WRC mainclass from 2027

[Ferranis]

I remember certain members here repeating all the time “the top drivers will make the cars look interesting by pushing them to the limit”

So guys, we have many videos by now with one of the fastest guys testing the Toyota and are you still saying the same?

For me it’s just painful to watch

The car now also had quite some testing, it can't be the still the very first iteration. Or with other words: It most likely will not be that much different in Monte (Body shell excluded).

I can understand the reasoning that the competition will make it exciting, but Rally is a audio-visual sport. Having this kind of boring cars must have an inpact.

For example: Even as a super fan I will go from yearly WRC+ payment to monthly, since I expect to cancel mid season. Watching that is not worth nearly 150€ a year

[deephouse]

It's cheaper if you go monthly. Monthly full price is 12,99 and you do it exactly when the rally starts and have until that day next month. So if a rally begins on 22 january and subscribe it on that day, subscription is valid until 22 february. If you look on WRC calendar 2026, almost all rallies are linked by two, so even if you would do that for a whole year, you would pay only 8 times and it gets you around 20 cheaper than (even with 25% save as 9,99 month). It's a thing for many years now. I do it simply because I don't subscribe for all year, but just some events and get 2 for one.

[Ferranis]

It's cheaper if you go monthly. Monthly full price is 12,99 and you do it exactly when the rally starts and have until that day next month. So if a rally begins on 22 january and subscribe it on that day, subscription is valid until 22 february. If you look on WRC calendar 2026, almost all rallies are linked by two, so even if you would do that for a whole year, you would pay only 8 times and it gets you around 20 cheaper than (even with 25% save as 9,99 month). It's a thing for many years now. I do it simply because I don't subscribe for all year, but just some events and get 2 for one.

Many thanks for the information <3

Doesn't surprise me that there are such kinds of loopholes. WRC+ was and is a mess. At one year I got a whole year for free to keep me as a customer, since I had problems with payment and had to deal with the customer service for many weeks

[Sulland]

Do Rally2 cars have budget cap? I know that they vary in prices. I'm afraid that with WRC27 the story will be different. All of them will go to the absolute maximum, 345,000. But the performance could be very different. And we could end up with Toyota having huge sales and everyone else nothing.

It used to be 168 000 euro from the beginning of R5. For 1 car with either gravel or asphalt setup and no spares.
This sum was at some stage allowed to be index adjusted.

I think I saw a used Toyota Rally2 for sale for 270 000. Not sure how much spares or both undertrays was included.
So wuth both undertrays and a spares pack, it will get close to 345 000 Euro here as well.

Here we have one above 345k; https://rallycarsforsale.net/ads/toy...is-rally2-006/

[wyler]

Many thanks for the information <3

Doesn't surprise me that there are such kinds of loopholes. WRC+ was and is a mess. At one year I got a whole year for free to keep me as a customer, since I had problems with payment and had to deal with the customer service for many weeks

i'm a bit confused. i pay 89,99€ a year

[wyler]

It used to be 168 000 euro from the beginning of R5. For 1 car with either gravel or asphalt setup and no spares.
This sum was at some stage allowed to be index adjusted.

I think I saw a used Toyota Rally2 for sale for 270 000. Not sure how much spares or both undertrays was included.
So wuth both undertrays and a spares pack, it will get close to 345 000 Euro here as well.

Here we have one above 345k; https://rallycarsforsale.net/ads/toy...is-rally2-006/

the cap for the basic version is 200k. conversion kit, spare parts, upgrades & gadgets raise to 300-350.

[Ferranis]

i'm a bit confused. i pay 89,99€ a year

In Germany it's 119.99€ a year. Exaggerated a bit, but it gets closer and closer to 150€ over the years

[denkimi]

I remember certain members here repeating all the time “the top drivers will make the cars look interesting by pushing them to the limit”

So guys, we have many videos by now with one of the fastest guys testing the Toyota and are you still saying the same?

For me it’s just painful to watch

All it needs is sound.

if they went to screaming atmospheric v6 engines it would look a lot faster despite it most likely being a lot slower.

[denkimi]

and why should one buy a RallyOne when one could buy a Toyota

maybe because they will be in short supply. toyota seems to build only about 30 rally2 cars a year.

[deephouse]

What if they play fair game and don't want to lure out the remaining brands of the market. I mean probably Skoda can't be beaten, but Lancia have crisis to even survive as brand. Hyundai and M-Sport are not very active on that sector, Peugeot, Citroen and Volkswagen are no longer making those cars, so if Toyota would take all it would be bad. They are the real players, also it's nice to see many variants of those cars.