Rally Discussion and Bar Talk Thread

[Fast Eddie WRC]

They just market it as HF, in a very same manner that Skoda market their product as "Fabia RS Rally2" despite actual road-going Fabia RS not existing since 2014, same as Ford with the "Fiesta RS WRC" without actual RS version of Fiesta ever existing.
What an audacity.

But at least they all had the same power source as the rally cars (an ICE) and Ford did have performance versions of the Fiesta (ST) and an RS Focus. Even Hyundai had their N range of road cars to promote by rallying. But now none of these exist to buy.

Lancia are going even further though, promoting a future EV with an ICE rally car. Bizarre.

[Franky]

Lancia are going even further though, promoting a future EV with an ICE rally car. Bizarre.

They aren't promoting future EV. They are promoting Lancia. As long as the car looks like what you are selling, no one cares how it moves.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

They aren't promoting future EV. They are promoting Lancia. As long as the car looks like what you are selling, no one cares how it moves.

I get the publicity aspect, but can it work when the only people who will notice are rally fans who generally dont like EVs anyway?

[saco0o]

current 'car segment' used in wrc is the "b-segment small cars / subcompacts", right?
examples: c3, yaris, mini hatch, fiesta, fabia, ibiza, 208, a1...

is this your favorite car segment? cuz I feel we may be moving "up" in the next years, with all the SUV thing.
i think if i were to choose, i'd rather have segment-a cars (fiat500, picanto, up!, twingo, aygo, i10, citigo). i like those smaller cars with big wings, reminds me some of the hillclimb machines.
haha i also love those k-cars from japan. they seem very "oh, this is what road cars should look like". that and those weird "tuk-tuk' taxis they have all over asia haha

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Ironically the boom in SUV popularity is just what EVs dont need, as with the batteries they have higher weight to lug around already.

But it seems the Manus dont care as they can make more profit selling big cars than small ones, hence the hatchbacks like Fords Fiesta and Focus dying out and the crossover Puma being the only choice.

[Mirek]

The choice of HF letters for both the rally CE and stock EV makes little sense indeed. On the ohter hand besides the old rally fans I gues nobody else cares and those will not buy the EV anyway.

Also the HF stands literally for "High Fidelity" and I don't remeber ever seeing a HiFi working without electricity

[Sal yet again]

The irony of all this for those of us old enough to remember Italian cars of days gone by is that the electrics lack of reliability were on a par with the poor build quality and ability of the car to rust before your eyes! The one thing most remember with passion is the quality of the engines something which is now is most definitely on its way out.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

The irony of all this for those of us old enough to remember Italian cars of days gone by is that the electrics lack of reliability were on a par with the poor build quality and ability of the car to rust before your eyes!

In the UK, even in Lancia's rallying heyday, I doubt it encouraged many to actually buy a Lancia given their reputation. Maybe just the wealthy who could afford an Integrale and keep it out of the rain !

[WRCStan]

Europeans need to stop using the term SUV like it means anything other than being too fat/old/lazy/uncomfortable to crouch down into a car. Nothing wrong with being that, it's consumer's choice. But half the time they're neither sporty or utilitarian. Isn't there a better word?

[Katvala]

Europeans need to stop using the term SUV like it means anything other than being too fat/old/lazy/uncomfortable to crouch down into a car. Nothing wrong with being that, it's consumer's choice. But half the time they're neither sporty or utilitarian. Isn't there a better word?

As everyone are shifting to SUV's nowadays we might as well start calling them "cars".

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