Tamiya 24248 - 1/24 Opel Astra V8 Coupe Team Holzer 歐寶 田宮比例模型賽車/跑車 雙星孖星  [24248]

Towards Opel Astra V8 Coupe - Opel Team Holzer

The 2000 period associated with the DTM (German Touring vehicle Championships) delighted European motorsports fans with many fender-to-fender action unfurled by three major vehicle manufactures: Mercedes-Benz, Opel, and Audi. Building with this excitement the 2001 period, the competition structure was changed from two 100km races on the same day to 1 35km super sprint qualifier race, followed by the 100km main competition with mandatory tire modification. Like in the 2000 period, Opel joined eight finely tuned machines in the race. Different improvements were designed to many of these machines including extended wheel bases and modified aerodynamics. Even though the basic kind of these racecars failed to vary significantly from manufacturing form of the Opel Astra, some got large bumper spoilers, over-fenders, side-skirts, rear-wings, alongside race-oriented goodies. But probably the most salient characteristic of this 2001 cars was the gull-wing doorways that exposed and shut via roof-mounted hinges. The machines had been equipped with 460hp outputting 4-liter V8 machines, which transferred capacity to the rear tires via a six-speed sequential transmission. Driving for one of the 3 machines entered by Team Holzer was expert driver Joachim Winkelhock in their vivid orange colored device. Although Opel Team Holzer had a hard time getting noteworthy race outcomes throughout the first 1 / 2 of the summer season, the team&39;s winning possible was revealed when Winlkelhock took 4th place through the fifth competition at Norisring, where in fact the automobiles battled it out on public roads closed to traffic.

Specs & Features

• 1/24 scale, total height: 196mm, total width 81mm. Model replicates device driven by Joachim Winkelhock under Opel Team Holzer.
• Gull-wing style doorways can be efficiently opened and closed despite construction via steel hinges.
• components for propping up gull-wing doorways have been exactly recreated within model.
• Roll-cage and car-interior have now been replicated because of the utmost authenticity.
• Taillights employ clear, clear red, and clear orange components.
• Metal transfer marks are included for grille, emblem, bonnet and door-catch.