I’ve driven both, so maybe I can help out here. I would actually say the 2.0T is the smoother and better of the two engines, but the problem is people are dumb. They see a 2.0-liter four-cylinder and think it’s weak and underpowered and bad, and despite the fact that they are wrong, they still insisted upon a big V6.…
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Because they’re generally uncompetitive in this market. Too clearly designed with a different market in mind. Design, interior, engines, body shapes (sedans?), size, they all tend to be different from what people here generally desire. Let’s turn it around: how many French cars do you see driving around in the US?…
No we like american cars , but the good ones are to expensive , at least here in norway. Big cars with big volume and much power doesn’t go well with our tax system :/ You wouldn’t wanna pay $113k for a bog standard camaro 6.2 LT msrp $25k would you? :-)
The Norwegians have form when it comes to tunnels. The Laerdal tunnel (I’ve been through it) is 24 km and cost about €100m between 1995 and 2000, which seems almost cheap compared to the Channel Tunnel. Much narrower than the ship tunnel but then again much longer too..
That’s my mother country!
The light at the end of the tunnel is just a freight train ship coming your way.
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Considering he’s been quite the item here on Jalopnik, why not you go ask him to do a Live Q&A here sometime? It’d be fun!
Yes. You don’t see the cars as often, but there’s something special about being there in person. Sitting in the forest on the edge of a dirt road, waiting, buzzing with impatient anticipation, ears straining. Then you hear it, the whine of the engine and the explosive pop of the anti-lag bouncing off the trees,…
Growing up in Germany, my perspective is more about Opel in its European home market - and that’s a bit different from yours, as you mostly focus on global and US perspectives. The VW Passat and Golf changed European volume cars forever. Until then, Opel was very much in the mix - if you weren’t going to buy a luxury…
And the team was led by 4 time World Rally champion Tommi Mäkinen.
Reminds me of a moment in an end stage interview with Marcus Gronholm back in 2001 or 2002. The Peugeot 206 was always losing at least half of it’s rear bumper and at the end of one of the stages a fan brought one of the bumper chunks to Marcus to sign. Marcus’s response was to give the bumper a gentle tug and tell…
This is how mad Tanak’s drive was:
Politics in racing suck.
(sorry to be that guy with the useless historical knowledge of times past that nobody cares about)
You wouldn’t use the WRC snow tires in anything other than standing snow as they are an extremely aggressive tread with large studs which would be ripped out on anything other than snow (a big issue on some of the warmer editions of rally Sweden when the stages can be gravel at times).
I may be wrong, but doesn’t every part have to be homologated and certified?
Also, this is the year that they changed the cars towards the Group B era power output meaning they would need to upgrade a significant portion of the car.
Global Rallycross is far from an FIA sanctioned - remember when the FIA tried to ban FIA drivers from competing in GRC? Scott speed won the parking lot version of rallycross that we have here in the US called GRC or Global Rallycross. Except GRC only races in the United States. Mattias Ekström won the FIA sanctioned…
Well... I mean... “Global Rallycross” is kind of a misnomer to begin with since they never leave the continental US. Why not double down?