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You also need to remember brexit, it's not making dealing with M-Sport any easier

But how it's related to overheating of the new car?

some source of this statement? as I never heard about it.

More like with cheapest seats, no roofvent, cheap mirrors, no tripmeter, no sliding windows, no jack, spare wheel holder, protections, etc.

it's postponed month or two

It's not only paperwork and homologation. You need to make, stock and sell those upgraded parts.

New, quite big upgrade of Fabia evo will be homologated from 1.01.21, similar was probably planned for Polo but most likely won't happen.

Average fuel cons of R5 is around 55l per 100km on stage (depends on car, conditions, surface, driver, etc) and 10-20l per 100km on road section (mainly depends on driver and road type).
Better fuel...

I think most powerful fuel for R5 now is ETS. Some other are quite close, some other are not much better than 102 pump fuel (but are more stable). If I remember correct difference between Pb98 and...

No, it's close, real figures are bit higher, but depends on fuel of course.

Fully agree!

Yes, Mk1 car from Finland, car which Ketomaa drove last years. Tomorrow test in Estonia.

Brake balance adjuster is allowed, but now more and more cars have only one brake master cylinder for both front and rear brakes, so obviously there is no way to adjust the bias. Fabia for example...

The engine is for sure not the thing to be worried about in that car

In Ypres you need to use control fuel of British or Belgian Champs, and Belgian is Carless, UK not sure but almost sure not Total. So maybe during tests it was only part of development for VW to...

It was already few weeks ago, and I think all of them drove and were passengers next to Rovanpera, but it was on the airport area, not in the forest

It's Printsport car, just rented by Ruta for some tests and rallies.

Rear suspension was not really that big issue, it happened twice only. It was pure low quality welding of the rear arm. So it's really easy to solve.
Much bigger issue was power steering, but seems...

Polos are not coming, VW not releasing cars at the moment, until they will solve the fire issue. They already identified the problem and already new parts (similar to Skoda ones:) were tested during...

Car was found

For me the most interesting is why it was not happening during so long test phase...
And first thing they did was to issue Bulletin that rebuild period of the rack is lowered from 2000 to 1000kms......

I think this "easy serviceability" is related only to turbo, for sure rest is more "complicated" than Fabia or especially Fiesta.

I don't know yet how it works with Polo, but for example with Fiesta you can easily change the wheelbase by ~40mm. Of course whole setup is affected then, so needs a lot of adjustments, etc but it's...

Transmission is also Xtrac, but not exactly the same. Diffs are very similar, but for example disconnect unit completely different.
Regarding the wheelbase you need to remember that each R5 car has...

VW Motorsport in Hannover plans to build 3 cars per month, 30 per year. At the end of January they finished building cars from 2018 slot. They say R5 building not a priority plus some delays from...