The poor car PD forgot about (Ferrari 288 GTO)

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Alex_Mac_
PD has done the car so wrong in the game. The will not let you put rally suspension or dirt tires on the car, which is obviously crazy. Just saw it so I had to come complain about it. I can't believe they wouldn't do that and will never understand why. They have done this car a total and complete wrong.
 
Carl the Sloth
Despite its planning for Group B its hardly a rally car is it?
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Well it was born to play in the dirt, it was completely designed to go as a rally car. Had Group B lasted a little longer, the car was ready to show up for the 1987 season and there were hardly a difference between the street and rally cars of Group B, I think the only significant changes made for race form were the roll bars.
 
Mr P510
Ferrari 288 GTO in the dirt....NO!!
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YES in the dirt!!! Ferrari designed the 288 GTO to compete in Group B rally racing, it was born for that one soul purpose of playing in the dirt! There are so few of the car in existence because only 200 road cars were required t be made!

Leonidae@MFT
Why not? Porsches, Bentleys etc have also been rallied..
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And more so than those other cars, this model was specifically designed as a rally car.
 
It SHOULD be able to accept rally suspension BUT I'll tell ya the way Kaz and his boys look at it: "it never did rally and the 270+ cars built were for street use only"

While I get that way of thinking I still think it would be fun to play in the dirt in a Ferrari as this GTO was born to do
 
Amac500
PD has done the car so wrong in the game. The will not let you put rally suspension or dirt tires on the car, which is obviously crazy. Just saw it so I had to come complain about it. I can't believe they wouldn't do that and will never understand why. They have done this car a total and complete wrong.
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And they still need to fix the broken rev counter on it -_-
 
You forgot to mention the screwed up rev counter that only goes between 800-1200 rpm in interior view
 
Amac500
Well it was born to play in the dirt, it was completely designed to go as a rally car. Had Group B lasted a little longer, the car was ready to show up for the 1987 season and there were hardly a difference between the street and rally cars of Group B, I think the only significant changes made for race form were the roll bars.
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The 288GTO was not built for gravel rally, it was built for tarmac stages and for the track side of group B regulations (that never came to fruition).

While Group B is now almost exclusively known for its rally classification, what most people are either unaware of or have forgotten is that is was also going to be a track classification as well. Its for this track classification that the 288 was destined, and the 959 was originally designed.
 
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Not sure it would have fared well against the Grp. B 4WD machines to be honest. Might have saved them some embarrassement!
 
Scaff
The 288GTO was not built for gravel rally, it was built for tarmac stages and for the track side of group B regulations (that never came to fruition).

While Group B is now almost exclusively known for its rally classification, what most people are either unaware of or have forgotten is that is was also going to be a track classification as well. Its for this track classification that the 288 was destined, and the 959 was originally designed.
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Okay that answers my question!
 
I read that the 288 GTO was built for Group B racing, not rallying, so it was never planned to race in the dirt. The FIA was going to launch a sports car race series using the Group B specs for track cars. When Group B rallying was banned, Group B sports cars died with it.
 
It could be possible that Ferrari didn't want this car driven off-road? Ferrari seems to be rather finicky with their cars.
 
The rev counter needs fixing along with the typically Italian speedometer but as for tyre choice it has hardly completely ruined the car. I love driving mine! (In game, not a real one sadly)
 
Scaff
The 288GTO was not built for gravel rally, it was built for tarmac stages and for the track side of group B regulations (that never came to fruition).

While Group B is now almost exclusively known for its rally classification, what most people are either unaware of or have forgotten is that is was also going to be a track classification as well. Its for this track classification that the 288 was destined, and the 959 was originally designed.
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Much like the Renault 5 Maxi Turbo, that was a primarily tarmac-designed car, no?
 
^ No. The Group B the Ferrari was intended for was the GT category that accompanied Group C Endurance/Sports car races.

Group B itself was a replacement for both a GT and a Rally category.

That's where some confusion happens.
 
Furinkazen
Much like the Renault 5 Maxi Turbo, that was a primarily tarmac-designed car, no?
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While the 5 was certainly better on tarmac (which at that time was the strongest areas for French manufacturers in rally - most rallying in France and Germany has tended to be tarmac based) it was reasonably capable on both surfaces.

It does however bring up an interesting point, most people believe that the Audi dominated on all stages as soon as it hit Group B, which was not actually the case. To be blunt in original Quattro was a bit rubbish on tarmac, with the Lanica 037 more than capable of beating it (as '83s results show) on sealed surfaces. The WRC at that time however was dominated by gravel rally's, which played into the Audi's strengths, it took '83 and '84 for Audi to refine the car and 4WD system to also dominate on tarmac.
 
I still have back in GT5 Ferrari F430 with bugged dirt tyres on it. Maybe we'll have another event where you can force dirt tyres on cars like that.
 
Thanks @Scaff for saying what I was going to say, Grp B circuit racing died almost before it even started.

If group b was just rallying this car would've exactly faired well on a special stage would it?

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