{"id":17889,"date":"2025-01-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/?p=17889"},"modified":"2025-01-03T10:06:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T13:06:00","slug":"top-5-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/03\/top-5-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 – 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Oh well, there goes 2024… You know the the expression “time flies”<\/em>? I’m certain you already heard it. However, trust me, it only acquires meaning after you reach a certain age. And yes, I’m already over that age. The year came and went and here am I writing a new Top 5<\/strong> list. The year of 2024 was a bit rough, with few new models. Specially in terms of Le Mans cars. It started out slow, totally stopped by mid-year and only got going in the second semester. There were months that I didn’t get a single new model…\ud83d\ude44 Even so, as of this writing, the W-143 Garage is at 560<\/mark><\/strong> models. It was a slim year, however good enough to make the Top 5 Models of 2024 <\/strong>list (in chronological order):<\/p>\n\n\n

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1985 Volkswagen LT 45 LWB \u201cHB Audi Rally Assistance\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

1\ufe0f\u20e3 First things first: even to me it sounds a bit weird to post a van<\/em> in a Top 5 list. Nonetheless, Ixo did a heckuva job on the model and it looks FANTASTIC with my Quattro S1 E2 towed behind. As I said before, a shame Ixo doesn’t also make Le Mans’ service vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n

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1992 Lancia Delta HF Integrale Evo #4<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

2\ufe0f\u20e3 This one is easy to justify: GRAIL MODEL, period. The Delta is one of my all-time favorite cars, and a rally version, from Spark? Puh-leeze, just take my money.<\/p>\n\n\n

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2023 Toyota GR Yaris Rally1 Hybrid #37<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

3\ufe0f\u20e3 Another<\/em> rally car? And a Toyota <\/em>\ud83e\udd28?!? As I’m certain you noticed by now, I’m always<\/em> complaining about dull liveries. Yeah, those bland, flavorless and boring red-white-black-silver corporate affairs that big manufacturers insist for their cars. And here you have a works car<\/em> from Toyota (yes, TOYOTA!) with a cool off-the-wall livery. Awesome!<\/p>\n\n\n

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2023 Porsche 911 RSR-19 #56 \u201cRexy\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

4\ufe0f\u20e3 Rexy: a Porsche painted as a green T-Rex racing at La Sarthe. The coolest Le Mans livery of all times? If not, in my humble opinion certainly one of the Top 5. No doubt, like the Pink Pig or the Calder BMW, one of the greatest.<\/p>\n\n\n

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1951 Porsche 356\/2 SL \u201cGm\u00fcnd Coupe\u201d #46<\/strong><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

5\ufe0f\u20e3 This one is also very easy to explain: the first Porsche that won at Le Mans. With the 356 Gm\u00fcnd Coupe, Porsche began it’s long relation with La Sarthe. And finally, in the second semester of 2024 Spark released their version of the car. Another case of take-my-money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh well, there goes 2024… You know the the expression “time flies”? I’m certain you already heard it. However, trust me, it only acquires meaning after you reach a certain age. And yes, I’m already over that age. The year came and went and here am I writing a new Top 5 list. The year … Continue reading “Top 5 – 2024”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collectors-corner","category-miscellaneous","category-model-review"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17889"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18132,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17889\/revisions\/18132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}