WRC mainclass from 2027

[WRCStan]

to me, and to most of people in the rally world, a manufacturer is a company that produces road cars.

Rally is a road sport, and bespoke-design spaceframe build rally cars are road cars. I get your point though, I'm not going to argue you should change it, but it's not logically definitive.

but we can also refer to company/entity that builds their own shells, works the same, as the majority of names you did are just tuners, or company/entity that uses others' shells to prepare a race car.

Forget what these hypothetical example 'tuners' might have done before, think what they might do. If they are building a car from scratch and the car's legal registration papers have their name/make then they're not using another company's chassis or body.

We could also digress into body-on-chassis cars like a lot of the big American SUVs are and older cars were. And we could get into the makes that contract out the construction of shells; but if this is your belief, fine. What I'm hearing from you is "series-production manufacturer with funds and capable of churning out 10,000s cars per year for the average consumer" Fine.

honestly, i don't get all the part about lancia. if u are saying that fia must change the homologation standard, i can agree. anyway, the minimum quantity for rally2 (and lesser) is 2500, not 25000, that is not that far from low volume to me. rally1, as being a space frame doesn't have a minimum quantity.

Yes, 2500 for others; 25,000 of a model family for WRC and Rally1. For me this conversation is revolving around WRC top class so I may have conflated points; and I would think that a WRC2027 without powertrain would be largely the same up and down the pyramid. Willing to be corrected on that, but as a Fiesta body made it to every step, I think it's doable and good practice in the long term.