Quote Originally Posted by Mirek View Post
If You didn't notice they compete with the very same competitors in R5. Believe me that's really not the reason.
Skoda'a budget seems to be much higher than all the other R5 teams. At least before C3 and Polo came.
Most notably the testing and continuing development part. Others seemed to just make the car and then let it sell with little changes as long as somebody was buying it. (208, DS3, i20). But again that's just how it looks to me. Might be wrong.