Top Gear Old Vid - Sti v5 type r against an Escort Cossie
 

I've never seen this vid before, i'm sure a lot of you will of though:
YouTube - Top Gear WRX vs Escort Cosworth

That car is for sale on PH.

Subaru : Top Gear Impreza Type R

Thanks for the video mate :-)

Old video mate but still cool.The Type R would have won if its wasn't being driven by VBH

Great vid but absolutely shocking driving skills by both of em, lol

soooo close to he stickers on my car:)

Cool vid that, remembered it when it started.

My dad bought this type r, then decided to sell it.We were working in a showroom in Cheadle Staffs at the time.He bought it from a computer literate guy down south i think.Very nice car that one too, don't know about the condition of it now though.

Nathan.

She didn't push it much

Pushed it wide quite alot tho lol

*Cough* What?

The car belonged from an old mate of mine from days of yore called Darren Soothill, he bought it new, got old skool Scoobysport Leda C suspension fitted, along with the Brembo fully floating brake kit and a full H&S decat...if the old Dynomite Scoobies page still existed I could link you to the dyno run when it cracked 308 brake without a remap...and lots of Octane booster...

Anyway, it was a borrowed when SIDC were asked for an Impreza to run against Mark Shead's Escort cossie (a former Ahmed Byoo car) running considerably more power 450+ brake IIRC. Pete Croney (he of Scoobysport fame) as then president of SIDC put them on to Darren. The filming wasn't for Top Gear but a Clarkson video called 'Clarkson at Full Throttle'

Daren sent me many texts through the day telling me what was going on, and sent a me a few pics as well:

http://images.fotopic.net/y5dobc.jpg

http://images.fotopic.net/y5doba.jpg

The funny thing is VBH had a broken toe that day and had to drive in open toed sandles...

http://images.fotopic.net/y5dobb.jpg

This is what she did to a brand new set of Bridgestone S02's :eek:

http://images.fotopic.net/y5dob8.jpg

The run against the Impreza came after a drag race between a group of tuned cosworths which Mark's car won, to go on and face the new kid on the block, by the lanky one driving it. On the day the reality was on the timed runs both cars posted identical times, then they drove each others cars, and posted identical times, there was bugger all in it...the Escort had the advantage ina straight line, the Impreza gaining through the corners...but as we all know, Clarkson can never loose :rolleyes:

Last time I saw the car with Darren it was having it's second engine and third gearbox, it had been on a lot of track days with him...we lost touch after he moved back oop North, last I heard he had a R34 Skyline...

Great pics and nice to have a bit of background on the vid too :D

Good story and pics, still got the original Full Throttle VHS somewhere

she dint do bad then to say broken toe and daft foot wear. Did i read that right cossie 450+bhp, and still nothing in it.

Here's the full piece: Full Throttle

Great write up and pics that Tim, thanks for sharing...:cool:

The Escort is currently owned by a friend of mine (he works with Mark @ MAD), and is running in the region of 500-550bhp

When Dean,s not banned that is..........:lol1: :lol1:

Was it that car that was pulled over for going rather quickly on the M1 on the way to the pod?

Think at the time it was 400bhp on standard brakes and suspension

Tim W

Nice when the real facts can be included rather than the usual rubbish about which cars are faster etc. Both great cars in their own right.

Great vid.

I forgot to mention that Darren told me that there was a professional driver on site for the day and it was he who posted the identical times in each car, not Clarkson and VBH, I believe the filming with them driving was somewhat 'stage managed' to show this on the video

Tim, the font of all knowledge ;) :p

Cheers Tim. Nice to have some behind the scenes/what really happened knowledge.

Lol, if you're going to get banned do it in style!!!

+1

FFS i was interested in that before i found out it has been ragged to within an inch of it's life :(

Awesome vid, seen it years ago but still rocks, nice to see a standardish type r show whats needed in a cossie (at least 400 bhp) to keep up.;)