Honestly? The front end and back half of the rear one with the top half of the back of the old one. This thing looks great except for the way the roofline/wing transition looks. The old one got that way better.

This is the correct call IMO - especially if you’re looking at a modified vehicle. The value of your race car may only be say 5k, but it would cost you 20 to build another one. Therefore you fix it unless it would cost more than 20 to fix.

You absolutely have more precise control over the car in other games than this one. Art of rally was built off the absolute drift engine, the cars are intended to be sliding all the time unlike most arcade games which give you a ton of grip. It takes a lot of getting used to but I’ve grown to really enjoy it.

One tip,…

I love having the Esso Speedpass app on my phone, so that I can pay for fuel without needing to touch the keypad on the pump, put a card in, etc. It’s especially handy when I’m on my motorcycle so that I don’t have to dig my wallet out. If they can slickly integrate something like that into carplay so I can just hit a…

Not really conservative summing. The total output is exactly the added output of everything except the 122hp from the MGU-H, because that motor is only connected to the turbo and doesn’t directly contribute to the power going to the wheels.
1185-122=1063

So they will presumably spend a lot of time charging it with gas/diesel generators?

Figures, the powertrain could only be heavier with the added turbos and they won’t have spent a ton of R&D dollars on lightening the platform to keep the price down.

Have they confirmed that the manual will be available with the V6 though?

I’ve won regional rally-x, ice racing, and TSD events. Always felt I could probably do well at a larger scale rally event if I had the money and/or sponsorship to build a car and pay a team to do it.

I have to assume, being a Bugatti, that getting to that one screw to tighten it requires disassembling approximately 60% of the vehicle.

The 88 fiero is a great car which is scarce, I agree (and I have an 88 notchie in the garage), but I don’t know that it is *better* because of scarcity. If GM instead kept the development going with the planned 200+hp engines, it could have been an even better car.

How did nobody say Tenere 700? Seems like a perfect fit, and you can get a brand new bike for your 10k instead of a used one.

Clio-based Colt Ralliart turbo awd GR Corolla competitor when?

You missed an important spec. Curb weight 3249lbs.

On the circuit edition cars, it’s signed Morizo (Akio Toyoda’s racing alias)

Yeah, true for drag racing for sure. For rally-x, circuit driving, or anything like that it’s not an issue. The STI launches just fine on a loose surface (and with an accessport the launch control makes it pretty foolproof)

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.