How Much Does A Group B Metro 6R4 Rally Car Cost To Run?!

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How Much Does A Metro 6R4 Cost To Run?! A brief overview of running costs with a 'cost per mile' calculation for driving a Metro 6R4
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0:00 Intro
0:27 Quick Overview On Running A 6R4
1:13 Diff Costs
2:00 Gearbox Costs
2:35 Engine Costs
3:20 Cost Per Mile Calculation
4:11 Full Rally Season Costs
4:40 Running Costs Of Alternative Engines
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@dieselbushcraft1299 2 года назад

Excellent and certainly out of my league but doesn’t stop me loving and admiring them. I take my hat off to you Dan.

@AutoplasMetro6R4V6 2 года назад

Thanks, I wouldn’t fancy running one with the original engine as much as we do our car.. you’d need to regularly rob a bank! 😂

@enwins 2 года назад

Scary but enlightening. Realistically you need several hundred thousand pounds to buy and run one. It's even more of a credit to you that you keep yours out there for people to see

@AutoplasMetro6R4V6 2 года назад

Cheers Neil, that cost for the original engines is just huge isn’t it!!

@enwins 2 года назад

@@AutoplasMetro6R4V6 yes, but look at it as a purpose designed motorport engine built in very limited numbers and compare it with larger production Lamborghini and Ferrari engines and it is comparable, even good value

@AutoplasMetro6R4V6 2 года назад

@@enwins good value…. That’s not something you hear said about a 6R4 very often!

@enwins 2 года назад

@@AutoplasMetro6R4V6 it's far rarer than a top end supercar or even a hyper car, yet similar running costs and more a car of the people than they could ever be. I love supercars, but someone gets out of a Group B car and the reaction isn't jealousy or assumptions about character.

@AutoplasMetro6R4V6 2 года назад

@@enwins that’s a good point… people don’t make the same assumptions with the Metro as they would with a Supercar

@MOSSFEEN Год назад

The late great John Price was some man for the 6R4

@AutoplasMetro6R4V6 Год назад

He certainly was….. incredibly talented

@AutoplasMetro6R4V6 2 года назад

…. Hope you find this one interesting!

@markburgess8603 2 года назад

Always my dream car since I was a kid watching Group B back in the day. The running maintenance price tag really did make my jaw drop. Perhaps cheaper to run a Veyron haha. Informative video and many thanks for doing it.

@AutoplasMetro6R4V6 2 года назад

You're welcome Mark. Glad you enjoyed it. I can't imagine a Veyron is cheap to run but you might be right!!

@phil7301 2 года назад

You have an original car, with traceable history so having a Jag engine in doesn't matter to me at all . The main fact is that she's one of the 200 ! Not a replica, Thanks for the video Dan 👍

@AutoplasMetro6R4V6 2 года назад

Thanks Phil, I feel I got lucky with the Jag engine when you look at the cost of running the original too

@LewisCollard 2 года назад

If you didn't have the Jag engine I probably would not have met your car at Telford (hi!), and I doubt I'd have ever seen a 6R4 outside of a museum. Much better that there's at least one out there actually being used even if some imaginary originality points are being lost. Cheers!

@AutoplasMetro6R4V6 2 года назад

Cheers Lewis, hopefully see you back at Telford again this year!? We want to keep the car out on events as long as we can, it would be such a shame for them to vanish completely.

@LewisCollard 2 года назад

@@AutoplasMetro6R4V6 I hope I will! :)

@jimclements3190 2 года назад

Great insight into running this brilliant little monster,,at the end of the day running a Jag engine is a great way of cutting costs .

@AutoplasMetro6R4V6 2 года назад

Cheers Jim, our car was converted when we got it and we’re quite thankful with the costs of the V64V engine!

