Better is a strong word. The 2.5 STI isn’t slow from a stop. (5.3 0-60) And so long as you get the revs up to 3000 the power is there, you don’t need to do a redline clutch dump.

Really the only significant performance advantage the Corolla might have is weight. In theory its awd system should be a lot lighter. Otherwise as you said, they stack up almost exactly:

Yeah, that’s my fear. In that case, it’s basically exactly the same as a nearly 15 year old STi hatch performance wise...

I am in a similar position with a 2011 STi Hatch that I use for Rally-X and Ice Racing. It’s all going to come down to weight for me, if the GR Corolla is 3400lbs...there won’t be any performance advantage over the 10 year old STi.

Alright, Toyota you have my attention. Now we need to know weight and price

You’re probably correct, but I can hope, at least until Thursday. If it gets the carbon roof and aluminum body panels like the GR Yaris that’ll help, and the GR AWD system is very light compared to something with a conventional transfer case + center diff.

Entirely possible, but I can hope. If it weighs a lot more than 3000lbs then it won’t really have any performance advantage over my current STI Hatchback. If it costs a lot more than a new WRX, I won’t be buying one new, but maybe I’ll try to pick up a used one in a few years.

I too am working on a K20 Fiero! Though I’m building mine for big tire time attack (where it will slot into the same category as any K-swapped honda), rather than auto-x.

Up in Canada I’m seeing ST205 GT4 Celicas come up for sale regularly...it’s really hard not to buy them because they are my favorite rally machine (other than the RS200), but I know that I’d inevitably end up stuck trying to get some ridiculous unobtanium part when I break it at a rally-x.

A car with the engine behind the driver is always going to be somewhat more difficult to slide in a controlled manner than one with the engine in front. The car would prefer to rotate around the center of mass, so the same thing that makes mid engined cars turn so nicely when gripping, makes them worse for…

90-92 SW20s essentially did have rear bump steer. The toe arms are shorter than the main lower control arms, which means the rear wheels toe OUT when the rear of the car unloads...like if you’re braking. Which makes the car have a tendency to rotate when lifting off or braking.

In the early 90-92 cars there was also an issue with the rear suspension design that caused the oversteer. The toe arms are shorter than the main lower control arms, which means the rear wheels toe OUT when the rear of the car unloads...like if you’re braking. Which makes the car have a even more of a tendency to spin…

90-92 SW20s essentially did have rear bump steer. The toe arms are shorter than the main lower control arms, which means the rear wheels toe OUT when the rear of the car unloads...like if you’re braking. Which makes the car have a tendency to rotate when lifting off or braking.

There is a very significant chance that my STI Hatchback will get traded in on one of these in the next couple years if the following is true:
- It’s priced competitively with a new WRX (I wouldn’t buy a new WRX, but I wouldn’t pay more than that much over my trade-in on a GR Corolla)

The GR 3 cylinder may be a little engine, but it is by all reports mighty and intensely tunable (typically Toyota overbuilt). I’d trust it to reliably produce 400whp a heck of a lot more than I trust my EJ to.

I’m 100% willing to believe they had yellow flightsuits already. The conspicuous blue circular patches....could have easily been added after.

Corvette was always going to be slightly disadvantaged in GTD. There’s no way the IMSA technical team could allow the one grandfathered car to be faster than all the brand new GT3 cars, so they were always going to have to overcorrect down and then gradually bring it up to speed. They were noticeably slower than the…

This is a good thing. Porsche has been looking into making an electric boxster/cayman for a while but the sticking point has been battery weight for them. I’m looking forward to seeing what they’ve come up with.

Here’s hoping that IMSA’s BOP is more reasonable. The DPI class has been pretty great over the last few years, hopefully they can make the new GTP class just as good. That could be the place to really see the hypercars run well.

I know it’ll never happen, but I really wish GT games would come out for PC. My last console was a PS3 so I have since hopped to Forza on PC for my racing needs, but I really prefer and miss the way GT games are structured.