Royal FSR/FRR 1.0

In 1969, Royal's Super Miara was shoved out of the picture for good. The 1969 Calvinator Model C Lauraville from the previous year was kicking butt and was moved to the CRM division cause it had a 500+ HP Warrior Engine kickin' butt and taking names.

The Miara was also seeing a downfall in sales, and in 1971, production ended. However, in 1969, the Royal Design team saw that gas prices were slowly rising, and they knew a gas crisis was coming. They quickly got to work at making a tiny hatchback Miara for the next gen, one powered by a tiny Fuel Injected inline 4 (the Miara was already fuel injected in 1968, but it was sorta weak and unreliable). But the word Miara was now being associated with slow, which is ironic because this was Royal's Race Car before Calvinator released the Miara Model C in 1955.

The car was named the FSR, which is short for Freakin' Sport Ready, only they didn't say Freakin'. It was originally going to be called FTR, or Freakin' Tunin' Ready, but there was a problem, it sounded lame, and there was a terrorist organization at the time that used that same abbreviation. It was powered by a transverse inline 4 cranking out 105 BHP, and had a top speed of 101 miles per hour. That's some good use of horse power in 1970. The FSR, however, took FOREVER to reach 60mph from stand still because it only had 110 LBFT of Torque.

Then in 1979, Royal introduced a similar car based on the FSR 1980 Concept called the FRR GT-I, or Freakin' Race Ready. This time, the car had 231 BHP. It was FAST. The new FSR came out the next year with an upgraded inline 4, and had over 200 ponies crammed under the hood. But Gen 2 ended in 1985 with the announcement of the 1987 Royal Miara, which never came.

In 1989, the new FSR SP and FRR GT-II came out, and the FRR GT--II had over 460 BHP this time around because its engine wasn't an RI4 or RI6 from Royal Engine Division, but rather a FREAKIN' Calvinator Racing Machines's CI4. It had a top speed of 180 mph. It was REAL close to beating the 1968-74 CRM Model C R Warrior, and it had an inline 4. Then the GT-II F came out in 1990 (you can guess what the F stands for) and beat the Warrior with a top speed of 196 mph. It also had a 0-60 in under 5 seconds. But Royal aint finished, oh no.

In 1991, the 1992 Royal FRR GT-II Warrior came out, powered by a CV8 223ci with 680 BHP. This car had a top speed of 214 mph, and a 0-60 in 3.8 seconds. This car was (BLEEEEP) Fast. But sadly, the FSR and FRR were cancelled for good in 1994, with the release of the 1995 Miara, followed shortly by the 1996 Model C.

In 1970, the 1971 CRM Thor came out to be a higher power output version of the FSR, and it included the 363ci V8 Warrior Engine from 1967, but it was too uncontrolled for the kind of racing the FSR was intended for, City Racing, and too small for the IARO-SCAR Regulation. Then the Warrior Engines (363 Warrior, 400 Warrior FI, and 370 Warrior II) were banned from ALL IARO Divisions for being too powerful, the latest having about 600 BHP.

The FSR also brought in some new features, such as power mirrors in 1981 as an option (but it wasn't until the release of Dead Truck did they sell cause then everyone realized that they needed a 1984 Calvinator Model C S with the Power Mirrors so they can see if there is a rusted over 1949 Calvinator Pickup with red head lamps behind them). In 1975, the FSR had LED Display for the speedometer, and had a digital compass that became standard in 1982. The 1990 FSR and FRR both had VVT, similar to VTEC from Honda, but from Royal.

There is talk about the FSR and FRR coming back, but as Miara Trims, for the 2020 model year. And they may be under the City Brand. For now, enjoy these cars.

Something very interesting about the FRR and the FSR in 1980 was that the exhaust made a machine gun sound similar to the Mitsubishi Lancer EVO.