Quote Originally Posted by Marcco View Post
Yes, Toyota can be compared to VW on car market, but what makes you think Toyota gives this program same amount of money as VW did?
For me it looks more like a venture from Toyota, it seems they give some (just enough) money for private team to do the job and then they will see how it goes. If all goes well - they'll continue, if not (or something else changes) - they can stop easily.
Look at VW - huge amount of money, facilities etc etc etc... and boom it's over. Toyota's approach looks more cautious.
I have never said Toyota put same money into WRC as VW did. I said Toyota had enough resources to do so. What I wanted to say is that there was no sense at all to play with brand reputation by running half-way projects.

I certainly hope they are competitive but I don't agree at all with inventing excuses already before first event.