The Best BTCC Car of All Time....

[Daniel]

Nissan Primera, the ultimate exploitation of the Super Touring regulations, taking the shell of a rather bland road car and turning it into a formidable racing car.

Did you read what Tim Harvey wrote a while back in EVO?

One word springs to mind, starts with c, ends with t and also has e, a and h in it

[rwdvectra]

My fav of all time were the facelift vectra's. Fell inlove with these cars and thats all i've had since

[BTCC2]

My fav of all time were the facelift vectra's. Fell inlove with these cars and thats all i've had since

You forget just how good the super tourers looked dont you? Some of them looked stunnning.

[VkmSpouge]

For me it's the 406 in Esso Ultron livery. It wasn't crap as everyone seems to think, just very very very very very very very unlucky

OK I admit it was a crap car but the best looking touring car ever

The Peugeot 406 was a very strange car, looked great in BTCC livery but went crap. But in the hands of Laurant Aiello (I think) in the STW it won the championship beating Audis, Hondas, BMWs and Opels, none of which it could beat in the BTCC.

[mac853]

Best TC cars in different classes:

GroupA 1600cc - Honda Civic EG6
GroupA 2500cc - Nissan Skyline BNR32, Ford Sierra
ST - Audi A4, Nissan Primera MKIII, Honda Accord
SP - BMW320I, Honda Integra DC5R
S2000 - BMW320SI, Seat Leon TDI

[kmchow]

The Peugeot 406 was a very strange car, looked great in BTCC livery but went crap. But in the hands of Laurant Aiello (I think) in the STW it won the championship beating Audis, Hondas, BMWs and Opels, none of which it could beat in the BTCC.

Wasn't part of the STW 406's success was the engine? I recall reading Peugeot Sport France wouldn't let the BTCC team get access to the engine as they were afraid the secrets would get eventually leaked out since the BTCC team was subcontracted out.

[kmchow]

My top pic for the best car in the ST era was the Volvo 850 wagon. While it was a bit unreliable or unpredictable, the car looked totally mean. Boxy, but fast and intimidating looking!

[Eurotech]

I've got to say I still have a soft spot for the Volvo Estate. Imagine how the drivers must have felt being overtaken by that!

[Daniel]

Wasn't part of the STW 406's success was the engine? I recall reading Peugeot Sport France wouldn't let the BTCC team get access to the engine as they were afraid the secrets would get eventually leaked out since the BTCC team was subcontracted out.

IIRC back in the day Pipo were the engine builders for the the 306 maxi which shared a good deal of the engine with the 406, I've been told the engines were pretty much the same actually but who knows.

[AndyRAC]

For me it's the 406 in Esso Ultron livery. It wasn't crap as everyone seems to think, just very very very very very very very unlucky

OK I admit it was a crap car but the best looking touring car ever

It wasn't very good in the TOCA Touring Car games either.


While it will never happen, I'd like to see just one set of regs worldwide for Touring cars. The DTM, Aussie V8's wouldn't agree though.