Tim Allen's Ford RS200 - Jay Leno's Garage

It hurts when I go like that, hey, don't do that, thanks, but in here, this is not a capable tram, you have to give it, you know, to get it out of gear like that and I think it has two plates in the clutch, it's a racing clutch, whatever that means, I don't know, I don't know what the AP clutch is on this thing, what's the benefit? I don't know, let's sleep on a high speed jet I don't know, it's like anything else, you can, you can make it do whatever you want normally, you're very expert at this, you have it, you know it right away, you found the car, well, you know , I always drive something different every day, so don't get used to it, it doesn't occur to me that it should be like that, but I appreciate you saying the same thing with me.

I get lazy and drive something like the Plaid because it does everything at a b c plus B minus level. well put together, it's faster than anything I have and boring, it's comfortable but like an Ikea piece of furniture, it's kind of a cool boring board, it hits very well, yes, multi-link suspension with twin shock absorbers on all four wheels. Modulations and highways are nothing compared to this, so you can imagine that on a dirt road, this thing would go sideways in the dirt. I know you see yourself doing this all the time. I almost think the equivalent would be an SRX or an STI.

Subarus, do they still make them well? You know, my little rocket, the Gordon Murray car, the red car, yeah, the water pump doesn't start until 3500 RPM. You would make a good rally driver. You know where this thing runs. Oh, this thing is. Great, it's a completely different car above the big five, like I said, its crash wasn't at slow speeds, it has very little effect, so when they had to slow down in rallies, other cars with the rev range They were shorter, still. it had a lot so I never put it on the race track it was on its okay it loves being off road that's what it was built for it reminds me of that Shelby you that 350 you gotta hold on to that yeah yeah it really does you need to concentrate driving there the same with that, but this you are doing very well, it doesn't feel like a 33 year old car, no what a 40 year old car, yes there is nothing like this car and no I don't do anything like that, everyone those, like I said, are horsepower for you because I'm looking at the other one.

I am fascinated by rally cars. The other one is like I said, through wrif, wrxi or something, it's 350. a little bit of horsepower with a pancake engine with them is that they drive light, I really see how this would be a lot of fun on a dirt road oh , I love how that combination of a jeep is, that stability of a four-by-four, but it has the quality of a race car, pavement boy, what a great engine. Well, you've found the sweet spot. I can't imagine it. The competition was 580 horsepower. This thing is amazing at 250. Well the other one really would.

What I like to drive is that Peugeot in the Renault, the one that kicked this thing, I couldn't even keep up with it and then you're doing this on a dirt road with people standing right here, it was a colossal mistake of course. tragedy, all those people died in '86 in Portugal. I feel like a gravedigger. I mean, it was because the only reason anyone could own one of these is because of that tragedy. Yes, it reminds me of someone who told me about the early days of Can-Am. Yes, those cars are faster than today's race cars, yes, with unlimited horsepower, you just had to have two seats and a spare tire, you know what you're doing?

Once you pick it up you know it's good and once it warms up you're good to go. you know it's okay, I said where it was, it's the Tower, you know that makes the top end worth it. I mean all the fun you get from that top end, you'd put up with it if it didn't have that then it would be a real pain, but the nice thing about a car like this when you're on a road like this in California where you don't know if you're going to crash with a bump you just hit the bump and keep going, you actually aim for the bump yeah. that's why you point to the funnel if we were in our Ford CD GT, there are livable with respect to this car, but you're finding everything.

I said that the lack of torque in the mid and low range was its Achilles heel it really makes me want to drive the Peugeot or the Renault, whatever they compete with and I don't know if they had to create the same tram version, it's just one thing about us, probably not, that means there was a Renault, no that's European so they had a rally car version of that in friends once you add a low revving Bill boy, don't worry, you know, just keep it up about six Seven Grand, you know in a lot of ways, it's more fun than a lot of sports cars because with the California highway you're always afraid of breaking the car somehow on the road, you know, whereas this thing That's what it's built for and I said, what if there's any modern car, even from '75 to now, any kind of car that has anything? like this would have to be custom made or like I told you China Worth or Oli Bronco yes, the goalkeeper Bronco reminded me that it could work like a Swiss army knife of cars, it could do everything right, it could go off the road in winter summer and it didn't bother, no matter what kind of road condition, the chassis, yeah, my neighbor owns that one Bronco, it's cool, it just sold, right?, but I was curious because no one had ever made a street version of a car like that, yes, these SUVs?

