Originally posted by roadRacer
[B]As to why it is called autocross??? I am not sure. In England they have a sport called autocross that has been run for a very long time. It is much more like using cars for a motocross. It is offroad racing on a fairly small dirt road racing course for lack of a better description.
in an issue of European Car i read a couple months ago, they called that rallycross, if we're thinking of the same thing. the cars they used were basically vamped up rally cars making 500-600hp.