The 6R4 moniker is explained as follows; “6” for the six cylinder engine, “R” for rally, “4” for four wheel drive. Austin Rover Motorsport hence devised the ‘Clubman 300’ specification Metro 6R4 – advertised for a bargain price of approx £16,000! The 1988 winner was guest celebrity driver Tony Pond (having his first competitive drive in a Metro 6R4 since the 1986 RAC Rally) and using all his previous racing experience to win convincingly from Pete Slights, who later went on to win the inaugural Superchallenge that year. This would serve two purposes. All adverts placed on 6R4.net are free, however 6R4.net does not guarantee the condition of vehicles, parts or memorabilia in any way. FISA representatives made several visits to Austin Rover to validate the production car totals and once the 200 examples were built, the MG Metro 6R4 was homologated as a Group B international rally car. However, the car was ideally suited to tight twisty circuits which favoured the 6R4’s nimble handling characteristics, and therefore narrowed the power disadvantage. The MG Metro 6R4 Clubman has a naturally aspirated six cylinders in V longitudinal middle engine providing a maximum torque of 305 Nm available from 5000 rpm and a maximum power outpup of 253 PS available at 7000 rpm transmitted to the 15 inch permanent all-wheel drive by … With the layout, design and specification virtually resolved, Austin Rover’s next race was to get the car homologated in time for the car’s proposed World Rally Championship debut on the 1985 Lombard RAC Rally. With this, the Metro 6R4 wouldn’t have turbo lag nor the heat and engineering problems associated with it. In France, the R-E-D prepared car of Didier Auriol (despite a couple of early retirements) won five of the qualifying rounds to win the 1986 French National Championship on a tie-break! I believe that is a rally car for the street much like an Evo or STi. Late last year we reported on an MG Metro 6R4 'Clubman' that was coming up for auction. AWIN Affiliates Program – by purchasing books with the links provided here you are also helping to support the Rally Group B Shrine! In 1981, John Davenport approached Williams GP Engineering with a proposition to design British Leyland’s future Group B contender. The team having already rejected a front-engined V8 Metro with rear wheel drive, primarily due to the driver having to sit too far back that he couldn’t actually see the front of the car. Ultimately the 6R4 was too late, taking four and a half years to get from the drawing board to the stage, in which time turbocharging developments had progressed so fast that the turbo lag problems experienced with the early Group B cars had been overcome considerably! The 6R4 moniker is explained as follows; “6” for the six cylinder engine, “R” for rally, “4” for four wheel drive. The 6R4 appeared in two guises. DAM4100 (Metro 6R4) David Appleby and Tony Pond's superb creation based on 6R4 Clubman's Chassis #183 A factory built MG Metro 6R4 still retaining the original chassis number, upgraded in period to become the very first DAM 4100 ~ born out of a collaboration between legendary works 6R4 driver Tony Pond and works rally car engineer and driver David Appleby Presented in … Despite having taken a rally test with the team, Hannu Mikkola chose to stay with Audi for 1986. A large number of the employees had been made redundant after the WRC programme had been forcefully abandoned. In the case of the MG Metro 6R4 these were called the 'Clubman' cars, and were available for the general public (or aspiring rally drivers) to purchase direct from Austin Rover for approx £34,800 +VAT (as at April 1986). Thus, actual road cars turned out to be very rare since most of them were upgraded to international rally spec shortly after leaving the factory by their owners. Others remained to oversee the low key 1987 national programme. That's an amazing Ultimate hatch of the XX century, and only few modern manufacture hatches would outperform it, I guess. The Metro’s original drive train was dumped, and replaced with a 3-liter V6 mounted in the middle of the car. 2 door hatchback fiberglass bodyshell, with aluminium roof panels and steel doors concealed with plastic air boxes and front and rear aerofoils, MacPherson struts, coil springs, dampers, adjustable anti-roll bar, Struts, lower wishbones, coil springs, dampers, adjustable anti-roll bar, Ventilated discs, 304mm front and