The Trollmobile

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I think the design is similar to the handling. Hard and careless.

There was a show on discovery channel about the building of the Tank car pre Leno, Jay actually came in 3/4's of the way through the build and said he would buy it as long as they converted it to an automatic transmission for him.

Quit alot of design hours went into the car before they even started shaping metal so you cant really say its careless, the car was designed around the engine using old WW2 fighter plane fuel tanks.
 
But can this troll-car sing? *points at avatar*

I guess if it had a sound system you could hear it slowly creeping up on you as the Trololol song intensified. Eerie.
 
But can this troll-car sing? *points at avatar*

I guess if it had a sound system you could hear it slowly creeping up on you as the Trololol song intensified. Eerie.

It can sing, it's exhaust note is unbelievable.
 
A troll car is one that dominates its race class effectively from exploiting a certain advantage. Whether that advantage was an entirely new concept or just one that had been improved on, the troll car used it so well that it won most, if not all, of the races it entered. Most troll cars were so good they caused their governing motorsports body to change the rules just to specifically outlaw that car.

Chapparal 2J- It had the sucker fans. At that point in racing aerodynamics were a largely untapped source of grip. As everyone knows, the faster you go the more downforce you create and the better you stick to the track. The 2J used its fans to create massive amounts of downforce at lower speeds, thus creating significantly more downforce than any other car on the track at low speeds and allowing to corner better. It wiped the floor with the competition. Hard.

Lancia Stratos- This was the first dominant car of world rally. The first car ever designed specifically for rally. It owned Group 4 for 3 years and was competitive for several more.

Lancia Delta HF Integrale- This thing trolled world rally stages for years with is Torsen differential and advanced braking system. It still holds pretty much every WRC record for amount of stages and championships won.

Audi Quattro- In 1979 FISA (FIA now) legalized 4WD systems in rally. Most manufacturers thought the systems at the time were too expensive and heavy to have any practical application. In 1980 Audi showed the world that if you wanted to be competitive in rally, you better have 4WD. Although for the first two seasons its results were inconsistent due to reliability problems, the races that it finished were won by enormous margins. However, in the newly created Group B, it would become one of the major players and then go on to claim many victories in Rallycross GT.

Chevy Corvette C5-R- There is no replacement for displacement. And never did that famous quote of Enzo Ferrari ring more true than when the 7.0L Corvette C5-R manhandled Le Mans endurance racing and ALMS (in 2001 Dale Earnhardt and his son learned how to turn right in this car). It managed wins (even some 1-2 and 1-2-3 finishes) at 24 Hours of Daytona, 12 Hours of Sebring, and 24 Hours of Le Mans as well as a dominance of ALMS. In 2002, the Corvette C5-R only lost one ALMS race.

Ford GT40- Ford attempted to buy Ferrari in the early 1960s. When that failed, they decided to send a big FU to Ferrari by beating them at their own game: European endurance racing. Originally powered by a 4.7L V8 but soon upgraded to a 7.0L V8, the car won the 24 Hours of Le Mans 4 times in a row. The FIA placed engine displacement rules to keep Ford's 427 engine out.

Nissan Skyline GT-R R32- Few cars were ever as dominating as the original Godzilla. There had been Skylines before. There had been Skylines that won races before. But never before had there been such a force of total and complete of overpowering automotive excellence from Nissan. A twin turbo inline-6, all-wheel-drive, 4-wheel-steering, and all other kinds of electronic gadgetry and technology came together to produce one of the greatest cars to ever be raced. It won the Japanese Touring Car Championship from 1989 to 1993, winning every race it entered in both the JTCC and the FIA N1 Super Taikyu. But the 1989 ownage of JTCC was not enough for Nissan, they travelled to enter the Australian Touring Car Championship. At that point the Ford Sierra RS Cosworth ruled the ATCC, but that all changed when Nissan brought their GT-R and took the series for 3 straight years. The GT-r dominated the Pacific touring car championships so badly that it didn't just lead to a change in the rules, it led to the demise of both the Japanese and Australian touring car cups.
 
Mercedes CLK-GTR/CLK-LM.
Dominated the FIA GT so much that noone entered the championship the next year.
 
The Veyron is the Trollmobile.

Finally, someone figured it out.

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Learn to drive it, people. Seriously.

