R-Classes News

[RS]

Still cheaper than S2000, at the moment.

[navtheace]

I don't think the top three categories of the WRC will survive.

World Rally Car - top of the tree 33mm
Regional Rally Car / S2000 - Reduced spec strangled with 30mm
R5 - Lower cost concept that gets 32mm

Not like how GpA was when there was just one top end category of A8 that was eligible for any rally/championship.

Lets see how 2013 pans out with RRC and R5

[tommeke_B]

Thats some way off the 100-150 000 euro FIA stated a while back.....
S2000 history repeats itself unfortunatly.
Must be possible to regulate this better for FIA. Now they are just sitting ducks, and the manufacturers dictate!

FIA stated 180K euros for kit... So when you want an assembled car...

[liposh]

The price of R5 will be quite high and very near to price of std S2000, but all the maintenance costs etc. will be lower, so at least one good step. Everything counts. I really don´t want to go to rally and see 2WD R3T cars as top category. 4wd cars are much more...spectacular.

[PLuto]

R5 will be on same price like new atmospheric S2000 car. S2000 1,6T is more expensive for buy. But we will see how it will be with costs...

[Sulland]

FIA stated 180K euros for kit... So when you want an assembled car...

Correct, but when the R5/R4T discussion started, the plan was to end at around 100K Euro, not sure if that was kit or ready to drive, but think they meant the latter.

[Mirek]

... and since the very beginning it was several times pointed out that something like that is pure utopia

[dimviii]

... and since the very beginning it was several times pointed out that something like that is pure utopia

+1
they just wanted to make wrc more interesting to manufacturers due to plenty 1,6 turbo road versions.

[liposh]

Correct, but when the R5/R4T discussion started, the plan was to end at around 100K Euro, not sure if that was kit or ready to drive, but think they meant the latter.

Few years ago I ´ve heard that Pech´s Lancer Evo 9 N4 price was 125 000 Eur. And we are talking about N4, so before it was rebuilt to R4. But I don´t remember the source. Maybe it was some kind of newspaper with articles like "Local boy´s leg cought in a trap. He used saw but cut off wrong leg"

[Sulland]

... and since the very beginning it was several times pointed out that something like that is pure utopia

Ye ye, and I hate it when you again are right Mirek!!