Toyota announces WRC plans

[tomhlord]

thought tommi makkinen earlier developed a four wheel drive gt86 and tested?

That was one of his Group N Subaru's, butchered with a GT86 shell over the top, used to demonstrate to Mr Toyoda how exciting Toyota being back in the WRC could be.

The team are going to run a Yaris of some sort, confirmed and set in stone.

Which version is unknown as yet, potentially an all-new road going Yaris could be introduced to market in 2017, so I'm interested in see if they use that (may be too soon) or the existing model.

[pantealex]

Which version is unknown as yet, potentially an all-new road going Yaris could be introduced to market in 2017, so I'm interested in see if they use that (may be too soon) or the existing model.

New one

Why would factory team build 2017 car from old model, that WRC is marketing tool for them.
Citroen and VW will also build their cars from new road models, not from existing road car.

[tomhlord]

Why would factory team build 2017 car from old model

Part availability.

[OldF]

Part availability.

What parts? The common parts between a road car and a WRC car is the basic body shell and lights.

[tomhlord]

What parts? The common parts between a road car and a WRC car is the basic body shell and lights.

Those parts.

Hyundai stated that something like that was part of the reason the new i20 was initially set back.

Just hypothesising. WRC car needs building now to test, new road car 18+months away.