Prodrive Mini WRC

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Originally Posted by Juha_Koo

Btw. has anyone noted how Prodrive has desinged the gear lever..? It's like a paddle shifter even though it's really a sequential "stick". Looks kinda unconventional atleast for me because there's a big resistance to push/pull the stick and you can't get a natural grip with your hand from it because it's like a paddle. I'm guessing they'll change that.

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Any photos?

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Originally Posted by manta400

what about Paul Nagle is he with the team? doesnt look like him in passenger seat

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Far as I know Paul is part of the package for 2011.
Ref the pictures it does indeed not look like Paul but I guess there's little need for him as it's basically just a systems check before travelling to Sardinia although I know he doesn't attend all the test sessions held in Europe.

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Originally Posted by urabus-denoS2000

Extremely ugly in my opinion , looks like a London taxi cab :D

But looks don't win rallies , so it isn't important ;)

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Well, I like the look of the car. It is the only car of the three WRC-s that has its specific character. The others are just good looking rally cars. The bigger street version looks strange indeed but the small Mini looks just so great! That is why they want this car to be called Mini WRC as well ;-)

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Originally Posted by OldF

Two exhaust pipes, like in the standard version.

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two exhaust pipes, sized like my garden hose (1/2") :p :p

i dont like those 2 pipes...it always looks like some showoff-tuning stuff.

Lets see photos of what you are talking about ;)

Prodrive website has only the press info on the MINI WRC. Nothing else has been added yet.

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Originally Posted by OldF

Two exhaust pipes, like in the standard version.

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Yes but it's very rare to see two exhausts on rally or race cars.

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Originally Posted by Mirek

Yes but it's very rare to see two exhausts on rally or race cars.

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Well, at least in Rally Cars! Touring Cars and GT Cars use two exhaust pipes!!

Sorry for the offtopic :P

normally 2 exhaust´s only make any sense if you have got a V engine. on a nowadays rallyecar it´s only useless weight in my opinion. and at all other cars with less then at last 6 cylinders its just wannabe-stuff...

rallyecars that had 2 pipes usually were V engines, like stratos or some porsche´s etc. also the mg metro. only car with 4 cylinders and 2 exhaustpipes that comes to my mind is the delta s4. for what reasons i dont really know. i make a guess: maybe something with the turbo and compressor charged engine, it looks like some kind of bybass: http://www.thhe.dk/biler/Lancia_Delta_S4-Xray_1024.jpg

anyhow, imo 2 pipes is just ugly whether its necessary or not.

btw: on the 2008 subaru show car at iaa in frankfurt, the car also had 2 exhausts. while the final rallyeversion only had one. mabye prodrive just likes to show off a little ;)

in δS4 the one pipe is from external gate.
mg metro was with a v6 shape engine.