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MG peilt interesse met MG3 Trophy Championship Concept

MG overweegt een raceversie van de MG3 uit te brengen als er genoeg interesse is. Deze Trophy Championship Concept is een voorproefje van zo'n raceversie.




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Een enorme achtervleugel, een nieuwe front splitter, andere dempers en veren, een differentieel en 17 inch lichtmetalen wielen. De buitenkant van de MG3 Trophy Championshop Concept ziet er behoorlijk raceklaar uit. Onderhuids is hij dat ook, want door de 1,5 liter te voorzien van een turbo, andere zuigers, een nieuwe nokkenas en een andere ECU levert de auto 101 pk en 124 Nm méér dan standaard. Nu zit er dus 207 pk en 260 Nm in de kleine hatchback. Het interieur is compleet gestript en voorzien van een rolkooi. Ook is iedere vorm van geluidsdemping verwijderd.

Link naar het originele artikel: http://www.telegraaf.nl/autovisie/autov ... ept__.html

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Autocar over dezelfde auto:

MG3 hot hatch racing concept unveiled

One-off MG 3 racing car created to highlight capabilities of MG's UK engineering division in Birmingham



MG Motor has unveiled its hottest-ever MG 3 in the shape of a race-bred concept with a retuned engine, producing 204bhp and 192lb ft of torque.

The new MG 3 Trophy Championship concept was unveiled during the manufacturer's 90th anniversary celebrations at Silverstone last weekend.

The hatchback – developed on the current MG 3 road car platform by a team of specialist MG engineers, led by vehicle engineering specialist Adrian Guyll – was built for two reasons.

Primarily, it is a toe-in-the-water exercise to gauge interest in a club racing version of the MG 3. However, MG says the car also "highlights in-house engineering, design and calibration capabilities at SMTC UK in Longbridge".

SMTC is the European Design and Technical Centre that's located alongside MG Motor UK at the Longbridge site in Birmingham. SMTC and MG are both owned by parent company, SAIC Motor; the largest automotive company in China.

The outputs of the 1.5-litre, turbocharged VTi Tech engine are 105bhp and 100lb ft in the standard MG 3 road car.

The MG 3 Trophy Championship concept also gets a limited-slip differential, a fully adjustable MacPherson strut front suspension set-up with bespoke rear anti-roll bar, an adjustable front splitter and twin-plain adjustable rear spoiler. The body shell has undergone a weight optimisation programme.

Factory MG BTCC racers Jason Plato and Sam Tordoff drove the MG 3 Trophy Championship around Silverstone during last weekend's event.

Link: http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/motor ... t-unveiled

En een nieuwsbericht van ARonline:

News : Race-spec MG3 Trophy revealed at MG90



MG Motor UK wowed the crowds celebrating the marque’s 90th Anniversary during the MG Car Club-promoted MG90 event at Silverstone last weekend by revealing the fully race-prepared MG3 Trophy.

The racing version of MG’s B-segment MG3 supermini has been developed at MG Birmingham by a seven-man SAIC Motor UK Technical Centre (SMTC UK) team led by Vehicle Engineering Specialist Adrian Guyll with four primary objectives, namely to provide a current product with which to continue MG’s Club-level racing tradition, to demonstrate SMTC UK’s in-house engineering capabilities, to illustrate the potential of the MG3′s platform and to evaluate possible MG3 product upgrades.

The race-ready MG3 Trophy features a turbocharged version of the production model’s 1.5 VTi-Tech (NSE) engine which develops 201bhp and 192ft lbs of torque. However, the 1.5T NSE engine has a new cylinder block, a free-flowed cylinder head, billet aluminium pistons, a re-profiled camshaft and a re-engineered flywheel. The turbocharger is set to 1.0 bar while other modifications include the addition of a high-flow induction system, a bespoke Janspeed exhaust system, a limited slip differential and a full race-spec clutch.

The MG3 Trophy’s bodyshell has undergone a full lightening programme without compromising structural rigidity while chassis modifications include the adoption of fully-adjustable MacPherson strut front suspension and a bespoke rear anti-roll bar.

The standard MG3′s brakes have been upgraded to an all-disc brake system – the ’3 Trophy features four piston race calipers and 330mm cross-drilled rotors at the front and two piston race calipers with 280mm solid rotors at the rear together with a front-to-rear proportioning valve. The ’3 Trophy runs on Team Dynamics Pro Race 17in wheels with 205 620 17 slick or wet tyres.

Aerodynamic modifications include the fitment of an adjustable front splitter and a twin-plane adjustable rear spoiler while safety features include the addition of an MSA-approved roll cage, a race seat with a five-point safety harness, a fully-plumbed Lifeline fire extinguisher and a quick release steering wheel.

The Development Team at SMTC UK reportedly hopes that the MG3 Trophy might be used as the basis of an affordable, entry-level One-Model Saloon Car Championship – something akin to the MINI Challenge or the Renault UK Clio Cup or, perhaps, a step below those two Championships on the ladder to the British Touring Car Championship.

Interestingly, the latest Technical Regulations for the MG Car Club’s flagship MG Trophy Championship already include a Class E MG 3 Invitation Class in addition to the current Class B/MG ZR 190, Class C/MG ZR 170 and Class D/MG ZR 160 structure…

Link: http://www.aronline.co.uk/blogs/ar-cars ... aled-mg90/

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