Do you know how fun that is? You can use full power all the time and it really is a more than adequate amount of power. You know a lot of the hypercars and supercars you buy. No, you need them. Yeah, it's more power than you need and you can't really push it to the limit, whereas this you can take it straight to Red Lion and still go pretty fast because you see where their genius was, yeah, chassis design, I don't know. about ergonomics, no, I don't know the others who want, yes, the Peugeot was really cool looking, as was the Renault, they are both really cool looking cars, the cool part is letting me drive it, that's it, I think the real Gene. he's the race car for real world driving, exactly, also begs the question what he was thinking.

When racing cars are needed, they teach us a lot about passenger cars, we learn a lot about how to make a car by pushing everything with normal cars. It's never been a rally ever translated even though this is the real world going fast down a dirt road what is the passenger equivalent of this car I don't know but it's surprising to me that it's never caught on here because this is exactly what Americans do. weekend in a Bronco, well the Bronco is not if you drop the Bronco and put dual coils on all the wheels like that, just yeah, I wanted to do an Oley.

I always wanted to make that car, I don't remember. I'm just throwing out names. I thought it was China, it was worth making the chassis. I'm not sure, but it's a chrome Molly chassis, there are two of them, if you look, if you took the body, it's not a Bronco, it's a Bronco body on something. Just like this is not a Ford I think this is one of the most fun cars ever driven. It's really great. I just like it because I'm not worried about damaging it on the road. You know, you know the Ford GT without it. saying the McLaren you're driving so smoothly because you're afraid of breaking constantly worried and I said Ford GT.

I just went back to that, which is why I'm doing that H3 Alpha that doesn't quite have it. Well, their chassis is serious, you really have to drive that long to warm them up enough so that everything is no longer so sensitive at low RPM, but imagine if you had that torque curve to be up to that point. and I tell you that this is the twin cam. I don't know if you put bigger pistons in it. I don't know how to make it so that it has more horsepower throughout the rev range and I don't understand it because I don't know Transmissions, what is the advantage of this double clutch here?

Works fine, slower speeds. If you wanted to combine this with a tram, you would have to modify it a bit. They didn't care, they just had to do Street. versions, this is still the race car, I don't think there is any difference, but next time I talk to you I want to know if there is one that is very expensive right now, that is the 300 horsepower Subaru engine that is supposedly . kick assets like this, it's not as compliant, it's still a little bit narrower, it doesn't have any of that, it's still very compliant, well all this travel is what makes the suspension reasonably comfortable, yeah, because you never bottom out , you never bottom out and then it's uh, this obvious question to me is why are there dual coilovers on all four wheels, what does that give you, that they don't do it on anything else, well, the fact that I think you're traveling to such speed, well, you must remember this.

The car is 33 years old. Imagine how far the suspension has come since it was built. I don't think I have Jay. I don't think so. I think this is the state of the art for this. Nobody needed this again. Well, Pam, thanks for bringing this up. This is why it's really a fast anchor, you know, Taylor has great taste in cars, from early 409 Chevys to things like this, supercars, a real petrol head, Tim, thanks my friend, you were able to try it out and , now, Tim, you're building. a car on YouTube, what is it? It's a very long process electric hot rod, an old Detroit 34 Vicky that we've redone and is almost ready to ride.

It's on my YouTube channel. It's called The Vic. In my uh, I choose the Vic. Victoria is so where do they go? What did the direction give us? Tim Allen What is YouTube channel? What is the name of your YouTube channel? It has to be my name I guess it sounds horrible It has to be his name It's not your name It's okay, anyway I'll give you my name later, you'll have to dub it or something, so the name is fine. I'll show you the name, there you go, that's the name, just click on it, but right now we're in the middle of Vic.

It's been a five-year process. I've been to it many times, but I would really film. We're filming different shops putting them together to show you when they show you how cars are made on TV. We'll show you how long it lasts. you really need to become a foreigner