You need to learn about the Tueller Drill.

Not only people with firearms are deadly at a distance.

If by maintence you mean complete component replacement then sure.

When the average person here things maintence they think brake pads and spark plugs not a transmission overhaul or replacing wheel bearing or suspension components every race.

Wading and sitting in water for hours are completely different things.

You have this backwards.

The engineers at Subaru don’t engineer the car to compete in clubman rally events or higher. The rules are structured around what the cars will survive.

They’re not going to build in all that capability and cost so that 0.01% of the cars produced can race in these events.

Read the comment chain. It’ll make sense.

They’re really not bad. It’s a pair of BMW 2.7's there is not back magic in them, just mechanics who don’t know what they’re doing that includes on the dealer level.

I’ve attended around 50 rallys, build cars for Sno*Drift and had my eyes deep inside real WRC cars.

Trust me, I’m well educated on the topic. Thanks for your condescending concern.

For God’s sake man read the comment chain.

The post I responded to is calling it a “rally bred vehicle”

You’re going at this backward.s

I own a WRX wagon. I love the damn thing. I’m also not an idiot and realize it’s not a rally ready car. I’ve built race cars, they’re very very different animals.

Lifetime is the lifetime of the part, not your lifetime. So the lifetime of your air filter is the factory interval or when the pressure differential exceeds spec.

Look at my post.

The car is not designed around Group N. Period.

You’re so full of shit it’s laughable

http://www.rallispec.com/gea_dog_ppg-su5sd.html

Look at the differential gears. You can’t honestly tell me the stock gears are race ready.

The capability and durability gap between road cars and race vehicles is more of a chasm. There’s a reason a dog box rally transmission is such a common upgrade for these cars seeing heavy racing usage.

A rally school never mind an actual racer is expecting a much shorter life for those components. I’m mostly talking about the “weak” WRX 5 speeds.

Boy racer’s think they can run anti lag and run launch after launch and don’t get why they’re breaking stuff n the street.

Go ask the guys at o’neil rally racing school,…

You sir have won a chicken dinner.

Getting out early and controlling the narrative is all that matters regardless who is at fault here. What people hear first is what matters. Even if Tesla is ruled 100% at fault people will remember that “Tesla said it was the drivers mistake and AP worked fine”

Christ, you’re like the guy last week telling me it’s ok to drive your WRX like a rally car because “pedigree” but then bitching about blowing up transmissions when driven as such.

It’s a sporty commuter car that has almost nothing in common with a rally spec car other than drivetrain layout and branding.

Behr quality has gone down fast. Especially in failure prone parts like BMW expansion tanks (or guibos) it’s worth it to go with the real deal from the dealer or go aftermarket and get an aluminum version and never worry about it again.

It’s like sitting in the passenger seat you can see things coming the driver would not catch.