rear, hydraulic handbrake. Varying in power from ‘Clubman’ to ‘International’ tune, the rallycross Metro 6R4 often had trouble living with its faster turbocharged rivals. All that the team were waiting for was to get their hands on the final engine to replace the ‘hacked’ V8. The car bore very little resemblance to either the road-going Metro saloon or the prototype Metro 6R4 which had been announced 15 months earlier! In the end, the drivers were only driving at about 80% of the car’s capability, primarily in order to preserve their cars and enable them to finish the events. Ford on the other hand lost the services of Malcolm Wilson to Austin Rover Motorsport, lured by the promise of a full World Rally Championship programme, of which Ford didn’t plan on doing in their first season. Created for the short lived Group B rally category, the 4WD mid engined MG Metro 6R4 of 1984 (6-cylinder, Rear engine, 4-wheel-drive) was a world away from the best selling city car to which it bore only a superficial cosmetic resemblance. This point was proven when Ken Wood took delivery of his car on a Thursday, and with the above parts added (and Golden Wonder sponsorship decals barely dry! Immediately after, the company began to plan ahead for the team’s first serious attempt at winning championships on the world stage. After Group B’s ban, most of the unsold 6R4s were converted into the “Clubman 300” version built specifically for participation in UK rallies. If you enjoy the website then please donate so that it can remain online, free to all. As such, for 1988, Rover instigated the Esso Metro Superchallenge – a multi discipline one make championship solely for ‘Clubman 300’ Metro 6R4s. http://www.flickr.com/photos/triggerscarstuff/sets/72157609989183252/with/3055890171/. FISA representatives made several visits to Austin Rover to validate the production car totals and once the 200 examples were built, the MG Metro 6R4 was finally awarded its Group B paperwork. The 200 road-going cars were known as the 'homologation' examples. And secondly, Austin Rover Motorsport could quite easily clear their compound of this, effectively redundant, Group B supercar. The official homologation version was known as the “Clubman” and per the rules 200 units had to be built. MacPherson strut with parallelogram wishbone and trailing arm, coil spring, telescopic Bilstein gas shock absorber and anti-roll bar. And that's made by Morris Garages! Having rejected the Honda V6 (Austin Rover then shared a great deal of engineering development with the Japanese manufacturer), the only other obvious solution would be their own tried and tested 3.5 litre Rover (formerly Buick) V8 engine. Around 200 examples were produced and sold to … Austin Rover was one of the rare few manufacturers to be able to stay within its original homologation scheduling. This hatchback could be a serious problem to the supercars the same period! Engine horsepower and torque curve for MG Metro 6R4 Clubman (man. working steeringwheel; working dials In a mere three month period, August to October 1985, Austin Rover built 200 MG Metro 6R4s and had them inspected by the FISA, hence successfully homologating the car into Group B effective November 1st, 1985 (homologation # B-277). The first was the road-going version Clubman, which developed 250 bhp and was sold to the public for £40,000. The original prototype first turned a wheel at a private airfield in Oxfordshire in February of 1983 – driven by Tony Pond in plain red livery. Many of these cars still compete favourably to this very day even though they are largely handicapped by various restrictions. Plagued with bad reliability and numerous retirements, as the team attempted to make up for their increasing power disadvantage to their turbocharged rivals, it wasn’t until the 1986 1000 Lakes Rally in September that the 6R4 achieved another finish on the world stage! It was built with the active assistance of Williams GP Engineering who at the time the project was started (1981) were at the pinnacle of F1 success and interestingly … The Austin Rover Motor Sport division saw the Quattro, took a look at the Metro, and an idea began to form. Fitted with a purpose-made crank, Rover Vitesse racing internals, and Weber carburettors, it produced a healthy 250 BHP – ideal to test the car until the final engine build was ready. The interior features a standard MG Metro dashboard and steering wheel, vinyl Austin Metro door cards, and grey Cobra bucket seats. 