AJI wrote: ↑07 Feb 2018, 10:17
carisi2k wrote: ↑07 Feb 2018, 04:32
GT3 cars are not in anyway shape or form a modified street car like group a. They are carbon fibre racing chassis with panels over the top to make them look like a normal road car. In that regards a v8 supercar has more in common with a street car then GT3 cars do.
Oh man, I didn't want to start a whole thing here, but the fact that you or I can buy a GT3 car and go racing is more my point about comparison of the traditional, let's say 'Tooheys 1000', to the current supercars series.
Supercars is a spec series. They all have the same chassis, they all run the same transaxle (even though none of those cars run that configuration for their road going counterpart), they all have a facsimile of the Holden or Ford or Nissan bodies, (but they are absolutely not the bodies produced by the manufacturer) and every single engine, no matter the brand, is BoP'd to within a few HP of each other in the entire operating range of the engine.
Supercars is basically the Aussie version of nascar with a pinch more reality.
I don't know what you are on but in what universe can people afford to buy a GT3 car. The GT3 cars made by manufacturers are special purpose race cars built to be street legal and in no way or form are anywhere near like a basic car that normal people could buy for $30,000 Australian dollars. They are often much different in spec to the normal production versions most people can buy even though those are truly ridiculously expensive as well.
On Porsche's website the cost of a GT3 is $353,644. If people have that much spare money in Sydney it would go towards buying a house which doesn't deflate in value the minute you open the door. Neither the R8 GT3, amg gt3 or the bmw m4 gt3 are available on the Australian websites with any sort of pricing.
The Mclaren 650s has been substituted for the 720s and there is also no gt3 pricing available in Australia. Same goes for the 488 gt3. So when you say buy I actually can't buy one In Australia (even if I could afford it) aside from the Porsche at $350k. All GT3 cars from these manufacturers are left hand drive in any case and not legal for the road in Australia.
The V8 supercar may not be the same as the production car but they cost the same or less then the basic retail porsche 911 gt3. They may be a spec series but the drivers put on great racing and so does most of the circuits in Australia. GT3 racing is a rich boys racing club and not at all relevant to the car you can buy in the shop or in Australia can't buy in the shop.