Quote Originally Posted by Ucci
Pluto, with all respect to you, as you have a lot of expirience running a S2000 car, amount up to 90.000 eur is a bit excessive, don't you think?? I will tell different comparison: team TAM-AUTO from Italy rents a Xsara WRC for one TRA rally (120 km of stages/one day) for app. 37.000 Eur. True, IRC race lasts up to three days, with 200-250 competitive km, but neverless WRC is much, much more expensive to run as S2000. Agree??
That's not comparable because such old Xsara is useful only in village events without real competition (N.O.T.'s words I know). It is completely useless in WRC rallies plus these old WRC cars are usually too unreliable for long international events.

To make it clear...

To rent four years old Xsara for WRC rally is waaaay cheaper than to rent DS3 from PH Sport. But it is no option for good result (or at least it was last year, now the Xsara is banned, I now).
To rent four years old Punto for IRC rally is waaaay cheaper than to rent up-to-date 207 from Kronos. But it's again no option for good result.

What You can compare is the price for let's say same target - how much it is cheaper to have a car for being in top 5 of IRC than to achieve same in WRC.