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Originally Posted by Captain Snooze
I've read a few articles saying Toyota has to build 25,000 cars to meet homologation.
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This was more a marketing driven decision and not so much an engineering driven decision. You can check the complete details below. Here is an excerpt:
Ask any current designer for the best base model for a World Rally Car and they’ll take you to the base model found up and down supermarket car parks.
What they won’t ask for is the marketing-driven, gen z-focused hot road car which comes in almost as wide as a current World Rally Car. It’s true. Ogier’s car in Sweden this week was based on a road car 1510mm wide. Elfyn’s Yaris in 12 months will have come off a hot hatch 1805mm wide – that’s only 70-mil narrower than the Yaris WRC.
One rival designer admitted this had caused the odd bit of head scratching.
“You want the narrowest car possible,” they said. “That gives you as much room as possible to work to the maximum width – that’s where the freedom is. Starting with a very wide road car could potentially compromise the World Rally Car.”
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/toyot...earned-so-far/