nissan pulsar in wrc

gazgstar

gazgstar

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Been watching loads of old videos of group A pulsars in wrc and euro champonships and in every one I watch the cars look so quick and competitive. I just dont know why these cars weren't more successful in that period against escort cossie and celicas? What happened with the whole nissan project in rallying? Did they run out of money to keep it goin or where the cars just unreliable or what? Even now when you see the tony bardy car it looks and sounds every bit as quick as modern day wrc cars.
 
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MarkTurbo

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gazgstar said:
Even now when you see the tony bardy car it looks and sounds every bit as quick as modern day wrc cars.
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That's because it is ;-)

He won the North west stages again a couple weeks ago beating a lot of newer wrc cars. If Nissan had bothered to do some development on it, bin the top mount intercooler, and stick some decent tyres on things might have been different.
 
PobodY

PobodY

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I thought it had more to do with the state of the Japanese economy. Nissan simply decided that their money was better spent elsewhere when the car wasn't performing as expected; especially as they only entered the events they thought they could do well in. - It's not as though they don't have any history of developing cars for motorsports, or even entering factory rally cars; the Datsun 510 and the 240Z come immediately to mind.

It is definitely a shame that they didn't stick it out and develop the car a little more. Tony Bardy is a prime example; that's still basically the NME car they produced, but with a few little adjustments it's incredibly competitive. Those are much newer, and in some cases ex-WRC (there's at least two; a Fabia and a Focus), cars he's beating around the Blackpool course.
 
gazgstar

gazgstar

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Yeah I seen the clips of the stages at blackpool, that car is an animal:-D!! Definately a missed opportunity for nissan to win some major events in rallying. Will need to get to some rallys this year to see that bardy car in the flesh
 
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