss_ .

[@moparman2nd]

Another snub for the Dodge Charger Daytona. You could probably call the Dodge Dart A990 one as well.

[@t.a.ackerman4098]

Z28 Camaro, Shelby Cobra ect.

[@paulconnelly9206]

6r4……its all I will say great presentation thanks..

[@ca9968]

The South African Opel Kadett GSi Superboss...that was a beast of a car!

[@paullinfoot6017]

The rs500 has to be the top of them all , More wins per races entered than any other race car ever built ,

[@bongosock]

Lancia Stratos - what an amazing and unique car!

[@nachardo4549]

4:38 :the nissan r390 does not one a single unit. there were 2. the best known is the blue one and the other is the red one (not much is known) which was used for the crash test and was destroyed. also appeared in the video game gran turismo 2

[@isaacmelgar9647]

The 205 T16 is simply magnifique

[@tommy.eklund]

Wow, I had never heard about the CLK GTR Roadster and SuperSport variants before.. Might be because video games always only featured the "regular" one.

[@miamimo70]

The Dauer 962 is my dream car

[@luisfilipemachado17]

Lancia Delta Integralle is the best for me. Dominated the Rally for years

[@s2korpionic]

Love seeing the Pajero Evo gets a mention.

[@MrCocky73]

Any info on the audio sport 002 that was built for groub S rally?

[@jezzter4293]

Wow, I was involved with 3 of these amazing cars :-) Feeling old!

[@amyhergest]

So nice to see a video that isn't voiced by artificial stupidity. Actually, I was hobbling along the King's Road in London when this brute of a thing passed me. It looked like it had just come from competing at Le Mans, and I thought I saw the Aston Martin wings at the back, but it sounded like a chorus of a thousand angry demons x

[@AtheistOrphan]

2:36 - Talks about Escort MK3, shows a MK2.

[@SkunkworksProps]

I have actually seen a 911 GT1, at a track day at Silverstone. I didn't realise there were only 2 street versions, I thought there were more!

[@Minoltalphafan]

The Strassenversion GT1 did not have 883 derived headlights, those are found on the 986/996.

[@lenl270]

I would have made this a top 10 list and added Toyota GT1. Didn’t win Le Mans but damn what a great looking car. Bonus, you could have shown footage of it racing the flying AMG-Mercedes CLR, another phenomenally beautiful “homologated” car/aircraft?

[@arditoabdillah6560]

You forgot to mention 400 (200 ini actual homologated-built) LANCIA 037 as prerequisite to enter WRC 1983 season, which staggeringly won constructors champion ahead of arch rival Audi in that season.

[@jannadrielcervo7753]

My favourite the McLaren F1 LM Technically the Toyota Yaris GR4 isn't the last, the Porsche 911 GT3/GT3 RS is still in production and it is indeed a homolagation of the GT3 class. Honorable mentions: Ferrari 250 GTO Ferrari 288 GTO Porsche 911 GT3 RS Ford Mustang Boss 302 (1969) Ford GT40 Ford GT (2016) Ford F-150 SVT Raptor (2009) Ford Gran Torino Talladega Ford Escort RS Cosworth Bowler Wildcat Dodge Charger Daytona Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI TME Toyota Celica GT4 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Mercedes-Benz W201 190E 2.5-16 Evolution

[@pughoneycutt1986]

Let's see top 9 dodge charger 500,dodge Daytona, Plymouth superbird, Ford Talladega, mercury spoiler, shelby mustang 350 gt, shelby cobra, Chevrolet black widow, Pontiac super duty

[@gankmarvin]

There was a Koeinig C62 based on the 962 as well.

[@cinemahumano]

Best video I have ever seen, thanks

[@dougkennedy4906]

Plymouth Super Bird and Dodge Daytona

[@homemademonkey8662]

I own the pajero 1999nl blister guard the model just below the evo such a awesome 4x4 and on road car plenty of power too

[@pentilex4338]

Makes me excited for what we'll see with LmH

[@InspirationSessions]

Nice vid but would have loved to see Sport quattro and Delta S4 included too

[@h-j.k.8971]

Great stuff.

[@nicksothep8472]

Damn! Each entry made me go "woooh"!

[@kaedeschulz5422]

What about the Toyota GT ONE? Only one was ever made. I think it sits here in germany's Toyota Racing "plant". JP performance showed it in one of his visits there. Or the E46 M3 GTR and other road legal GTR cars? Still an amazing list!

[@kidShibuya]

My favourite homologation special is Sega GT ;)

[@drewp.weiner2473]

How do you leave the Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale of this list?!

[@ClassicRockRadioEU]

The racing car the 33 Stradale was derived from ran in the sports prototype class so dodged the need to homologate and to produce cars for sale - its the other way round from the way homologation theoretically works where you base the racing car on the road car instead Alfa produced a few road cars to sell based on the racing car.

[@tjones002]

1965 BMW 1800TI/SA, the grandfather of all BMW saloon racing cars.

[@assassinkingautisticdrivin9370]

You missed the Jaguar XRJ-15, what a stunning car, and the original TVR Speed-12

[@Rypsolisti]

I really like the Lancia Delta S4 Stradale, though it had much less bhp than the Group B version.

[@michaelsummerell8618]

Forgive my ignorance regarding the homologation regs, but does the McLaren F1 not count as a homologation car, as they built it for the road first, then made a race car from that...??

[@VermorX]

ngl i love the CLK since nfs hot pursuit 2 and it will be always the best car i know

[@john1703]

In reverse was the Jaguar D Type/XKSS. Ask Steve McQueen about his Green Rat.

[@jimsvideos7201]

English is a funny language, and the double entrendre (sorry) about the car being a _ground-up_ racecar is a prime example of that.

[@steadyrockscotland]

The two 993-look 911 GT1s were prototypes, not the original Strassenversion production cars. The actual Strassenversion production cars had the 996-look. Then there was the final GT1-98.

[@ryanb9749]

It's sad that all of these cars are old. We need modern homologation specials.

[@fearinwaves]

Dr Linda Klimesova; “My favourite car; it must be a Ferrari” 🐎