Quote Originally Posted by WRCStan View Post
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.



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.
it's really not about what me or you prefer. it's just what the motorsport governing body refers to to make the regulations. you, me or anyone else can disagree on it, still it's them that define what a manufacturer is.

and i don't like the "wht ifs..." hypotetically everyone can do everything in the future, realistically, we still don't have a clear path to '27 and no new brand officially committed (actually we are losing them from the last wrc era)