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Thread: Rally2 (ex-R5) News
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28th August 2018, 15:50 #5251
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I've never really got why VW went and created an R5 when their sister firm Škoda already built a highly-successful one.
Was it really just to keep the VW Motorsport guys in a job after the WRC pull-out ?
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28th August 2018, 16:11 #5252
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28th August 2018, 17:08 #5253
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28th August 2018, 18:15 #5254
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Hrabánek confirmed that koda will continue to develop and build R5 cars for several more years. I'm quite sure they will at least until new Fabia IV comes.
Stupid is as stupid does. Forrest Gump
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28th August 2018, 20:20 #5255
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https://www.autosport.com/wrc/news/1...-testing-crash
"The roads in this place are used to test cars for Dakar; it's rougher than anything we would have seen on the Acropolis Rally. It's extreme, that's why we go there.
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28th August 2018, 20:40 #5256
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28th August 2018, 20:47 #5257
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It's a bit silly to 'test their car to destruction' but allow someone to be around to photograph it.
The pictures will be making the story before they can explain them.#M-SPORTER
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30th August 2018, 09:21 #5258
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30th August 2018, 10:27 #5259
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Never stop dreaming because one day it might happen.
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30th August 2018, 17:38 #5260
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#ComebackSkodaFabiaWRC ... R.I.P.
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