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Originally Posted by marcosgt
Jaguar were independent when they went to Le Mans and they DID use an engine CLEARLY identifiable as developed from the road V12 (ignore what happened with the V6 and Cosworth later...).
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Using an engine from your range of road cars is very unusual - no, almost unique. Porsche didn't for their prototypes, Peugeot didn't, Toyota didn't - and Audi didn't. In fact, the Bentley was originally intended to use a variant of the W12, until they realised what a disaster it would have been.. So using that as a criticism of the CAR (again, read the title of the thread) is misguided, as is judging its ability on whether the fans took to it. "Worst car" can only mean the car least worthy of winning Le Mans, and on that basis the Bentley can't figure in this poll, because of its reliability and outright speed.
IMO...