Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 20:36:51 GMT From: "Jussi Ketola" <jussi.ketolanopsampam.eterra.fi> Subject: Re: Rally Saab
"Terje Johan Abrahamsen" <terjej_fjerndette_nopsamoot.com> wrote in message news:8n6f9usj26dcmij74qvh8ah1cm2qkehba8nopsamcom... > On 19 Mar 2002 20:02:26 GMT, davehinznopsamcop.net wrote: > > >Someone who looks an awful lot like Terje Johan Abrahamsen <terjej_fjerndette_nopsamoot.com> wrote: > >> I just rented Rally Sport Challenge for my Xbox. One of the cars was a > >> Saab 9-3 4x4 with 5-600 hp. Has Saab ever made such a car for rally? > >> Or did the gamemakers just make it up since Saab sponsored the game? > >> The other cars are real thought. At least as far as I know. > > > >Sounds like maybe the Pike's Peak car? I seem to recall it was a > >9-3 Viggen with an obscene amount of HP, sounds like you might have that. > >Is it blue? > > Here is a link I found: > http://www.womanmotorist.com/racing/features/bs-pikes-peak-preview-2k-02.sht ml I vaguelly remeber reading about the original version of that car. It was built from a NG900 and it had 800HP. They had to restric it to 600HP to be allowed to compete in rallycross. That was just the first version of that car it seems. WRC-rally drivers compete just for fun once a year in Canary Islands, on a rallycross track. They have all the WRC-cars there and as extras old B-group rally cars. This year they didn't have old B-group cars. They had atleast 2 of those 750hp 9-3's there to drive. Must have been quite different from a normal WRC car with 300bhp or so :-) JK