It's a bit weird to me that people are talking and avoiding the VW. Sure it got it's last update this year but it seems to be one of the top cars, possibly the best choice on some rallies plus it's now reliable. If you have been with it for some time you know it and can extract maximum from it. If you switch to a new car it's not guaranteed it will be at 100% and could also have reliability issues at first, see Hyundai for example or Citroen that had quite some issues at first, not to mention Ford... Even for next year I think VW could be a good choice if you know it well but I may be wrong.

To me it looks more like that Toksport seat is the closest to a works WRC2 drive in a good all round car with proper testing except maybe for Mads' role with Citroen so that's probably why people want it.