VW News 2012 & WRC 2013

Great to see Hanninen testing the car!!! Goooooo Juho!

I hope we can see the car competing before 2013, maybe some rounds at the end of the 2012?! And im happy for Hanninen, he deserves it.

VW test drivers for Spain are... -> VW setzt Testprogramm mit Nachwuchspiloten fort | Automobil | MOTORSPORT aktuell

I like the shape of this thing :)

New VW Polo R WRC : Frankfurt | New VW Polo R WRC Concept | New Car Trends

http://newcartrends.com/new-vw-polo-...-wrc-frankfurt

according to this news vw will drive all wrc rounds in 2012 with the skoda: http://translate.google.de/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rallye-magazin.de%2Frallyes%2Fwm%2Fnachrichten%2Fnews-detail%2Fd%2F2011%2F09%2F19%2Fvw-setzt-auch-2012-auf-skoda%2Findex.html&sl=de&tl=en&hl=&ie=UTF-8]vw in 2012 with skoda fabia[url/]

according to this news vw will drive all wrc rounds in 2012 with the skoda: vw in 2012 with skoda fabia s2000

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Im kommenden Jahr will Volkswagen Motorsport an allen WM-Läufen teilnehmen, um das Team weiter an die Abläufe in der Topliga zu gewöhnen.

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translation: next year volkswagen motorsport will participate in all WRC rounds, to get the team used to the processes in the topleague.

Will the Fabia be phased out when VW is fully competitive? I only ask as we have not heard if there will be a s2000 Polo or not. Would VW run their excess junior talent in a VW backed Fabia as I do not see have they could have more than 4 WRC cars in the field (2 for WRC pros, 1 for a German who is favored by HQ & a 4th car for other talents or a gentleman driver)

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Originally Posted by Plan9

Will the Fabia be phased out when VW is fully competitive? I only ask as we have not heard if there will be a s2000 Polo or not. Would VW run their excess junior talent in a VW backed Fabia as I do not see have they could have more than 4 WRC cars in the field (2 for WRC pros, 1 for a German who is favored by HQ & a 4th car for other talents or a gentleman driver)

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Maybe there will be a Evo 3 version of the Fabia but that has to be officially confirmed yet. A Polo S2000 will never be created because u can't make a new model S2000 only the existing S2000's may get updates that's all. So S2000 will start to die soon probably :'(. And I think it has been said here development of the S1.6t is been shut down for a while now or not?

Quite a difference in front overhang btw the concept ant the real thing:

http://newcartrends.com/new-vw-polo-...-r-wrc-concept

http://www.autoblog.com/photos/volks...photo-4445776/

But both look good I must say !

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Originally Posted by darkstar

according to this news vw will drive all wrc rounds in 2012 with the skoda: vw in 2012 with skoda fabia s2000



translation: next year volkswagen motorsport will participate in all WRC rounds, to get the team used to the processes in the topleague.

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Don't know if it's been writen before: Abbring (Kevin in the above tranlation) also tested for VW although he got support from Citroen in the French gravel championship (according to Autonews Magazine » WRC » Abbring a également testé pour Volkswagen)