Quote Originally Posted by itix View Post
I don't know whose idea it was to switch from the 206 to the 307 but that person should be the one apologizing.

They lost the title and all their success thanks to that.
It's off topic here, but while the 307 by itself wasn't great (dimensions), during the first year the 4-speed gearbox that also kept breaking was the worst part.

Engineers calculated that the shifts were loosing more time than making the gears longer. Problem was that the "stupid" drivers like Gronholm always felt they were in the wrong gear and tried to change down anyway.

Nandan was one of those engineers with that idea and kept that thinking afterwards. (Engineers make the car and drivers use what engineers make). Until he left at end of 2018 Hyundai didn't win a single title and the Tarmac i20 stays on as his legacy.