Quote Originally Posted by itix View Post
I don't have a definitive answer to that question... But certainly not the Germans, that's for sure.

If the mathematical equation of the car had a solution, the Germans are the closest to that solution... But cars aren't mathematics and can't be understood by calculus. All off topic I guess but I have never been a fan of the German approach.

I like the Italians and French but also some of the Japanese efforts. Korea is coming closer to something likeable.

Americans have always been too big and too brash for my taste.

China has so far only been able to give me the chuckles car wise. We'll see about the future.

I've liked Peugeot for a long time (minus the 207) due to their rally programme when I was a kid so...

Now back to WRC stuff.

Maybe the VW budget might see some slahes if there are any proactive heads in VAG group (smart group that uses the abbreviation for vagina btw) but other than that we shouldn't expect any major changes
Finally somebody other than me, who's not that impressed with german cars. I have always been into Italian and French car brands, and especially the rare sport cars.

On the matter of there will be effects on the VW motorsport programs .... trust me there will. If you follow CNBC or Bloomberg, you will get the sense of how serious this actually is ... not only for the many law suits awaiting them, but also for future earnings for the company. There is a reason that Angela Merkel is involved in this now, and that's because German carmakers, is 20% of the total German exports!!

I do think, due the the company called VW, that it's actually that brand that will be most under threat, and I do expects the VW program in the WRC to be stopped by the end of this year at the latest. The last thing they want with the VW brand is to participate in what is percieved as a poluting by the normal people. Furthermore, the VW group will actually have to look at the political interest in the company, and their stockholders more than anything. So I guess cost-cutting will be on the agenda, after the law-suits have been settles, and there is no way that the WRC program will fit into that.