Quote Originally Posted by GravelBen View Post
It was still clearly the fastest, strongest and most reliable car last year, just the advantage was smaller than the miles ahead it was in 2013-2015.
Overall it still looked a bit faster, but in a similar way the Hyundai looked a bit faster this year (until Finland). Anyway that's not the main point.

IF you look at VW drivers results last year and compare them to this year at same events in completely different cars they are very similar. Sometimes they are 1-2 positions down, sometimes not, but no constant 3-5 position drop.