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Tony Pond in MG Metro 6R4 at the 1986 Rallye Monte-Carlo Patriotic debut for 6R4 at the 1985 Lombard RAC Rally The 6R4 appeared in two guises. Even with the low-powered ‘hacked’ engine, it was now official: Austin Rover Motorsport had a rally car which could potentially challenge the might of Europe’s finest, and also rekindle the success of its forefathers. lol someone must be drunk. From circuit racing to hillclimbing, and autocross to drag racing, the Metro 6R4 has done them all, even competing on the infamous Pike’s Peak Hillclimb and Paris-Dakar rallies during its extended competition lifetime. The MG Metro 6R4 ( 6 cylinder R rally 4 wheel drive) was a pure out and out competition car that retained a couple of panels from the original Metro body, but enough to clearly identify it as a Metro. I bet it's very hard to get this thing of the ground in a jump or something like that! With a bold marketing step, Austin Rover Motorsport decided to show the cars in the ‘classic’ red and white livery reminiscent of the team’s very successful 1960’s Mini Coopers and ‘Big’ Healeys. Shut up man you sound like a bloody idiot. It was basically the same car as the original ‘Clubman’ except for an engine which gave about 50 BHP more, but at a price only 40% of the originals! The 3-litre Austin Rover V64V engine, designed by ex-Cosworth employee David Wood, was a 90 degree V6 with 4 valves per cylinder (hence the “V64V” moniker), with belt-driven twin-overhead camshafts per bank producing either 250 BHP in basic ‘Clubman’ form or 380/410 BHP in ‘International’ tune. With Austin Rover committed to building 200 6R4s, the homologation specification was announced to the assembled press at Knebworth House in May of 1985, when Tony Pond and Marc Duez took journalists for a ride around a ‘mock’ rally stage. You'll sure have alot of downforce on this! For sale 1985 MG Metro 6R4 Clubman. Specifications - MG Metro 6R4 Clubman: Engine V6, 2991cc: Power 250bhp @ 7000rpm: Torque 225lb ft @ 6500rpm: Transmission Five-speed manual, four-wheel drive, limited-slip diff During the latter part of 1986 and early 1987, Austin Rover advertised the car so extensively that within 10 months they had sold every single car – one enterprising company even bought a batch of 40 to prepare as road cars! 166 - MG Metro 6R4's (1).jpg 1,024 × 768; 103 KB Looks like a self-made bodykit made of plastic! Sounds like a joke! An unlikely candidate for a rally car, the MG Metro 6R4 hit the World Rally Championship (WRC) in 1985 without much success. 5) in 1985, the model with 2-door fastback sedan body and V-6 2991 cm3 / 182.2 cui, 186 kW / 253 PS / 250 hp (DIN) offered since May 1985 for Europe . All brands, trademarks, and visual media are the property of their respective owners. As a team, Austin Rover Motorsport finished higher in the 1985 World Rally Championship (solely from Tony’s RAC result!) The same format was repeated in 1989, with the Superchallenge falling to Bill Barton, and the Metro 6R4 Trophy race once again going to Tony Pond. Detailed engine characteristics. So, if you have any suggestion, say it in comment :) - DO NOT REUPLOAD ON AN OTHER SITE - Colors : Primary color : body Secondary color : Some parts of the engine and of the tuning Features. The competition car effectively only shared the name of the production Metro as it featured a mid-mounted engine with four wheel drive transmission enclosed … Citation from Wikipedia MG Metro 6R4 page: "...The resulting car was shown to the world in May 1985. Very loosely based on the Austin Mini Metro, this homologation car was very far off from the normal production model. So, if you have any suggestion, say it in comment :) - DO NOT REUPLOAD ON AN OTHER SITE - Colors : Primary color : body Secondary color : Some parts of the engine and of the tuning Features working steeringwheelworking dials3D engineworking lightsworking indicatorsHQ engineHD … Just how many 6R4s were actually built is difficult to ascertain precisely but what is known is that 233 Clubman bodyshells were manufactured. The future of the Metro 6R4 (and in particular the vast amount of cars still remaining in the compound at Cowley) looked decidedly bleak! – success was short lived as the car retired due to an alternator fire. I think back in 1985 someone in Testarossa was very disappointed, when this