It's not a matter of learning to drive it. You can learn to work around its shortcomings, but you can't make them go away no matter how you try. It simply underperforms around actual race circuits relative to other supercars, no matter how skilled the driver. Making sure to keep fire away from paper doesn't change the fact that paper is still flammable, and working around Veyron's poor cornering abilities doesn't make them go away. Other supercars can simply move through corners faster than the Veyron, so the arguments about the Veyron being a joke in corners still stand.
 
I find that Veyron picture so hilarious. Can't stop laughing.....I don't think it's a trollmobile though.
 
A troll car is one that dominates its race class effectively from exploiting a certain advantage. Whether that advantage was an entirely new concept or just one that had been improved on, the troll car used it so well that it won most, if not all, of the races it entered. Most troll cars were so good they caused their governing motorsports body to change the rules just to specifically outlaw that car.

Chapparal 2J- It had the sucker fans. At that point in racing aerodynamics were a largely untapped source of grip. As everyone knows, the faster you go the more downforce you create and the better you stick to the track. The 2J used its fans to create massive amounts of downforce at lower speeds, thus creating significantly more downforce than any other car on the track at low speeds and allowing to corner better. It wiped the floor with the competition. Hard.

Lancia Stratos- This was the first dominant car of world rally. The first car ever designed specifically for rally. It owned Group 4 for 3 years and was competitive for several more.

Lancia Delta HF Integrale- This thing trolled world rally stages for years with is Torsen differential and advanced braking system. It still holds pretty much every WRC record for amount of stages and championships won.

Audi Quattro- In 1979 FISA (FIA now) legalized 4WD systems in rally. Most manufacturers thought the systems at the time were too expensive and heavy to have any practical application. In 1980 Audi showed the world that if you wanted to be competitive in rally, you better have 4WD. Although for the first two seasons its results were inconsistent due to reliability problems, the races that it finished were won by enormous margins. However, in the newly created Group B, it would become one of the major players and then go on to claim many victories in Rallycross GT.

Chevy Corvette C5-R- There is no replacement for displacement. And never did that famous quote of Enzo Ferrari ring more true than when the 7.0L Corvette C5-R manhandled Le Mans endurance racing and ALMS (in 2001 Dale Earnhardt and his son learned how to turn right in this car). It managed wins (even some 1-2 and 1-2-3 finishes) at 24 Hours of Daytona, 12 Hours of Sebring, and 24 Hours of Le Mans as well as a dominance of ALMS. In 2002, the Corvette C5-R only lost one ALMS race.

Ford GT40- Ford attempted to buy Ferrari in the early 1960s. When that failed, they decided to send a big FU to Ferrari by beating them at their own game: European endurance racing. Originally powered by a 4.7L V8 but soon upgraded to a 7.0L V8, the car won the 24 Hours of Le Mans 4 times in a row. The FIA placed engine displacement rules to keep Ford's 427 engine out.

Nissan Skyline GT-R R32- Few cars were ever as dominating as the original Godzilla. There had been Skylines before. There had been Skylines that won races before. But never before had there been such a force of total and complete of overpowering automotive excellence from Nissan. A twin turbo inline-6, all-wheel-drive, 4-wheel-steering, and all other kinds of electronic gadgetry and technology came together to produce one of the greatest cars to ever be raced. It won the Japanese Touring Car Championship from 1989 to 1993, winning every race it entered in both the JTCC and the FIA N1 Super Taikyu. But the 1989 ownage of JTCC was not enough for Nissan, they travelled to enter the Australian Touring Car Championship. At that point the Ford Sierra RS Cosworth ruled the ATCC, but that all changed when Nissan brought their GT-R and took the series for 3 straight years. The GT-r dominated the Pacific touring car championships so badly that it didn't just lead to a change in the rules, it led to the demise of both the Japanese and Australian touring car cups.

Nice list! I believe the Viper needs to get added, too, for real-life racing. If we're talking videogames, certainly the Viper (along with the Mitsubishi GTO) were among some of the trollmobiles of the original Gran Turismo.
 
They need to bring back Active Ground Effects for racing, imagine the possibilities.

Yes, a return to drivers being killed on a yearly basis.

