GTP Cool Wall: 1991 Mazda 787B

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1991 Mazda 787B

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Sub-Zero, I'm not one to vote all race cars seriously uncool, even if I totally understand why people do.
 
I've never seen it race in person, so I can neither confirm nor deny whether it is a true race car, or whether existing video of it in action is doctored footage prepared for the Illuminati by a young Michael Bay while he was supposedly studying at Film School.

Sub-zero, because it's orange and green and looks kind of pretty.
 
I don't like rotaries, but this thing actually sounds good. Cool!
 
Why is this even up for polling...

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niky
I've never seen it race in person, so I can neither confirm nor deny whether it is a true race car, or whether existing video of it in action is doctored footage prepared for the Illuminati by a young Michael Bay while he was supposedly studying at Film School.

Sub-zero, because it's orange and green and looks kind of pretty.
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It is OK to lie to yourself for this car. If Famine wasn't a robot, he'd have, too.
 
Meh.

I would've given it cool, but green and orange is uncool.

Seriously, it annoys me when people paint RX-8s and Miatas in 787 colors.
 
Custom878
Seriously, it annoys me when people paint RX-8s and Miatas in 787 colors.
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Because putting a livery from one car to another is so boring. How do you explain the Gulf stripe, Martini stripes, generic Red Bull, and Rosso Corsa?
 
Custom878
Seriously, it annoys me when people paint RX-8s and Miatas in 787 colors.
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What, even when it's Mazda themselves?

24 MX-5s - the Mazda MX-5 Le Mans - were painted in the 787B scheme to celebrate the victory. 20 were sold like that, the other four were repainted, two black, one orange and one navy blue. Based on the 1.6 BBR Turbo too, so it was a pretty sprightly thing.
 
The Gulf stripe is played out.
Martini looks weird on anything that isn't a Porsche or Lancia.
Red Bull doesn't need an explanation.
Rosso Corsa is a color.
The 787 livery is played out on Mazdas.
 
Custom878
The Gulf stripe is played out.
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A classic livery like that won't go out of style anytime soon. Hell, I have a Hot Wheels car with it.

Martini looks weird on anything that isn't a Porsche or Lancia.
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Those stripes turned the Williams FW36 from an ugly duckling to a beautiful swan. I can even overlook it's Schlong-nose.

Red Bull doesn't need an explanation.
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The colors look good (to me at least).

Rosso Corsa is a color.
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Associated with Scuderia Ferrari, I count that.

The 787 livery is played out on Mazdas.
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Would you put it on anything other than a Mazda?
 
Falken Tyres, Harrods, and Neon Genesis Evangelion have given us my favourite racing liveries that aren't a psychedelic Martini Porsche 917; but the standard Martini livery doesn't rank quite so highly as some other liveries in my book, but certainly higher than the 787B's orange and green, although the 787B does somehow make orange and green look good together, which is something.

Wait. Don't we have another thread for livery discussion?
 
Seriously Uncool because Wankel.

Having a wankel inevitably leads to this conversation.

"What's a Wankel?"

"Okay it's like a normal engine except instead of a piston going up and down it has a Doritos chip spinning. Hey you wouldn't happen to have any extra oil, would ya?"

Asking people for oil is uncool. ;)
 
I liked it when I saw a scale model of it in a store, back in 2001, fell in love when I got it in GT3, I used it everytime I could in GT4.. Did the Le Mans and Nurburgring 24H races with it in GT5, and now in GT6, I have it, I give the occasional lapping on the track I want to play, because right now, I almost have no time to sit on the couch and turn on the ps3, let alone play GT6.

Sub-Zero
 
Absolutely chilliest, coldest, coolest Sub Zero, for the same reason as R32 GT-R Group A. So fast against conventional motor using opponents that it had to be banned due to lobbying and bawling from the big names that couldn't beat it.
 
CarBastard
The sad and horribly uncool fact is that racing cars are by-the-numbers excercises of blending engineering with advertisement, they're the brainchilds of engineering nerds and beancounters. Except...when they're not. When a racing car defies belief, when it shocks and awes everyone in the racing community and ends up being much more than the sum of it's sponsors and the months of wind-tunnel testing, when it appears that someone in the meeting room that approved the racing program for said car actually had a heart and soul, that's when it can be cool. A situation that measures the coolness of a racing car? If when being unloaded of the truck that transports it, the other crews gasp and feel insecure it's cool. If kids go to the brand's museum solely to watch that car because it's a legend. If the crowd likes it so much that they admire it even if it DNF (Think DeltaWing 2012), then it's cool.

Thus, having just invented my parameters for judging the coolness of a racing car: The friggin' 787B is one of the friggin' coolest race cars ever.
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Totally agree with this post. The 787B is a legend. Sub zero.
 
CallmeDan
So, you drive an EV? It sounds like you wouldn't want to be uncool by going to a gas station and getting fuel for your car.
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We're talking about engine oil, which my car doesn't consume like it does gasoline.

Besides, it's a joke.
 
Leonidae@MFT
Absolutely chilliest, coldest, coolest Sub Zero, for the same reason as R32 GT-R Group A. So fast against conventional motor using opponents that it had to be banned due to lobbying and bawling from the big names that couldn't beat it.
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The 787B was actually one of the slower Group Cs of its day. The Le Mans 24 was the only race it won that season, as a result of other competitors having reliability issues. Still a legendary achievement, the only win for a Japanese manufacturer in the history of the Le Mans 24 Hours. 👍

I'll give it a Sub Zero.
 
CallmeDan
Then you should have specified that before.
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The alternative is the Wankel driver asking for oil so he can go refine it into gasoline... I think it's a fair assumption that when somebody asks for oil, they aren't looking to get fuel.
 
Zenith
The alternative is the Wankel driver asking for oil so he can go refine it into gasoline... I think it's a fair assumption that when somebody asks for oil, they aren't looking to get fuel.
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Well, oil and gas are used so interchangeably, it gets confusing.
 

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