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Toyota Back To The WRC
Exactly as the thread title says, Toyota have confirmed they will return to the WRC in 2017...
http://m.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/117506 ...great bit of news. I hope they are joined by another Japanese marque or two! |
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Yep, good news although putting the Yaris next to the old Corolla WRC for some of the pictures was a mistake - the Corolla looks much better! Hopefully the existing manufacturers will stick around so we get a proper fight.
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The older I get, the smaller the WRC cars get. I predict that in my life time, the WRC cars will reduce down to the size of a matchbox!
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They used to be escorts and chevettes, they just got bigger in the 90s, but that was proven to be a mistake by how much better these little cars are to watch.
But I will agree, this car looks terrible. Hopefully a new model will come out before they race. Or maybe they will just improve it. The Yaris looks like a standard car on small wheels at normal rise height with a wide body kit on it. Edit: From the photo in this article http://m.speedcafe.com/2015/01/30/to...onship-return/ |
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A mistake!!! Ceica, IMpreza, Escort, Lancer, Octavia, 206, Cordoba, Accent, massive entries, the biggest the sport has been for decadesa nd you think a Polo, DS3 and Fiesta are better! Sorry chap but unless you saw them live, you aere in a dream world son. The drivers are just as committed, but the cars are easier to drive, sound crap and look awful! |
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Still, Hyundai managed to make the boxy i20 look OK so hopefully Toyota can do the same with the Yaris. The Fiesta and Polo are still the best looking cars of the current generation for me. |
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IMO the best sounding rally cars I've seen in real life are Lancia Stratos and MG Metro. But compared to those N/A V6's I still don't find 1.6 WRC cars sounding 'crap'. |
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My main problem with small cars today is that they dont really have a bonnet and if they do its incredibly sloped. A bonnet for me should be almost horizontal.
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Yes that's a pity that true saloon car racing has disappeared. Modern cars you could call saloon cars are just too wide and too heavy for racing on 10 feet wide country roads.
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Part of selling the sport, is having great looking, great sounding cars, with bangs, flames, etc Call it all part of the 'WRC Show'. Look how popular the 3 Porsche 911 GT3's were last weekend? And they had no hope of winning. |
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