Eagle Rally Team ®
While our C0, C1 and C6 cars are all rather experimental or at least unusual, Eagle’s C2-C5 roster consists of modified serial production models, already available on the market for several years. They are also all FFs, obviously.
"A rubber fire screams into the night
I am the master of the asphalt fight"
C2, #214: Eagle 204 Rally '71
This little hatchback definitely sounds faster than it is, at least on a straight road. This is thanks to a high-revving 1.2 boxer-4 engine producing a moderate 80HP in the civilian version. While that’s not a lot, this car likes taking fast asphalt corners on full throttle, and with a bit of helpful oversteer.
For the rally variant, we adjusted the engine to produce 20HP more. Surprisingly, it still gets a good gas mileage, considering all the modifications (upped cam profile, richer fuel mixture, exhaust swap, along other minor changes). The suspension was left almost in its production state, aside from minor reinforcements. This means that the car is rather low, and thus it’s best for driving fast on smooth asphalt, rather than bumpy gravel.
Modifications:
- Stripped interior
- Standard rally safety equipment
- 80HP → 100HP
- Various weight reduction measures
- Reinforced suspension
- Rally lights
- Official Eagle livery
This car is so mediocre
It’s hard to find a defining characteristic
C3, #203: Eagle 203 Rally '68
This is our attempt at making a car that is easy to produce in small, foreign factories - that’s why it’s currently our only model built on a spaceframe. In terms of raw performance, its 1.6 I4 engine also saw a 20HP increase to its power, much like the 1.2 B4 in Eagle 204.
This car can basically be considered to be a jack of all trades - medium power, medium class, medium suspension, medium weight, medium steering, medium everything. The only field in which is shines is probably… space taken by advertisements. But we’re still counting on it to be a reliable and dependable vehicle, and something like a benchmark for all our other cars.
Modifications:
- Stripped interior
- Standars rally safety equipment
- 100HP → 120HP
- Various weight reduction measures
- Rally suspension
- Rally lights
- Official Eagle livery (mostly ads)
"Do you think you can survive…
The top?"
C4, #604: Eagle 604 Rally '70
The top dog. It’s our most recent full-sport model and it shows it. A screaming inline-5 engine generating 180HP (in the rally version) speaks for itself. Basically, the 604 is quick, loud, nimble, oversteery, and it likes to spin its wheels.
Modifications (?):
- The interior is already stripped, from the factory
- It already has (sport) safety equipment, from the factory
- 162HP->180HP
- It doesn’t even have wipers (weight reduction)
- The suspension is easily raised, you guessed it, that’s also a production feature
- Rally lights
- We really hope it won’t rain
- Official Eagle livery
"When its freezing, when its burning
Hold your black car, let it go far"
C5, #303: Eagle 303 Rally '65
A family wagon. But not your normal family wagon - this one’s a premium wagon, and it has a pretty comfortable suspension and a rather lazy 3.0 inline-6 engine, producing a moderate 165HP. Good for going fast on bumpy roads and hauling equipment for half of the team.
Modifications:
- Stripped interior
- Standard rally safety equipment
- Minor engine tweaks and muffler removal
- Fake hood scoop
- Rally lights (not fake)
- Official Eagle livery (no orange this time, only >>SHINY AND CHROME<<)
And that is all. On a side note, I really had a lot of fun designing and testing those cars for dozens of hours. While my triple victory from '52 is a score hard to beat, I’m still counting on most of my cars to succesfully go through the eliminations. After that I’ll just enjoy the competition regardless of the results. Thank you to everyone for participating, and especially to @Private_Miros for being the rally director. Best of luck, and I hope we’ll all meet on the main 3 stages.
