Unfortunately I have too many occasions where I have to drive 600+ miles in a day, and particularly into rural/remote areas with poor charging infrastructure, to be able to go full EV. However, if I had $80k to drop on a car I would absolutely own a V60 plug-in hybrid right now (very much want). If my driving…

Lia isn’t swapping with her co-driver on transits. ARA allows a learner’s permit to qualify as a “valid motor vehicle operators license” so long as all the permit’s stipulations (having a licensed adult in the car at all times etc) are met

As others have mentioned, all rally cars are required to be not only road legal, but registered, licensed and insured. They all have VINs and they all have license plates. Ken’s car was literally built to be road legal. Getting around import laws and ARA regulations was the bigger challenge

As a co-driver, send me anywhere. Monte Carlo, Rally Finland, Baja 1000, Dakar. I’m good to go.

Funny thing is the famous jump on Concord Pond (the one on the photo) is, to me, the smaller jump. There’s a bigger jump about a mile before that one and there’s rarely any spectators on it. Sadly the stage is way too fast to be used in the WRC

You should see the exposures at Rally Colorado and Oregon Trail. And there’s no trees to catch you

Gotcha. I do love a good rally truck. Unfortunately they’d be uncompetitive with the faster cars no matter how you set them up. The added length is too much of a disadvantage. Also, gravel tires aren’t low profile. Almost all gravel rally tires are designed for a 15 inch wheel in order to maximize sidewall, because…

It’s a tough situation. From a logistics standpoint the FIA would want the rally in the eastern US, as it would shave a good week each way on transporting the whole circus to the event. However it’s easier to find and get permission to use roads further west, and from a funding perspective (any event needs to be able…

Most of the rally infrastructure is transported by ship for events outside Europe, so they're hoping for an event not too far from a port. (Colorado being the obvious exception among the contenders in this regard)

Colorado has a rally in the ARA western championship already. You should check it out!

I know you're being (partly) sarcastic, but the main reason this could never work is that rally cars are required to be road legal, registered, and insured. Trophy trucks, obviously, are nowhere near road legal. Also, as banzai said, trophy trucks would be absolutely smoked despite having double the cylinders and…

They wouldn’t have to build a Colorado event from scratch. The current Rally Colorado has an abundance of world-caliber roads. It might also be possible to revive the Colorado Cog or old Rally Colorado roads.

I’m surprised Kalle Rovamperra becoming the youngest ever WRC event winner and/or Seb Ogier winning the title in his final day as a full time driver didn’t make the list

“I was warned ‘no rallying’”

They did on the reair later, but there’s zero delay built into the live broadcast, so nothing gets beeped

Hell yeah!

Recently discovered God is an Astronaut and damn if it isn’t some of the best atmospheric driving music I’ve heard in forever.

They pop in and out. The rally RAV4 a few years back was a factory program

Have you seen Fabrizio Mirandola’s 500 rally car?

Below the world level rally is like 80% amateurs and, if we’re calling anything over, say 25 years old a classic car (which, I’d like to point out, one of the two Targa cars wasn’t), then they’re at least 1/4 classics.