VW to build Iroc World Rally Car ?

[phaeton]

Motorsport News today (11 April 2007) reports:
'Volkswagen is planning to build a World Rally Car based around its Scirocco sports coupe.

A source within the World Rally Championship told Motorsport News the German firm is planning to ditch its rally raid programme in favour of a WRC assault which could break cover next year.

Although VW has achieved success in the World Cup for Cross Country Rallies winning the drivers' and teams' titles in 2005 the firm has yet to take victory on the flagship Dakar Rally despite a multi-million pound outlay.

It is understood that the company's disastrous Dakar campaign in January has triggered the idea to switch to a WRC project.

VW revealed the Iroc concept car at the Berlin motor show last summer as a possible replacement for the Scirocco which ceased production in the early 1990s.

The car is 1800mm wide - the same as Citroen's standard-setting C4 WRC - and 4240mm long compared to the C4's 4274mm.

Kenneth Eriksson scored VW's only WRC win on the Ivory Coast Rally in 1987.'

Source http://www.vwmotorsport.com/news/news.asp?ID=142

[DaveMack]

That's great news!

... an F1 car next?

Dave

[phaeton]

While it is a BIG rumor there have been whispers of WRC re-entry for a while and with the new S2000 class taking off it will be even cheaper for car companies to run WRC programs.

Currently VWs S2000 Polo is winning rounds by the hand full in South Africa & Belgium.

http://www.superwheels.co.za/default.asp?id=213025&des=article&scat=superwheels/rallying

http://www.inforally.sibiul.ro/wrc-rally-news-9919-first_vw_victory_belgian_championship.html

... an F1 car next?

Dave

Why not

[syncro]

Although VW has achieved success in the World Cup........ the firm has yet to take victory on the flagship Dakar Rally despite a multi-million pound outlay.

It just goes to show what halfwits work for VW.

What about the 1980 Dakar where Volkswagen came 1st, 2nd, 4th and 9th?
I bet the quote was from VW Australia, the same mob that advertised that the Touareg was the first VW 4X4.

[phaeton]

It just goes to show what halfwits work for VW.

What about the 1980 Dakar where Volkswagen came 1st, 2nd, 4th and 9th?
I bet the quote was from VW Australia, the same mob that advertised that the Toureg was the first VW 4X4.

LOL true but I think you know they're talking about the current program which started in 2002.

LOL x2 about Touareg thing