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Hard to believe that a complete R5 car will cost under 250.000€. Selling R5 cars, like S2000 before, will be a very profitable exercise to manus, contributing to their rally departments survival....

At the beginning R5 will probably be sligthly cheaper and slower than actual S2000, but very soon they'll become more expensive and faster, simply because they're factory cars and will be used to...

Max price for S2000 settled by FIA was of 168.000€, not 268.000€ like you mention.

On initial proposals it was intended to be 150.000€, but it has raised to 168.000€, with an tolerance of 15%....

Sometimes what we heard it isn't necessarily true...
From public released data (like the MSport site) an RRC car price is 25% higher than a full options S2000 car.
Maintenance and parts costs are...

Are you sure? Double is 100% more!

WRC 1.6T rules were only introduced in 2011. They were intended to attract new manu(facturer)s to wrc and technical stability is essential to bring and keep manus involved.

VW commitment is for...

Totally agree.

WRC in their S2000T form should be ban from FIA regional championships and national sanctioned series. This way R5 could be developed as a contained budget top class, with costs...

R5 was intended to replace S2000NA cars at a fraction of their price. The problem is that S2000T (RRC) came in the middle of the process and now R5 costs will rise in order to match RRC speed.
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Is there a future for R5?

R5 was a good idea to allow amateurs to get new 4wd cars at a reasonable price but with the introduction of S2000 1.6T cars (RCC) in national or regional championships...