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Question of the Week

Here are some of TG readers’ wildest race and road car combinations

From F1 cars with hatchback interiors, to Porsche Le Mans winners teemed with Alcantara and switchgear, this week certainly threw up some interesting ideas

Published: 19 Apr 2024

Last week, we asked which car engine and body pairing you lot wanted to merge. This week we wanted to know which road car’s interior and race car’s exterior you'd do the same thing with, and the suggestions have been… interesting. Yeah let's go with 'interesting'.

We kick off with Karol Jalowy’s idea: “I can’t think about my dream combination without thinking about what would've been the pinnacle of fast and comfortable. In that regard, perhaps the most extreme and fastest race car ever is the Porsche 919 Evo. I’d take that and add the cabin from a modern 911 Turbo S.”

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Alex Bourne suggested the “mechanicals of a Panoz Esperante GTR-1 with a Rolls-Royce Phantom’s interior”, while MJC opted for “a Radford Type 62-2 with the classic interior of the Overfinch Heritage Range Rover”. Both are brilliantly wild suggestions, but are they quite… wild enough?

Shay D thinks not and goes with a McLaren F1 GTR that’s kitted out with the cockpit of… an F16 fighter jet. The reason is actually quite logical: “It’d work mint with the centre driving position.” Credit where it’s due.

Imola wondered what would happen if you “dump an S-Class interior into an F1 car”, while Teabag Towers went one better and dreams of “a turbocharged Eighties Formula One car in 1,500bhp qualifying trim with a Nissan Micra’s interior”. This is the kind of out-the-box thinking TopGear.com respects.

Let’s somewhat bring it back to the realms of reality, and spare a thought for Von Blade’s brilliant response: “On British roads, you need good suspension, so the oily bits and body of the Audi Quattro Sport S1 in Michele Mouton Pikes Peak colour scheme. For the interior, we want plush but functional. It must be the Porsche 991 Turbo, the last one with proper controls for the air con instead of annoying touch ones. Job done.” Concise and straight to the point, we like it.

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That’s all from our latest Question of the Week roundup, readers. The next one drops on Monday, and may or may not involve a trio of obscure Noughties supercars.

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