oldguy1957's Duplicate the Rally Car Budget Rider

Your brother-in-law, Pete, has just started a new career as a Rally
Race car driver. He bought a Rally car, but then went on a short vacation. He
decided to leave his car with YOU. You promised not to touch it, but couldn’t
resist taking if for a little spin on the back-roads near your home. Unfortunately,
on your little joy-ride, you wrapped his car around a tree, totally destroying
it, except for the wheels.

By coincidence, your family car is the same make and model. You run to
the bank and take out a second mortgage on your house and come home with $50,000
(credits). Then you go to work.

So here’s the rules:

1. Pick an unmodded Rally car from your garage (or buy a new one if you
so choose). Run it around the ring. Do any tweaking you want. Get your
best time with it which will be used as a target time.
2. Find a production car (in your garage, or buy one) that is as close
as you can find to the production model of the Rally car you chose. It doesn’t
have to be the exact year or model. Same make and body style is good enough
(Pete’s not very smart as long as the car looks the same, he won’t notice it’s not
the original).
3. Not counting the price of the car or the R1’s (the tyres survived
the crash) you have 50,000 credits to get your family car to equal your target
time on the ‘Ring’. You, of course will have to buy the tyres, but they won’t be
counted against the budget. As far as I know, all Rally cars come on R1’s. If
you find one that comes on something else, just be sure you buy the same tyres
for your family car.
4. No Supercharges. No Nitrous. Other than that, go nuts and do
whatever you want.
5. Use, or don’t use driving aids, as you choose. But you must use the
same ASM and TCS settings on both cars.

Now, the objective for this is not so much to make a family car that
can kick the butt of it’s Rally model, but instead, to find the most
family-car-ish car that can equal the performance of it’s Rally Car equivalent, using only 50,000 cr.