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Originally Posted by V8 Fireworks
As you say it is a lucrative market, where you can potentially sell not just the minimum run of 10 cars but hundreds of cars even!
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It's been a lucrative market for the like of Audi, Hyundai and JAS, where the cars are either built by the manufacturer themselves or by a third party with very close ties to the manufacturer.
For most of the private efforts - Fiat Tipo, Renault Megane, Subaru WRX, Ford Focus, Opel Astra - it's been far from lucrative.
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Originally Posted by V8 Fireworks
There's no Ford Focus nominated team, so Motorbase could do that. West Surrey Racing could similarly build all the BMW 128Ti TCRs and so on. WSR could also do a Mini Cooper S 5-door TCR using the same running gear too.
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They would need some level of manufacturer approval and/or support. BMW have previously indicated that they have no interest in TCR.
Anyhow, I feel we are getting very much off topic now. The title is 'How to improve the BTCC', and I'm not sure that have a couple of teams make cars for rival series does anything to address that.