Why peugeot 908

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I grinded the American Championship race to get the 4 mill for the 908. Awesome looking car. My thing is other than just to have it in my collection, which I am ok with, is there any advantage it has over the free Minolta? The minolta sounds much better and seems to be much faster around the track. Basically asking if it has strengths where the Minolta may have a weakness?

Also any other cars like the 908 that can compete with the modified Minolta?

Thanks
 
In real life the Minolta was flawed with reliability issues, and did not hold a candle to the porsches and the superior Sauber C9. Coming from Japan, i guess PD had to overpower it?

Would also like to know if anyone has done some proper testing on Group C and LMP cars, as I'm very interested in this subject.

It might be a bit early for people to have more than one of these cars to test, but with all the birthday glitches I'm sure we can hope for a comparison sooner or later..
 
alextehkid
In real life the Minolta was flawed with reliability issues, and did not hold a candle to the porsches and the superior Sauber C9. Coming from Japan, i guess PD had to overpower it?

Would also like to know if anyone has done some proper testing on Group C and LMP cars, as I'm very interested in this subject.

It might be a bit early for people to have more than one of these cars to test, but with all the birthday glitches I'm sure we can hope for a comparison sooner or later..
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Excuse my ignorance, I love racing on GT5 but I don't get a chance to watch real races. What is group c and LMP? I know they are a class of race cars but could you give some of examples of what cars would fall into what class?
 
I spent some time looking it up on wikipedia. The Group C cars are the original fuel for breakfast monsters that went round the track at astonishing speed. They competed at the end of the 80's and beginning of the 90's. (Someone confirm this?)

Later, more restrictions and more chicanes on the tracks lead to the development of Le Mans Prototype cars that are supposed to have better handling and efficiency.

They just do not seem to have any advantage in this game?
 
The Peugeot is a Premium car, Minolta not.
The Peugeot has got a diesel, just like in any god damn harvest machine, the Minolta not.
The Peugeot is like as beautiful as a french woman, the Minolta not.
The Peugeot is a god damn diesel!!! Minolta not.
The Peugeot is 2010 build, the Minolta not.
The Peugeot is currently the fastest LMP1 to date
The Peugeot won the Lemans series ahead of Audi, Minolta not.
The Peugeot has got a V12 Diesel engine. It's a Diesel!!!
In neutral it sounds like a truck, a freaken truck :drool:
 
Uscbryan
I grinded the American Championship race to get the 4 mill for the 908. Awesome looking car. My thing is other than just to have it in my collection, which I am ok with, is there any advantage it has over the free Minolta? The minolta sounds much better and seems to be much faster around the track. Basically asking if it has strengths where the Minolta may have a weakness?

Also any other cars like the 908 that can compete with the modified Minolta?

Thanks
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The Minolta sounds much better because the 908 is a diesel. While diesel engine give them more torque, they usually sound like ****. I think the 908 handle better because it has better aero but that's about it. Too much racing regulation is making race car nowaday too sterile, just my opinion.
 
Ah, at first I was gonna get the Audi R10 because people were saying it handled better than the 908

but if in the real world Le Mans, the 908 won over the R10, then I'm most definitely getting the 908 now!

In that weird but awesome Picasso colorway too
 
Well, since the R15+ isn't in the game, the 908 is the best LMP car to get, I guess, as far as recent cars go.

It lacks the self-combustion feature, though :sly:
 
Wikipedia
The Audi R10 TDI, usually abbreviated to R10, is a racing car from the German car manufacturer Audi. The car is a classic at Le Mans, winning every year since its introduction until it was replaced by the R15.
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The R10 was superior to the (then competing) Peugeot in every way.

This year Audi's R15 was plagued with problems, but so were the Peugeot the year before when the R15 won.

