Rally2 (ex-R5) News

[N.O.T]

Ford is a bit strange too... they rallied the Fiesta for 5 years before bringing out a real performance version (Fiesta ST 1.6T). They could have sold thousands of these if they had brought something like it out earlier, so they lost all those sales to Renault, MINI, Vauxhall, etc.

Your mentality is false from a marketing point of view...

Manufacturers just want to promote a model not a specific version. No matter how many sales the ST has it will never be a high profitable car for the company.

Look at citroen for example all these years in the WRC with all those titles and they have not produced a single high performace vehicle based on their WRC worth mentioning... even the c4 Loeb version was a trash.

Only Mitsubishi and Subaru promoted their road going versions through the WRC and we can see how this panned out for them...

[AL14]

Yes, manufacturers join motorsports to enhance brand reputation and authority, it's something several steps back before the act of selling.

[Andre Oliveira]

Pontus Tidemand car don't go out of truck

[dimviii]

what do you mean ''dont go out of truck''?

[Andre Oliveira]

Didn't participate on monday test

[RS]

Didn't participate on monday test

Is Pontus not back from New Caledonia or did he use Lappi's car?

[Mirek]

In the past Škoda used to have a special car dedicated for tests with them.

[AMSS]

Anybody got a better picture of Fabia R5 front suspension, looks like Skoda has done something very very different than other manufactorers with front strut angle/upright pickup points...

[Mirek]

Yes, they really did it... afaik there was a lot of controversy about that.

[RS]

Has anyone worked out the reason they did this yet? I suppose it is something to do with all four suspension corners having to be the same and this being the best overall solution?