Very kind of you to say so.... I'm helping bump up the views on this video too - keep watching it back, very well made indeed!

Ha! Thank you

What’s the channel name

@@marty3553 AutoPlas but look at the name on the first reply to my comment as that is the gentleman who owns the car and channel.

" A ferret on meth racing cheetahs" 😂 What a perfect description!

Exactly- I mean I watched it over speakers rather than headphones, but yea. Watching a car KZfaqr having a V6 and a straight cut gearbox screaming in your ear isn’t noise, it’s authenticity. Mic pops or other un-called for distortion might have been an issue, but this, this is just right and proper.

I watched listening with headphones, and there really is no need to apologise for the sound. Maybe a warning instead! 😀 So immersive...

I believe there was some tongue in cheek action going on in that apology. 😁 "Sorry for the noise while we drive this *group B rally car.*"

The only thing missing is the sound of mud and stones rattling around in the wheel arches.

He betters apologizes for leaning on the car and touching the car all the time. I hate when people do that, just don’t touch somebody’s car.

I had a k-series 1.1L, it was a fun little car, and self-lowering when the shocks started losing gas...brilliant on B-roads and would show above 100 on a closed race track. 😁

Now you've experienced what it was like for Chuck Yeager to approach the speed of sound!

Your screaming gearbox was the dropper gear which was notorious. I fixed quite a few by line boring the castings and fitting bronze bearings with improved oil catchers.

I've been at 90 in one once... no shaking though. I think your alignment was off! Or maybe unevenly worn tires. Which is not unusual in a self-lowering hydrogas metro... Even PoS cheap economy cars should track straight if everything's working.

@@thesunreport Was that 100 kph or 100 mph?

Any relation to the John Bowe that drove the Shell Sierra around the same time?

Best rally baby ever . If you had the stones

Many thanks! Although very unwarranted praise. The cars and the owners are the stars and tell the stories, I’m just along for the ride.

That's an interesting thing I've never heard before. 🤔

Correct, and originally John Davenport actually wanted it to be V8 powered. David Wood was developing the V64V while they prototypes had the shorn Rover V8 lump. Rights for the engine were sold to TWR after the world rally programme wrapped up

nd thos e engines eat through their components like there was no tomorrow - no parts available now.

V64V engines had Cosworth DFV internals so they could rev high enough to make comparable power to the turbo rivals.. (presently only half way through but haven't seen it mentioned yet..)

Never ran two turbo's... block was jag v6. Thats where similarities end between xj220. 👍

My rover metro 1.1s was similarly speedy back in the day.

Cheers Dan! An understanding neighbour is a very lucky thing!

One could say that it's just creative reading of the rally rule book. Ford owned Rover and it's a production Ford engine. That's practically a stock motor! 😁

@@AnttiBrax Ford never owned Rover, Land Rover had been split off the old Rover group by BMW and sold to Ford. This happened years after group B rallying. Also, this is technically an MG, which Ford never owned.

@@paulqueripel3493 With that attitude, you would suck at rally. 😉

I was there too. We were Rallycrossing the Leigh Lock and Safe Mini. I could never get enough of seeing Will Gollop (Whitstable Will) launch off the line like a missile. Happy days.

Hey at least it failed on warranty German cars fail 5 minutes after the warranty expires, but with British engineering you can be sure to have all your problems in-warranty.

But much more efficient at transmitting power from one gear to its mate ... 😈

Snap! My ex brother-in-laws mum ran Wills fan club, I've some great memories of him flying round Brands Hatch in his beast!

They certainly were mate, I used to catch about 3 buses to get to Sutton Park from Acocks Green, loved seeing the rally cars

Lucky enough to see all the group B period in rallycross. Awesome time

I never saw matti alamaki with a 205 i can remember he had a delta s4 which was an absolute pig. For me I always loved his yellow 4x4 911 with a 900bhp 962 engine

That’s very kind of you Dave

Is that the Jon Price that did tarmac rallies in a white Manta before the Metro?

@@stevehartland7003 Jon price drove Renault 5 Turbo 1&2's before he moved to Metros.

Canley

@@TheLRider Canley was Triumph, near Coventry, Cowley was Morris near Oxford, now BMW MINI.

@@john1703 Ha ha you're right. I knew it wasn't Crowley.

I remember this on the news when they were being sold off lol.... My father was the proud owner of a standard ur quattro 10V around then or slightly before but remember thinking that this brand new rally car was for sale at around 15K, when the road going audi quattro SPORT was around 50K. Again, perhaps a few years either side! That was when rally driving was utterly incredible and ridiculously exciting but highly dangerous! From memory, the 0 to 60 was 3.4 seconds. Back then, that was phenomenal. Loving the RUNNING COSTS 😅🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 As far as the standard MG metro road going versions at the time lol.... Better off jumping up to the maestro turbo and praying for no rust 🤣😂😂 Strada abarth 130tc was, arguably, the better all rounder imo re dynamics. The good OLD days b4 our current bol...ks of a world 😔👍

Thank you!

No. A 6r4 should never be electric. It's the kinda vehicle that needs to be kept making bang bang noises, not Greta Thomberg noises. Electric cars have their place no doubt. But not here

@@RobsonRoverRepair That's exactly what he said m8

Hrrrrm. Someone find a base stock Metro and put Plaid running gear in it, but no wings...

@@RobsonRoverRepair Greta Thomburg should be drawn and quartered..

Yep 2.3 twin turbo - bonkers! 🚗💨💨

@@AutoplasMetro6R4V6 love your channel, I hope everyone watching subs. Thanks for that soundtrack and evil beast of a car!

@@davekennedy6315 thank you! Glad you enjoy it, we have a lot of fun making the videos… nothing like and professional as The Late Brake Show though!

My blown MT engine is still sitting buried in my parents front garden lol. (It decided to blow a hole in the block just cruising on the motorway.).

The use of the term 'crumpet' alone deserved a like.

Very kind of you thank you! Doing out best to keep it out there and at Cadwell we were just doing our best to keep it on the tarmac 🤦🏻‍♂️

It is on the list Lewis...

My mate has the show car

David Wood was the engineer 👍

obviousy but development has to start somewhere and it started with the rover v8 and evolved from there.

@@theant9821 what evolved from there? The 6R4 engine has nothing to do with the rover v8, the development car had that engine because that was what was available, they developed the chassis, suspension etc and the threw out the rover v8 once the v6 was ready for the finished car.

Wow Larry that is a memory to treasure.

Cacophony is a fitting description

My 3 favourite rally cars are similar to yours. In no order. Mk2 Escort(my 1st car). Impreza group A. 6r4. Just something about them that appeals to me more than other cars.

Thanks!

I see this car from time to time and the way it's driven I wouldn't be at all surprised if one day it kills someone

It certainly did, it was there 10 years until it was sold in 2015.

Car pee!

We aim to please, so thanks for the feedback Mark. 🤘🏽

Thank you! 👍

@@AutoplasMetro6R4V6 Fabulous machine 👍🏻

SU Carburettors. Am I correct? 🤔

As much as i love the 6R4 the T16 would be my choice too, much more useable on the road but still bonkers (and looks amazing), even the Lancia 037 Stradale is no where near as insane as the Metro.

It did indeed. Jaguar bought the rights to the design of V64V engine and resigned parts of it and turbo charged it.

Remember that well, Saturday afternoon Rallycross, World of Sport with Dickie Davis, that car was so powerful (twin Turbo from memory ?) he always had bother keeping the tyres on the wheel rims.

I saw him a good few times at Brands too, my ex brother-in-laws mum ran his fan club!