MG Metro 6R4 - car classics

MG Metro 6R4

Just as a company Ford in the case of the model RS200, Austin Rover wanted to make the best model for participation in the world rally Championship in group b. But the company needed to manufacture 200 production road cars. In 1981, the project gave Williams Gran Prix Engineering and by the end of 1982, they gave the first model of the Metro with an average volume of a V-shaped six-cylinder engine, which was in fact the engine Rover, V-neck-cylinders with two captured cylinders. Hereinafter in series-production vehicles used bespoke V-shaped six-cylinder engine, which was called the V6-4V from the four valves per cylinder. At that time, as the car looked like Austin Metro, it is only the body of the car with a safety valve in the event of overturning of the machine. On a tubular chassis with the two sides were used MacPherson suspension. In the model hid three differential, sharing of torque, and it was an all-wheel drive. Production vehicles had a capacity of 186 kW, later models Evo reached 335 kW while the machine is designed for the rally on cross-country terrain - 487 kW.