The response to Brakim Racing’s Lamborghini rally car was a bit mixed overall. It shouldn’t be, considering that using a vehicle in a manner other than directed has always been a favorite pastime of ours (see also: sled pulling Caprice.) And when BangShifter Chevy Hatin’ Mad Geordie asked what other cars people would like to be thrown around on dirt, how could I not oblige? Look, I like Subarus, Evos and a lot of the current crop of WRC cars, but even at the lower levels of rally racing for every fifteen Subarus you see you might see one “other” make. During a 2010 trip to a rally in The Dalles, Oregon the most impressive rally car ended up being one of my top 10 “f’ing hate them” cars: A later-model Honda CRX, painted olive drab green and driven by someone who didn’t give a flying anything about safety. That CRX stood up to all of the abuse the most violent driver of the weekend could toss at the little Honda and all the car did was comply while singing the song of angry bees at 9,000RPM. At one point, the car was thrown down a 900ft hill, slid sideways into a 90 degree right hander, went in and out of the ditch, and slid through a cattle gate before screaming on. Ok, that CRX gets a pass.

So what car would you choose for the dirt treatment? For me, this is a no-brainer: my favorite Ferrari, the 288 GTO. The GTO’s only reason for existence was because of Group B rally. Ferrari was actually going to go play in Group B with the 288 GTO, which should tell you quite a bit more about how unhinged that series really was. Unfortunately, the only way you will see a GTO driven on dirt in anger is via a Tax The Rich YouTube video, and while they will hoon the hell out of one, the Ferrari is too rare and expensive to really blast down a gravel road WFO in fourth with jumps in it. What say you? A Mustang on dirt tires? A GMC Syclone, with it’s turbocharged V6 and all-wheel drive? Maybe you want to go a bit old-school…how about a Dodge Ramcharger? It won Sno*Drift in 1975. You could even go fully ballistic and build a rig as wild as Roger Norman’s desert-racing Camaro if you’d like! Let us know below!