Wulff Presto B5

The **Wulff Presto B5** is a Trophy Tourer appearing in MotorStorm: Return to the Wild. Upon unlocking the Presto Nova at Rank 8, the player is free to convert their Presto into a Presto B5, at a price of $75,000.

## Details

Seeing Nova, Kompresseur and Tenrai were the dominant manufacturers in the BTCC, Wulff wanted to develop a sports sedan that would beat them all and take home the 1998 constructors' titles, seeing Monarch had their Bullworth trophy tourer, and Logan having both of their respective touring cars, so on so forth. In a collaboration with Beelzebuggy and even Wombat, a special bi-turbo 2.2L Inline Four was placed into the engine bay, giving the car a hefty 300 brake horsepower.

Before the car was built, the design was known simply as the *D8 Projekt Mit Doppelter Turbolader* or the *D8 Double Turbocharged Project.* Before collabing with Beelzebuggy and Wombat, a Twin turbocharged 2.8L DOHC V6 was planned, which would've given it at least some semblance of relation to the road going Prestos at the time, seeing they were powered by bi-turbo 2.7L V6s. However, with the V6 powerplant, it was nearly impossible to make it produce only 300 horsepower, as the car produced 352 brake horsepower. The TOCA had done an inspection on the car, informing Wulff that at least 200 road going versions of the car had to be made, to which Wulff developed a special trim of the Presto known as the Presto B5 RS, which barely even had any relationship with the Presto B5, seeing it was powered by a bi turbo 1.7L Inline Four, that produced 230 brake horsepower, and had a special aero kit, that was shorter than the Presto B5's, with about 30 of them having the twin turbocharged 2.8L V6, and three having a Bi turbo 2.9L Inline Five that produced 381 brake horsepower, and none of them having the 2.2L Inline Four, to keep the powerplant a secret from the TOCA.

When it came to the transmission and drivetrain, there was a six speed manual, fitted to a double plated medium weight racing clutch, and various other transmission parts like a special driveline made by Capstan. The drivetrain was four wheel drive having 40% of the power going to the rear wheels and about 60% going to the front wheels, with a fifty to fifty brake bias. Despite the car shared the same moniker as the Presto Nova, it barely had any if not almost *zero* relations to the road going sports sedan, seeing the car was much lighter, had a different powertrain, drivetrain, and having a manual transmission rather than a paddleshift gearbox like the Presto road car, seeing paddelshift gearboxes were outlawed, due to Logan's 460D turbo wagon dominating the 1996-1998 BTCC seasons, seeing it had a paddleshift gearbox.

The car was set to race in the 1998 British Touring Car Championship, against Logan, Tenrai, Monarch, Italia, Mirage, Maxi and Ozutsu. The results were quite clear that the Presto was able to easily dominate its rivals, and put up beyond what could be recognized as a fight against Tenrai's Xylem VI and Xylem V, as well as Monarch's Bullworth.

It was said that about twenty prototypes were known to exist alongside the twelve racing versions, one of which actually being a road going version with the 2.2L Inline Four, and the others having varying powerplants ranging from four cylinders to a bi-turbosupercharged 4.0L V8 from a prototype of the Wulff Angelica, which was the definitive Wulff Trophy Tourer from 1986 to 1990, until Nova had unseated them with their Tschuss trophy tourer, which had dominated from 1991 to 1995, when it was then beat by Logan's 415S, and eventually 460D Turbo. Long story short, every manufacturer in the BTCC was outraged when finding out that Wulff had fooled the TOCA inspectors, leading to the Presto having to carry a 100 pound weight bias as a penalty for lying to the TOCA inspectors. Even with the extra weight it had to carry, the car still went on to beat Logan and Tenrai once again through 1999, before officially being outlawed in 2000.

The cars were eventually put on display in the Wulff vault, in Cologne, Germany, until MotorStorm's Pandrosia festival, where touring cars were approved to be raced by the MotorStorm Race Authority, to which Wulff had sold seven of their Presto B5s to MotorStorm for 100,000 USD.

## Gallery

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## Trivia

* The Presto B5 is evidently based upon an Audi B5 A4 Quattro super touring car that raced in the 1997-1999 BTCC Seasons, despite it has the same headlights as a Mitsubishi Lancer V, the taillights of a 22B Subaru STI and the front grille of an Opel Astra V8 DTM race car.