Wonderful GT Legacy GT300 at the 2009 Tokyo Auto Display
If you go to auto shows, you know that Subaru always parks . rally car at the entrance to its booth. At international shows, it has typically been . WRC car; at …. shows, it'… Rally Team USA car.
But now there'. no WRC team to promote, so the company had two choices:its Super GT racecar “basedon”/”inspired by” the2010 SubaruLegacy, or the Nurburgring 24 Hours WRX STI.For the Tokyoshow, Subaru chose the former (fitting since the Super GT series is run in Japan and Malaysia), though the Nurburgring STI is also at the show.
The Super GT Legacy ran 3 races in2009in the 300-hp GT300 class (for reference, the Super GT “Nissan GT-.” competes in the GT500 class where the limit is of course 500 hp). Subaru Tecnica International supplies the turbocharged,.1994cc EJ20 boxer four-cylinder engine for the Legacy GT300, along with . six-speed sequential transmission — which drives all four wheels, because it'… Subaru , at least in name, so it has Symmetrical All Wheel Drive. The Japanese company .&DSportdesignedthe chassis for the Super GT Legacy.
The car'. racingfuture is in doubt, though, as Mitsuhiro Matsumoto, director and senior vice president of STI, told journalists,.”Participation in Super GT is not yet decided for 2010.”
Super GT Legacy specs
More photos of the Super GT Legacy and the 2009 Nurburgring 24 Hours STI after the jump (the latter, incidently, makes its permanent home at the STI Gallery at the Subaru dealership in Mitaka, Japan).
Erin Riches,
