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Manus concentration will continue but on the well succeded mergers most car brands are kept and revitalized, many even manage a return to motorsport. Now it's up to the FIA and the promoter to...

PSA and FCA merger was completed last Saturday, with Stellantis official launch. For now the company aim is to keep the existing 14 brands, giving each one of them a chance to rebound. In Lancia...

Btw, besides Autohebdo and many other publications, Michel Hommell was also the founder of Echappement magazine; in the 90's he asked Echappement readers to define the general layout of a new French...

It’s possible to have street legal protos, as it happens on Rally-Raid series (which also use open public roads as liaisons). Rally homologations are a manus monopoly because one of the established...

Spot on.

Once current manus were in favor of having full protos (without any link to the industrial production, apart a silhouette body) from 2022, what’s the reason to keep private tuners unable...

The first link is pro EV but the second it isn’t; they mostly quote German or French automotive sources (VDA, CCFA). The EU official document, with 3 options for future emissions standards (only...

Actually I believe Hybrids are the right choice for the WRC, once battery powered EVs (BEVs) aren’t ready for a proper Rally use (unless the WRC is suddenly transformed into a Mickey Mouse...

Fingers crossed, but ICEs future can be at risk with the new Euro 7 emissions standards, which will be voted at the end of the year by EU’s parliament. Some say they will be so severe that manus...

Yep, apparently as result of years of poor management (ironically now it’s Nissan who’s showing a chaotic leadership)....

The 500 or the Panda are even more and they’re also best-sellers among Italian private costumeurs.

The point is that Fiat wasted Lancia’s motorsport heritage in the most brainless possible way;...

Yep, at the time it was told that the late Giorgio Pianta was highly influential on Abarth’s move to racing, througth Alfa Romeo. Their DTM program was far from the previous WRC success and despite a...

And Lancia, which become irrelevant after quitting the sport.

Audi’s major problem was the board refusal to allow a radical change in the Quattro layout, by creating a more balanced central engine proto; it was considered to distant from the brand production...

It’s fair to say that until the mid 10’s there were still sporty models in the Citroen range and some of those were even converted into low or mid budget rally cars (ZX, Saxo, C2, DS3) but after that...

The question is about to know if the WRC is still relevant to change the brands image, like it happened with Audi, Peugeot, Subaru and Mitsubishi in the past.

That doesn’t mean that image...

Yep, 4WD is Audi lasting legacy to rallysport but they also managed to reshape WRC marketing value, at least for a couple of decades. For sure Dr Piëch would improve Audi results with or without the...

Yep, Audi was probably the first WRC manu employing wider resources but they surely weren’t more professional than Lancia/Fiat, Ford, Opel, Peugeot and even the European teams representing Japanese...

Even for spanish speaking guys this article may be hard to understand as some parts sound a bit incredible and shouldn’t be taken literally, especially the 'Ogier throwing down the glove to Adamo'...

Honestly, there’s little point to compare with F1; they have a grid to fill and they’re mainly interested on drivers money to do it…

Despite Citroen pull out, the WRC is not living a sudden...

My money is on Tanak; he’s the best ATM. Neuville needs to improve his consistency and Ogier top gun days are over (ok, that’s a bold one...still troubled about his departure from Citroen).

It was a post event slalom; in the 70’s and 80’s Portugal Rally used to be run from Wednesday to Saturday and on Sunday there was a public prize giving ceremony at Estoril circuit followed by a...

The perfect hybrid system for the WRC?

From 2022 the BTCC will use a light, cost effective, low-voltage hybrid system, additional to current turbo engines:...

Don’t forget the 911! Althougth mainly entered by private teams, the 911 Gr.4 versions were always competitive (mainly on tarmac) and a delight to watch. Hearing the flat 6 roaring in the forest long...

Yep, every WRC era has been fantastic and it’s hard to choose the best one; I’ve started following Portugal Rally in the early 80’s and it’s impossible to forget those initial memories, with top...

911’s won lots of events (and even championships) in Spain against S2000 or R5 cars, until they got a huge restrictor. It’d be nice to have a fair BoP allowing GT’s to battle R5 cars in national...