Max Power | W12 Lupo! NEW VIDEO ADDED

check the launch out - mental

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i need that car in my life !

 

He aint going to get grp 1 insurance on it now

 

He mite if he keeps his gob shut

Mental

 

Fast in a straingt line, but with all that weight over the front end, it'll handle like a pig.

 

the other engine in the rear out to balance things out.

 

Petar runs a car mag in Croatia and also own an amazing supercharged alfa gtv v6

 

u should seee the build pictures, i was following it on another forum, looks immense!

 

*yawn*

 

Have to ask yourself what's the point. It's not like it hasn't been done before i was well into golf's over 10 year's ago and there were several 4x4 twin vr6 car's around then.

 

This was done in 1986 it started with one manual box and one auto but the auto would kick down at the wrong time ,it was then changed to two manual boxes and a supercharger.

Posted by BRG on 28-Sep-01 17:36:

There was a twin engined VW Scirrocco rally car that was used in the north of England in the late 1980s or thereabouts. The driver was Kim Mather, who also I believe owned or at least drove some old F1 cars in club events in UK.

They took the front end of another Scirrocco (inner wings, suspension, subframe, engine and gearbox) and somehow welded it into the back of the other car. IIRC, it had a 1600cc front engien and a 2000cc rear one, or something ,like that , to give a better power distribution. Dunnio how they sort the gear change out, but the thingg worked pretty well. On club level tarmac rallies in NW England it was almost unbeatable for a few years, especially on events on the old Aintree circuit.

Eventually the RACMSA banned it (and all twin engine cars) for rallying because they were a loophole that got around the MSA's maximum engine capacity rules.
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W12 is a total lie from what I have just seen! It's 2 v6's!

 

Disappointed, I was looking to see how they'd managed to fit a W12 into a Lupo only to find a couple VR6's.
Not a bad effort though.

 

Exactly!

2 engines? Come on!

 

Twin engined cars aren't new are they. Good piece of work though. try zcars.org.uk for an interesting mini or two.

 

Didn't EVO drive a twin engined TT ( 2 Audi 1.8 Turbos ) at over 200mph on a German autobahn a few years ago?

As already been said, nothing new really.

Still mental though!