Cars deriving a large proportion of their downforce from ground effect belong in the past, and whilst the principle and conception of those cars was very innovative at the time, the cars themselves are simply not safe to drive. If the car bottoms-out or the side skirting fails you are going straight into the wall at quite a speed.
 
I'd add the Audi R10 TDi to Enzo_Guy's list. Only, since diesel produces an eco-weenie friendly "greenwash" for the LeMans race and the ALMS series, they still haven't closed the loopholes that allow it (and its diesel brethren) to dominate.
 
I'd add the Audi R10 TDi to Enzo_Guy's list. Only, since diesel produces an eco-weenie friendly "greenwash" for the LeMans race and the ALMS series, they still haven't closed the loopholes that allow it (and its diesel brethren) to dominate.

YET they banned the Mazda 787B...
 
so the arguments about the Veyron being a joke in corners still stand.

Lawyered.

My brother took the Fiat Panda into an online lobby of three guys racing Zonda Rs around Rome and told them about a new glitch where you had to park adjacent to a sort of gate by the side of the track then everyone, who HAD to be driving beige Pandas, had to ram the left, front and rear sides of the parked Panda, the idea being that if each car hit the Panda at the same time it would shoot up in the air so fast it would break through the top of the map. He had them doing that for about 15 minutes. It was hard to stifle the laughter over the headset when they were saying 'oh, mine's silver, is that a problem?' and 'I only have the A112, it's about the right shape though?' and blaming each other for doing it wrong. They figured it out when my brother got bored and drove off shouting about Michael Schumacher. He's 19, believe it or not.

Therefore, the Panda is my troll car.
 
(in 2001 Dale Earnhardt and his son learned how to turn right in this car).

Dale Earnhardt had one win and twenty top fives at road courses in his NASCAR career, so I'm pretty sure he knew how to turn right by the time he did the 24 at Daytona. Just thought I'd point that out....
 
Taking a drag tune SRT4 to the "tunnel drag" honda room, Having them talk crap about it and say "ill run your pos of neon with my ek" Drag starts and you blast off the line..and there no where in sight.

SRT4 is a trollmobile. 614 hp,638 ftq, 1100 kg. can be tuned to hit 221 mph(mine) love hearing people say "damn that neon is fast!" i even got called a troll once.
specially love hearing the kids, in the exotic cars when i beat them. Hilarious.
Cause i will say hey wana race my neon? and there like "haha a neon my mom drives a neon"...And i proceed to dust them. and they get mad.
Yep i used the neon card.
 
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Fun fact: The 2J used to suck stones off the road and fling them backward at opponents.
i been studing this car in my motor sport mechanics course at college and well it on of the most brilliant cars ever and ^^ is really what drivers said so it would be banned as no other cars could compete with due to it being in a whole league of its own.
the race teams were scared of rapid change so it was eventually banned another example is diesels in the wtcc and other categories of similar racing they got banned due to petrols can't keep up
 
Fully tune a Honda Odyssey, give it dirt tires, paint it gold chrome. Take it online into a rally track and watch people crash all around you trying to see what you're driving.
 
The overall lesson of the Chaparral 2J is: looks can be deceiving.
It may not be the prettiest car, but as a racing car exploring a radical concept, it's fast and amazing. I love it and it's not a trollface!
 
The 2J used to troll the GTWorld championship in GT4. The car almost never needed to pit, such was the way it preserved its tyres. :p
 
Taking a drag tune SRT4 to the "tunnel drag" honda room, Having them talk crap about it and say "ill run your pos of neon with my ek" Drag starts and you blast off the line..and there no where in sight.

SRT4 is a trollmobile. 614 hp,638 ftq, 1100 kg. can be tuned to hit 221 mph(mine) love hearing people say "damn that neon is fast!" i even got called a troll once.
specially love hearing the kids, in the exotic cars when i beat them. Hilarious.
Cause i will say hey wana race my neon? and there like "haha a neon my mom drives a neon"...And i proceed to dust them. and they get mad.
Yep i used the neon card.

So true, I've heard that before myself and that was way back when we were on v1.03!! Another FF troll car is the C4 VTS. Use the WRC Wing, give it 481hp (like I have) and hear the same things come from the kiddies, "I'll beat your POS french car" and when I whip them it's "oh, you only beat me because it's a WRC car!" :odd::irked:
 
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