Quote Originally Posted by Jack4688` View Post
That Yaris just takes it too far - that thing is teeeeeeeny tiny and is surely not worthy of being a WRC car? Especially over a GT86! The cars competing in the WRC should be desirable, maybe exotic, cars that we aspire to buy. Not the car your granny drives to the shops!
Actually I agree with You that the recent supertuned shopping bags sometimes look funny (Yaris definitely) but there are two very valid reasons behind them.

First small cars are better suitable for rallying (not always but mostly they are). It's not the rules what makes the car small. You can make a Mondeo WRC if You like. The rules allow it. The problem is that Your car will be useless. The first reason why all use same size of cars is that it works.

Second point is that marketing guys of the big car makers want to promote what they sell the most. I seriously doubt Toyota makes any reasonable profit out of GT-86. That's more an image-maker than a bestseller. On the other hand they sell millions of Yaris. Also it's important if the cars fight with their counterparts on the market. Do You think it was a good PR for Subaru when Impreza was regularly beaten by C4? Impreza, the Japanese tecno-rocket, blue dream of every petrolhead loosing with some stupid French shopping bag Your neighbour's mother drives? Sure not. For the same reason it's purely stupid for Porsche to loose with Hyundai.