lunchbox on wheels destroyed him in acceleration! Ride height, camber, toe-in and anti-roll are all adjustable. (learn more). In late 1987, a group of owners concerned about the future of the Metro 6R4 in rallying, formed the Rover sanctioned ‘6R4 Owners Club’ in the hope that they could present a ‘united front’ against all the organisers, officials and competitors attempting to ban or handicap the cars out of the sport. Is there anything with more homologation model look? Didn't MG have more to shove in its body? In the UK (and Ireland) the Metro 6R4 recorded its first international rally victory when David Llewellyn won the 1986 Circuit of Ireland Rally, against some much-fancied tarmac experts. Renault 5 Turbo limited edition Tour de Corse vs MG Metro 6R4 Clubman, Mercedes-Benz CLK 430 vs MG Metro 6R4 Clubman, Lotus Esprit V8 vs Proto Motors Spirra 4,6 vs Honda NSX-R GT vs MG Metro 6R4 Clubman, Morgan +8 vs MG Maestro Turbo vs MG Metro Turbo vs MG Metro 6R4 Clubman. Back on the WRC ‘stage’, the latter half of the 1986 season saw some improving fortunes; three Metro 6R4s finished in the top 10 competitors of the 1000 Lakes Rally in Finland, Malcolm recorded an excellent 4th overall on the Sanremo Rally and the team clinched the Team Award on the RAC Rally with 6th, 7th, 8th, & 9th positions. 1984 International Spec, Group B MG Metro 6R4 For Sale £349,950 Ramsport are proud to offer for sale this fully original works-specification MG Metro 6R4 rally car, freshly restored here at Ramsport during 2016/17 to as-new condition. @CarElitist Austin Rover’s other big decision against the trend was to build the car as a ‘turn-key’ rally car without Type Approval. In preparation for the 1986 rally season, which would see Austin Rover Motorsport contest all the European rounds of the World Rally Championship (a bold move), the team started to recruit all of the necessary personnel and expertise required for such an intense programme. The engine turned out to be too bulky to fit in the back of the Metro, so the decision was taken to cut out two cylinders and (literally!) Basically therefore, the Metro 6R4 had to be sold as a kit, which owners had to carry out a minor degree of final assembly prior to it being ‘ready to rally’. Very loosely based on the Austin Mini Metro, this homologation car was very far off from the normal production model. Apart from the tragedy in Portugal – which saw all ‘factory’ teams withdraw – Austin Rover Motorsport had 4 entries (out of a total of 6) retire due to engine failures (usually either cambelt or valve guide related). Despite taking fastest stage times on 8 stages – to lead by almost three minutes! The 1994 Chevy Impala SS hit 0-60 2 seconds slower and did a 15.0@92 in the 1/4 mile. Add to this numerous other rallies at all levels and it is clear to see that the Metro 6R4 was the car to have at every level except the top world echelon – winning a total of 5 championships during the 1986 season. It will no doubt go down in the history books as the Group B rally car with the most successful national record and longest post-ban rally career. Ride height, camber, toe-in and anti-roll are all adjustable, front and rear ventilated disks 305mm diameter with four piston calipers all round, dual circuit with servo, adjustable ratio split front to rear, two main longitudinal chassis members, integrated roll cage, fabricated front and rear chassis frames. Built for the short-lived Group B era, the car failed to make much of an impression on … There was a so-called MG Metro 6R4 Clubman model which was the road going version of the rally car. In 1980, despite eventually becoming competitive and reliable, British Leyland Motorsport ‘retires’ the Triumph TR7 V8 from international rallying as Audi announces that they will field two four wheel drive quattros for the 1981 World Rally Championship. You need downforce. Unfortunately, won't be ever tested, best hot hatch ever for under 40,000 dollars, https://www.ferr ari.com/it-SM/au to/new-limited-e dition-V12, http://www.flickr.com/photos/triggerscarstuff/sets/72157609989183252/with/3055890171/, 3.35 m (132 in) long, 1.88 m (74 in) wide, 1.50 m (59 in) high. 1985 MG Metro 6R4 Clubman (man. Every Metro 6R4 features an aluminium roof skin and front and rear spoilers also made from shaped and riveted aluminium, although the design is different from the evolution car. 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