Toyota Gazoo Racing has unveiled the Yaris WRC car it will compete with in the 2021 FIA World Rally Championship. The Japanese car manufacturer had initially planned to enter the 2021 season with a WRC version of the new-generation Yaris (the car that led to the creation of the road-going GR Yaris), but this project […]
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If you’ve won the World Rally Championship more times than anyone else in history, you don’t enter any race without a pretty good chance of winning. So when Sebastien Loeb says he’s going to Dakar with a new off-roader built by Prodrive, it’s worth paying attention. Top Gear has managed to get the BRX Hunter […]
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Little did the classic Morris Mini Cooper S Mk1 know that its triumph at the 1964 Monte Carlo Rally would result in a limited edition car being built in its honor more than half a century later. The 2021 MINI Hopkirk Edition was unveiled back in September and is based on the Cooper S hardtop […]
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This is the Prodrive BRX T1 and it is the vehicle that rally legend Sebastien Loeb will race at January’s 2021 Dakar Rally. Showcased for the first time with a unique red, black and white camouflage wrap, the Prodrive BRX T1 is being entered in the grueling race by Bahrain Raid Xtreme (hence the BRX […]
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The world is raving about the new Toyota GR Yaris, but had things gone a little differently, it would have been competing, in race guise, in the World Rally Championship. You see, the GR Yaris was built as the road-going variant of Toyota’s new WRC car and produced to meet homologation requirements. However, due to […]
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An extraordinarily rare 1986 Ford RS200 Evolution is currently up for sale and perfect for anyone who is a fan of the iconic Group B rally era. Ford unveiled the car in 1984 to meet FIA Group B racing homologation requirements. Just 146 examples were produced for the road, and of them, a mere 24 […]
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We’ve seen all sorts of (usually performance) cars being put through their paces, trying to score big in unofficial lap times at different racetracks all over the world, but what about a vehicle designed almost exclusively for hauling your family and cargo hitting a rally-like stage out in the forest? Enter the Team O’Neil Rally […]
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The all-new i20 N Rally2 is Hyundai’s latest motorsport offering for private teams and drivers, replacing the old i20 R5 which has been in circulation since 2015. The i20 N Rally2 is based on the all-new road-going i20 N’s chassis, building on the sporty look of the road car, which itself boasts several elements inspired […]
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MINI’s history in rallying goes back to the 1960s, and the British company has opened a new chapter by entering the all-electric Cooper SE on a rally stage in Romania over the weekend. Part of a partnership between BMW’s local arm and Vitesco Technologies, which is looking to modify the zero-emission hatchback’s drivetrain for racing, […]
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A bespoke rally car that sounds like a Formula 1 car competed at the Leadfoot Festival in Zealand back in February and is sure to get your heart pumping. On first impressions, you could be excused for thinking this was a Peugeot 207 created specifically for Rallycross competition. However, it’s not. Instead, this car is […]
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