New FIA World Touring Car Championship
 

Sounds interesting. This is what Peugeot will be doing after next year, instead of the WRC. Costs are supposed to be substatially less then running a full WRC program. The rumors are that if the cost is significantly less, PSA will funnel the extra money into keeping Citroen in the WRC past 2005.

I wonder if Speed will be showing this.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/4092391.stm

Manufacturers:
Alfa Romeo
BMW
Chevrolet
Ford
Seat
Honda
Peugeot
Brilliance

Calendar:
10 April Monza (Ita)
1 May Magny-Cours (Fra)
15 May Silverstone (GB)
29 May Imola (Ita)
26 June Puebla (Mex)
30 July Spa-Francorchamps (Bel)
28 August Oschersleben (Ger)
18 September Istanbul (Tur)
2 October Valencia (Spa)
20 November Macau (Chn)

Outstanding, I think an world-series Touring championship is outstanding...there are so many incredible touring car championships, it will be cool to see a factory-based series at the top FIA level.

I had to do some searching to figure out who Brilliance is, but I finally found some. They are a Chinese Manufacturer that makes cars for the Chinese market (duh), but they also build and sell BMW 3 and 5 series cars for use within China. But I don't think this is one of the re-skinned 3 series cars, but one of their original cars, powered by a Mitsubishi 2.0L engine and designed by Italdesign.

Sweetness...What Chevy is that? Doesn;t look like anyhting I've seen, not even a Holden...hmm?

That Brilliance GT4 screenshot is hot...those cars are interesting.

Chevrolet Nubria aka Daewoo Nubria.

I read that this choice is coordinated with GM pushing rebadged Daewoo cars as Chevrolet cars in Europe.

I race for TEAM... :brillian:

It looks like the Cobalt.

http://x.wieck.com/pv/WKA/2004/03/31...3150771_pv.jpg