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Written by Ollie Marriage
So a little bit of fun here we thought we"d pitch Vauxhall"s hottest Adam road car against its new R2 rally car. OK, so the hottest road car isn"t that hot the S has a 1.4-litre 148bhp turbocharged four cylinder that drives the front wheels through a six speed manual gearbox. It"s a lukewarm hatch, basically.The rally car, as you would expect, is more trick. It"s built in Germany by Opel Motorsport and complies with the FIA"s R2 regulations. It has a 1.6-litre naturally aspirated Ecotec four cylinder that"s been tuned to develop 187bhp and features a carbon airbox, bespoke Bosch ECU, revised cooling etc. Then there"s the five-speed Sadev sequential gearbox, three-way adjustable Reiger dampers, hydraulic handbrake, limited slip differential, AP Racing brakes, Sparco competition seats and a host of other trick bits and bobs that are designed to make this thing as fast through a rally stage (either tarmac or gravel) as possible.Photography: Simon Thompson
Date written: 19 Mar 2016
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ID: 2619
So a little bit of fun here we thought we"d pitch Vauxhall"s hottest Adam road car against its new R2 rally car. OK, so the hottest road car isn"t that hot the S has a 1.4-litre 148bhp turbocharged four cylinder that drives the front wheels through a six speed manual gearbox. It"s a lukewarm hatch, basically.The rally car, as you would expect, is more trick. It"s built in Germany by Opel Motorsport and complies with the FIA"s R2 regulations. It has a 1.6-litre naturally aspirated Ecotec four cylinder that"s been tuned to develop 187bhp and features a carbon airbox, bespoke Bosch ECU, revised cooling etc. Then there"s the five-speed Sadev sequential gearbox, three-way adjustable Reiger dampers, hydraulic handbrake, limited slip differential, AP Racing brakes, Sparco competition seats and a host of other trick bits and bobs that are designed to make this thing as fast through a rally stage (either tarmac or gravel) as possible.Photography: Simon Thompson
Date written: 19 Mar 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 2619
