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Thread: Rally2 (ex-R5) News
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13th November 2022, 11:50 #6971
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I find the Rally2 quite ugly, which is surprising considering how good the roadcar, Rally1 (and the AP4 version) look. Maybe it is the black paintjob.
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13th November 2022, 12:08 #6972
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13th November 2022, 15:33 #6973
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13th November 2022, 18:44 #6974
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13th November 2022, 19:20 #6975
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Talking about this, one important point for Toyota is to avoid the mistake made by VW of developing the Rally2 car to close from the Rally1 one.
VW car is a still a good one but its optimized margin is too small to address the Rally2 market where you’ve both drivers close from Rally1 level and amateur drivers.
With also the fires at the beginning that made a bad PR, it’s one of the reason of VW relative failure in Rally2 (and not the level of the car itself)
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13th November 2022, 20:20 #6976
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14th November 2022, 04:55 #6977
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A Polo won the Norwegian championship this year (Larsen/Eriksen) against drivers and cars like Fabia (Brynhildsen, Grøndal and Aasen) and Polo (Veiby)
Grøndal did 1/2 season in a Fiesta mk2, but that didn't worked and swapped to Fabia.
I really hope M-sport brings out a new, good Rally2 car soon, can they survive without?
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14th November 2022, 07:27 #6978
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14th November 2022, 10:53 #6979
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I’m talking about the commercial part, not the sport part because as I said, it is still a good car.
But the optimized margin is too low compared with the Skoda to address to amateur drivers whereas this car was supposed to be the next big thing (and in the end, it never overtook the old Fabia evo).
And I talked about a relative failure because clearly, in terms of sales, they didn’t do really much better than Hyundai, Citroen and Ford and were dominated by Skoda that they were supposed to subtitute (and in the end, it is Skoda which is following his development with the new RS).
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14th November 2022, 13:44 #6980
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I think we saw this one coming, didn't we?
F1 Guru Adrian Newey leave Redbull