Havent seen this on this gallery yet so I figured I would share, this is the endurance car used at the 24 hours of Thunderhill race........one beautiful RL!!

 

The car is famous on this part of the board, but some of those pics are new. Thanks for sharing!

 

i've heard the spoon rl has had it's fair share of troubles ... anybody care to chime in on that?

 

First time I have seen a race-version RL, very nice...

 

If you search, you will find links to the articles describing the race and the preparation for the race. The car hit some debris on the track which damaged one of the computers, and the car could only race in some kind of limp home mode. I understand the engine got fried or something.

IIRC, I believe the idea was to test the longevity of the SH-AWD, but ultimately the test failed do to engine problems.

 

The wiring harness on the car failed twice.....

There were a few other things to....

 

2006 was the rough year for the Spoon RL. 2007 was much better mechanically. There are some threads as noted above.

 

seems so weird such a luxury sedan all prepped for racing. You would think they could do a better job on the front mesh and engine bay, red looks like ketchup.

 

Good stuff. Goooood stuff.

I love what they did to this car.

 

hmm....accuratein, maybe its time to convert

 

I wanna lower my rl like that. Think spoon will sel me that front bumper with fog?

 

any vids of this car?

 

 

 

 

Glad to the car is still around. Thought it blew up a while back. Few rod bearings and everything is like new.