Toyota announces WRC plans

**Andre Oliveira** · 30th October 2015, 13:11

It is not built with 2017 regs.

**AL14** · 30th October 2015, 13:23

Does anyone know what Makkinen is doing at the moment?

VW already tested 4 times and I remember him saying at mid August everything was ready or something similar. We are in November...

**AMSS** · 30th October 2015, 13:45

Originally Posted by AL14

Does anyone know what Makkinen is doing at the moment?

VW already tested 4 times and I remember him saying at mid August everything was ready or something similar. We are in November...

They are building the new car and it should be ready for testing in March 2016, interview with him in todays Vauhdin Maailma magazine. Still no final decision in where the actual factory will be when everything is up and running. They are building the prototypes in his current location in Puuppola where they made the Subarus but it will be too small if/when they start "mass" producing.

**JAM** · 2nd November 2015, 16:37

Makkinen will expand it's current facilities. It's the plan B starting to work.

The new factory will not start construction before spring, because it's not even decided where will it be.

**Andre Oliveira** · 9th November 2015, 22:56

I saw a twitter about Yaris R5 and GT86 R3 and WRC. GT86 WRC could be good

**itix** · 10th November 2015, 11:52

Originally Posted by Andre Oliveira

I saw a twitter about Yaris R5 and GT86 R3 and WRC. GT86 WRC could be good

Who's twitter?

**dimviii** · 11th November 2015, 20:33

WRC project back?
The Toyota comeback is still in random orbits. After Tommi Makinen has usurped the leadership per se and locates the project in Finland, the Toyota Motorsport GmbH in Cologne seems to have set the last WRC activity.

In twelve months, Toyota plans to present the car to the FIA for homologation, by which he will celebrate in January 2017, the comeback in the World Rally Championship. Much is at stake, finally, the Japanese were for many years as the successful brand in the top league before they started with the tragedy in the Formula-1.

A similar debacle threatens now repeat in the World Rally Championship, for the way how the new WRC project is implemented, solves in the scene largely shake of the head from.

Began the Toyota Motorsport GmbH (TMG) about two years ago - initially on their own - with the development of World Rally Cars, counted as many observers with an ingenious strategy and a long-term planning of the world leader. But the appointment of Tommi Makinen as the new team manager took care of the first doubts about the implementation, because the task is enormous and more than a little motorsport forged had the former world champion is not yet passed. But none other than Toyota President Toyoda Aki heaved his Finnish rally pal personally in the office and apparently gave him not only a big budget, but also appropriate action freedoms.

Time is pressing and Mäkinen would immediately give full throttle, but unlike announced the project seems to falter. Nothing was out of the announced end of September strategy and structure plans. On the contrary. Up to the half-hearted statement to deploy the WRC project in his hometown Jyväskylä, and to build a new corporate headquarters, little has happened.
TMG will provide no engine

Worse, now seems to fail and the unloved both sides of cooperation between TMR (Tommi Mäkinen Racing) and TMG. The cold Asked Cologne troops should have no interest in, especially to serve only as a supplier of key components above the engine. In Finland, there are rumors that at TMG all activities, this revolve around the World Rally Car, will never end and even parts of the involved in the WRC TMG workforce be exempted. Mäkinen is then immediately at the French engine specialist Pipo have knocked, but its partner Hyundai raised takes the index finger and pointed to the contractually agreed exclusivity in the WRC-motor development. At the latest in March to the testwork with the Yaris WRC, Made in Finland start '. Which engine pushes the car is currently in the stars.

By the way: With TMG the first prototype should have been completed in nearly purebred 2017er trim. Thus one would have been the first team ever that the latest generation of WRC-can test. This advantage you have gambled through the mess of the past few weeks.

http://www.rallye-magazin.de/wm/nach...ojekt-zurueck/