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 :D

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.

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Originally Posted by 306 Cosworth

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 :D

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.

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you can ask the same question about the i20's, or the ds3's.

to me this seems one of the biggest problems the current wrc has. if you want to drive a modern wrc car as a privateer your only option is a fiesta.

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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Originally Posted by 306 Cosworth

And yes I know VW don't really need to sell them, but it'd be nice to see them being used elsewhere.

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Why they don't need it? I mean, what's the problem with getting money even if you already have them?
My only explanation is that there are some "secret" in the cars they don't want others to discover. May it be? or is it stupid? :)

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.

VW are in the WRC to win. End of. No other distractions are needed.

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Originally Posted by AL14

Why they don't need it? I mean, what's the problem with getting money even if you already have them?
My only explanation is that there are some "secret" in the cars they don't want others to discover. May it be? or is it stupid? :)

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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.

I guess it still begs the question - where are all the chassis? Do they have 15-20 just sat in a lock-up somewhere?

Aren't some of those used in WorldRX?

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Originally Posted by denkimi

you can ask the same question about the i20's, or the ds3's.

to me this seems one of the biggest problems the current wrc has. if you want to drive a modern wrc car as a privateer your only option is a fiesta.

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2 i20 WRC are in Italy, "family" Fontana, or if you lika HMI-Hyundai Italia. and there are so many DS3 WRC, tho only one who dont have their cars for privaters is VW