Volkswagen expected to announce WRC participation

Volkswagen expected to announce WRC participation

The Race Touareg might have a cousin soon. Seems Dakar isn’t the only rallying Volkswagen will be up to from now, if the report is true. According to the folks at Autocar, VW is expected to confirm a full assault on the World Rally Championship before the end of this month. This intimation is based on info from the mag’s well-placed sources.

The company, it is said, is expected to make an announcement on this upcoming programme at an event that celebrates its success in the Dakar rally raid, later this month.

Having been linked to the WRC since the series confirmed its new 1600cc-based regulations, the initial speculation was that the Veedub rally car offering would be based on the Scirocco, but now it looks likely to be based on the Polo, according to the report.

The decision to commit into the WRC came after an intense internal discussions within the VW group, and it seems that boys at Skoda aren’t too chuffed about this upcoming decision – their WRC ambitions have been ‘relegated’ to the IRC.

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Anthony Lim believes that nothing is better than a good smoke and a car with character, with good handling aspects being top of the prize heap. Having spent more than a decade and a half with an English tabloid daily never being able to grasp the meaning of brevity or being succinct, he wags his tail furiously at the idea of waffling - in greater detail - about cars and all their intrinsic peculiarities here.

 

Comments

  • pomen_gtr on Mar 11, 2011 at 10:47 am

    polo WRC!!!!

    or polo S2000!!!

    golf oso can but surely they would choose smaller,nimbler chasis

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  • ChinHK on Mar 11, 2011 at 11:09 am

    I’m 1st, btw good job VW..

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  • Unforgiven on Mar 14, 2011 at 10:01 am

    Scirocco will be nice… somehow feel that VW is going to be one of the cheapest car Globally…

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