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Can anyone think of any successful three cylinder motorsport engines for cars? (in something other than a one make series for Toyota aygo or whatever).

I sure as hell can't, and I can't imagine...

Yep... 5 cars out of 27 built and only 26 have been used competitively.
That's pretty much a 5th of all cars that have actually run.

It's utterly dismal. VW must know by now why this is...

Interesting (and a bit silly tbh). Had no idea superstition was so prevalent in rallying.

I've seen many SS13 in my life.

I don't know if this has been brought up but I just noticed something interesting.

There is no chassis number 13 of the polo, the Skoda, the two Citroen or the Hyundai... However the Peugeot and...

Yeah I got that... I was wondering how it could be wider stock than an R5 is allowed to be (it would make a useless base for the car in that case). It must be with mirrors.

My second thought was...

Isn't the FIA requirement 1850? (or 1800 perhaps?)
The polo might take off some mirrors on tight stages if they stick out past the fenders.

(although the rally car will likely have smaller...

I read sulland speculating on a homologation of the Mitsubishi... Is there any basis for this that I have somehow missed?

We're all in complete agreement on this one. As if the segment was not expensive as it is...

Compared to the S2000 she certainly isn't a looker.

True... I forgot about some of those models. In honesty though, glorious as the sound was, reality is moving away from N/A and into forced induction so I kind of understand the FIA decision.

So if we do get the corsa and iriz in homologation, we'll have
-DS3/208
-Fiesta
-Corsa(?)
-Iriz(?)
-Fabia
-i20
-Yaris (soon)
-C3 (soon)
-Polo (soon)

So it seems the Opel R5 wasn't just a rumor after all. Let's hope the extra time spent was on developing it properly.
Unless they are just going to show off a concept I wonder how the hell they have...

I am actually thinking that he has hit a roof and has stopped developing. Sure, the Ds 3 is not the best but there are plenty of people doing better result than him, in the same car.

He did great...

PLuto was stubbornly insisting there was such a project and that there would be such a car, and that was maybe two years ago. I seem to recall that someone even claimed it had tested but we have...

Well I have never developed a rally car in my life, so absolutely, I have no idea what the process is. I just thought it was an interesting correlation that two initially troublesome cars both were...

On a side note, the Hyundai R5 is having a very troubled start to its competitive life. Double retirement in Condroz noted as oil sump for both cars. (as in something punctured said oil sump or...

Not my favorite but prettier than the Skoda.

How on earth did I miss this?
I should burn my engineering degree and commit suicide out of shame!

Are you sure?

I am like 95 percent sure that the Evos 3 through 9 does not have a center diff. They have a transverse layout with the engine feeding the front diff which then sends power...

The Evo doesn't have an active center diff (if we are talking about the road car... If it's the rally car I would agree with you).

The Polios were probably one chassis from Start to finish so yeah... Probably only the five something cars that vw built. Plenty of DS3 and Fiestas though.

... Or maybe I'm wrong and all focus would be on the new world rally cars an the series would trip on its own costs.

Still, I don't like to see the old cars just go to waste. A looot of time and...

It really wouldn't help anyone to have them just sit around to be used by no one... That's for sure so if not the ERC, maybe the TER then.

We are seeing a steady decline of competitors in the...

For once I disagree with you... There will be loads of virtually unused wrc cars that are only accepted by some ASN's and that's it (unless FIA decides to make a stupid middle class for them...