@jimclements3190 2 года назад

@@AutoplasMetro6R4V6 cool! Just a side thought what road tyres do you use?? Something exotic or cheap and cheerful 😅

@AutoplasMetro6R4V6 2 года назад

@@jimclements3190 For the road we use Toyo's as we just do a few little trips and of course for the MOT. For track/stage use we use sticky soft moulded slicks, formerly Dunlops but cuerrntly we have Kuhmo's.

@jimclements3190 2 года назад

@@AutoplasMetro6R4V6 Ah, ok thanks Dan.🤔

@gtisid 2 года назад

its mad the cost of stuff today, they seemed 2 a penny even in clubman rallying back in the 90s and then in rallycross their seemed to be loads of them. But as you say there were only ever 200 made and i have probably seen 20 of them in my life i wonder where they are now? i know one thing if i heard one a couple of miles away id know what it was.

@AutoplasMetro6R4V6 2 года назад

Yes once Group B was banned they were selling them off really cheap and they were used all over the place for a long time, loads of rallies had multiples of them on the entry list. A large number of them still exist, but most of them hide in garages now sadly. This distinctive sounds was what made them special I think, you know what they are before they arrive and that certainly stuck in my head from being a child until I got really lucky and ended up owning one.

@fasdiablo 2 года назад

Wow, thats some monster costs !! . . . Don't blame you for running a Jag engine, although I always thought yours was an original, Just curious, do you still have the original ???

@AutoplasMetro6R4V6 2 года назад

Cheers…. I bought the car with the engine swapped, I wish I had the original but I would be scared to run it!

@goncalomoura8156 2 года назад

Just for curiosity, what's the difference in power between the original engine and the Jag engine in your state of tune? Anyway, even though it is a shame you dont have an original engine, for running the car, I absolutely would go the same route as you did, even if it was a no cost object! We really dont want to blow such special and rare engines, better keep them preserved for very special occasions and shows.

@AutoplasMetro6R4V6 2 года назад

The original engine was 250 bhp in Clubman form or they can be converted to upto a maximum of 410bhp in International specification, most ran at around 370/380bhp. We are running 360bhp with 450nm of torque so although we are down a bit on power we have quite a bit more torque, so we are as close as we can get really. The car was already converted to the Jag engine when we bought it, so it wasn't a conversion we did, however it certainly means it is more usable so we are making the most of it.

@WestfieldFreshAir 2 года назад

What rev limit are you running your engine to? On another note I've seen one with a Honda 4 cylinder engine, made sense to me to not run an original engine, even though they sound so great.

@AutoplasMetro6R4V6 2 года назад

Yes I have seen the rear wheel drive Honda powered replica, lovely price of engineering, sadly doesn’t have the unique 6R4 sound. We are running 8000 as the Rev limit on our Jaguar engine

@WestfieldFreshAir 2 года назад

@@AutoplasMetro6R4V6 Yours certainly sounds authentic, I wasn't aware it wasn't original until you said having heard it. 8,000 is enough to play with as well :-)

@AutoplasMetro6R4V6 2 года назад

@@WestfieldFreshAir cheers, it’s pretty close sounding, and similar power output so we are trying to be as authentic as we can be

@hansmatthia32 2 года назад

Same same 100 a mile - any damage 40-50 secs = broke

@LandersWorkshop 2 года назад

You might as well own an Italian of Japanese sports car with those crazy prices.

@AutoplasMetro6R4V6 2 года назад

I’m a rally car fan so a sports car isn’t for me. We still rally this car!

@andrewmcgraa5761 2 года назад

I wouldnt pay for the servicing....wouldnt need too...as long as i can get in my front room...

@AutoplasMetro6R4V6 2 года назад

That what we all want to do but it is nice to see some out there being used.

@andrewmcgraa5761 2 года назад

@@AutoplasMetro6R4V6 sure is...and thank you for doing that. We live in West Cornwall and do have one attend the TSH Stages down here which is good to see. Cant think of his name

@AutoplasMetro6R4V6 2 года назад

Awesome, I’m glad to I get to see one out still!