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Thread: Where are all the Polo's?
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21st July 2015, 17:15 #1
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Where are all the Polo's?
Firstly, sorry if this has been covered in another thread before, I missed that.
So, where are the Polo's then? What are VW doing with them, and why haven't they sold any of the older cars to Privateers yet? I'm sure there's plenty of wealthy rallyists dying to get their hands on one. I know I want to buy one when I win the Euromillions
According to EWRC (http://www.ewrc-results.com/cars.php...gen-polo-r-wrc) There have been 28 Polo R WRCs built since 2012. So where are they, and are we ever likely to see any privateer cars?
And yes I know VW don't really need to sell them, but it'd be nice to see them being used elsewhere.Twitter - @Rallycameraman
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21st July 2015, 18:05 #2
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21st July 2015, 18:12 #3
Rumor has it that Volkswagen was contemplating building RRC cars running a junior team (with used WRC cars) but this turned in to the Skoda Junior WRC team.
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21st July 2015, 18:30 #4
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21st July 2015, 18:37 #5
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As soon as you sell cars, you need to have the infrastructure to to deal with customers.
Car companies are not good at that, as it requires investment, people, inventory etc.
It's one of the problems with having so many manufacturers directly running their programmes rather than using the traditional garagistes (M-Sport, Prodrive, MSD etc).
So yes, they could get some money buy selling cars, but they'd need to spend lots of money to be able to provide the service to them.
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21st July 2015, 19:22 #6
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VW are in the WRC to win. End of. No other distractions are needed.
Is there a better sound than that of Porsche engined Flat-6 ???
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21st July 2015, 20:14 #7
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I think You see too much conspiracy there. Of course they don't need to give everything out but I guess rallyfiend is correct. It doesn't end by selling the car. You need to have facility for rebuilding of components for customers, sufficient number of parts to deliver to customers, established service chain, available engineers to support the customers etc. etc.
Stupid is as stupid does. Forrest Gump
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21st July 2015, 21:31 #8
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I guess it still begs the question - where are all the chassis? Do they have 15-20 just sat in a lock-up somewhere?
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21st July 2015, 22:37 #9
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Aren't some of those used in WorldRX?
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21st July 2015, 22:55 #10
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Fourmaux. Btw msport tested also hankook tyres https://youtu.be/DESKqpAqX5o?si=3uxWc8FrCUGMT0Pi https://youtu.be/sHetcbBQwKk?si=M7kq3bf2ar3Slhco
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