I'd like to see a real comparison between the R10, 908 and every other LMP and Group C car. Anyone for the job? :)
 
kazuyam
The Peugeot is a Premium car, Minolta not.
The Peugeot has got a diesel, just like in any god damn harvest machine, the Minolta not.
The Peugeot is like as beautiful as a french woman, the Minolta not.
The Peugeot is a god damn diesel!!! Minolta not.
The Peugeot is 2010 build, the Minolta not.
The Peugeot is currently the fastest LMP1 to date
The Peugeot won the Lemans series ahead of Audi, Minolta not.
The Peugeot has got a V12 Diesel engine. It's a Diesel!!!
In neutral it sounds like a truck, a freaken truck :drool:
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Awwww thanks for clearing that up. I didn't know it was a diesel. I thought only Audi made a diesel. That's why it's so quite. Cool to know and shows you my racing knowledge. I always liked the Audi because it was a Diesel. The 908 is beautiful, but I'm into Asian women... The premium part isn't a big deal to me because I have a hard time driving from cockpit view anyways.. Use bumper. I love the 908, just wanted to know the difference. Thanks again for the info. I guess maybe the Minolta was made a little unrealistic in the game.
 
I want an Aston lmp along with its amazing soundtrack, best sounding car at le mans since the vette boys turned up
 
From 1983 to about 1987, the Porsche 956 and the evo version 962 dominated Lemans and the group C like no other before. Peugeot and Jag came together with Mercedes/Sauber after the rules have changed in disadvantage to the already 'outdated' Porsche but Porsche wasn't done yet.
Cars made by other brands like Lancia, Ford, or Toyota and Nissan were just pitiful contenders against the brutal, legendary dominance of the Porsche 956/962.
In 1991, just with a lot of ***** luck, Mazda was able to win the 24h of Lemans, and only because all the other real strong cars had reliability probs.

And even after the small absent of Porsches victories, during 1988 to 1991, they returned with the pseudo street legal version of the 962, the Dauer 962 in 1994, a collaboration with Dauer sports and Porsche, and again mashed the contenders at the 24h of Lemans.

And I haven't mentioned the Imsa series yet!

Later on, Porsche used structures and parts of the original 962 to develop new racing models that again won Lemans during the mid and end of the 90'.
Hell, even the super street legal car Carrera GT is part of this history.

The Minolta 88C-V didn't even managed to end even that one single 24h hour Lemans event, it took part in it's short history in 1989.
The Sauber C9 won that race. So this car should be faster and more reliable compared to the Minolta. The Porsche finished third after a second Sauber.
 
It's a shame that PD didn't license Porsche as a brand for the game. Otherwise, we might have gotten to drive this legendary car from the Can-Am days:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_917

Quoted from Wikipedia:
"The 917/30 was the most powerful sports car racer ever built and raced. The 5.374 litre 12 cylinder (90.0 x 70.4 mm) twin-turbocharged engine could produce 1,580 bhp (1,180 kW) in qualifying tune, with twin turbochargers run up to full boost, a simply astonishing 39 psi (2.7 bar), though it usually raced with around 1,100 bhp (820 kW) at 7,800 rpm to preserve the engine. Whilst weighing only in at 1800 lb (816 kg), giving it a power to weight of 1967.36 bhp/tonne in qualifying tune and 1369.68 bhp/tonne in race tune. The 917/30 dominated the Can-Am series during the 1973 season. The 917/30 could go from 0-62 mph (100 km/h) in 1.9 seconds, 0-100 mph (160 km/h) in 3.9 seconds, 0-200 mph (320 km/h) in 10.9 seconds, and on to a top speed of more than 260 mph (420 km/h). These staggering levels of performance, the attendant fuel consumption of the engines, and ever increasing risk, has led to the 917/30 sometimes being cited as the car that killed Can-Am racing."
 
The Dauer is officialy not a Porsche, just like the Ruf tuned Porsches. Theoretically they could bring that one in.
It's a brilliant car.
 
kazuyam
The Peugeot is a Premium car, Minolta not.
The Peugeot has got a diesel, just like in any god damn harvest machine, the Minolta not.
The Peugeot is like as beautiful as a french woman, the Minolta not.
The Peugeot is a god damn diesel!!! Minolta not.
The Peugeot is 2010 build, the Minolta not.
The Peugeot is currently the fastest LMP1 to date
The Peugeot won the Lemans series ahead of Audi, Minolta not.
The Peugeot has got a V12 Diesel engine. It's a Diesel!!!
In neutral it sounds like a truck, a freaken truck :drool:
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What this guy said is true. Even better looking than both of the R10 and the R15 TDI plus and of course the speed. 👍

I already have the 908 HDi FAP "Team Peugeot Total". Currently saving up for the Team Oreca Matmut version.

My images of it:
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