If you were a rally car, what kind of life would you like to live after your pavement-punishing career finishes? Would you cruise around local sales auctions, hoping some driver will take you for another exciting motorsport adventure, or would you give yourself over to peaceful days of dust collecting in automotive museums, to the joy and happiness of all the visitors? Our friends over at InsideSimRacing found an even better solution: full-size simulator.
Small multi-industrial company QSP Products is involved with Subaru and its tuning to such an extent that it has decided to convert two ex-Subaru rally cars into full-sized driving simulators. Ferdi, the CEO of the company, tore out great chunks of original-fit Subaru to replace with Fanatec Club Sport wheels, pedals and shifters. To make things more exciting, three big television screens were installed onto custom metal racks high in the air, allowing the screens to hover above the bonnets of the two cars when ‘driving’ inside the car. Inside the two engine bays, PC components stand in for the familiar boxer units, all flawlessly combined with the car and controls by QSP’s talented employees.
Needles to say, the cars are used as stationary objects only and as such, they do not produce centrifugal forces on a driver while tackling corners. Nevertheless, these conversions are undoubtedly promising in stimulating drivers to bring their A-game in the face of a lap timer that is mercilessly ticking down. Not to mention that you get to brag to your friends about being inside a real rally car…
Read the whole story about the simulators at ISRTV.com
This is not the first time we get to read about fully functional rigs using a real car or many of its components. Four years ago we stumbled across a racing cockpit built from an Opel Astra. QSP’s product is pushing things even further by retaining the actual car. What do you think future experiments will bring us? Let us know in the comments below.
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I need this at home.. Is it OK if I live on 5th floor and have small room and lots of angry neighbors :))) I think it will be fine..
This is car taxidermy and it’s sad.
I feel as though it’s a better fate than having the car stuck in a museum, unable to drive anywhere.
“I feel as though it’s a better fate than having the car stuck in a museum, unable to drive anywhere.”
@Obelisk So exactly the same as being turned into a Simulator. It’s stuck were it is not going any were.
But in a way, it’s driving someone from point A to point B very fast – although digitally.
I need to try that out!
I need something like this in my life. lol
I’m surprised you didn’t bring up the GT Simulators using both the Audi TT-R and the R8 LMS,
Thanks for the interesting read, Matej!
I ❤️ Rally cars
My fave types of cars
This is the most meta thing I’ve seen yet.