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Originally Posted by Mixer
GRM to build Peugeot TCR car from 2024.
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Great news! It goes to show Australian outifts are capable of designing and building customer cars for the world market, just like I said!
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Originally Posted by V8 Fireworks
You'd think with the spare capacity, that more of these engineering operations would back themselves to build and design mass-produced GT4, GT3 or TCR cars for the global racing car export market.  |
Yet there were skeptics:
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Originally Posted by Mixer
TCR is stagnant and will never get any better than it is now - which isn't that great. Manufacturers are leaving, some to eTCR which is a whole other thing and I think may not last.
The GT3 move for DTM caused the series to collapse, so those ideas are all literal fantasy.
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GRM securing the deal to build all Peugeot 308 TCRs show the idea of Australian racing car builders exporting to the world market to unequivocally NOT be a fantasy. Great stuff!