The mondial de l'auto starts officialy the 1st october and goes on for 2 weeks, there is still plenty of time if there is any announcement at all.
That means that one of the Volkswagen drivers would have to go because the rules say that manufacturers can only enter three cars (unless those rules change for 2018). I can't really see that happening right now.
Latvala has been asking to be fired since they signed him by crashing every time he gets in the car.
When he's on form, he's on form. While he does over-cook it at times, it's usually because he's pushing, and often times he deserves the benefit of the doubt. Look at his accident in Argentina - you can hardly fault him given that everyone else who hit that rock got away with it. He's had a disproportionate number of mechanical failures compared to Ogier and Mikkelsen, and he shoulders responsibility when he does screw up, unlike Ogier who blames everything around him like road position. It's difficult to justify replacing him with Neuville given that Neuville has been similarly inconsistent of late - there's a reason Hyundai put him in the third car.
Uh-huh. One of the best-prepared cars I have seen in a long time, and it's not even thr final version.
Is it, though? In the 1970s, the Japanese car industry wasn't amazing, but by the 1990s, it was outstanding. The South Korean car industry was likewise poor in the 1980s, but here we are in the 2010s and they're excellent. The Chinese industry will be the next one to boom; the market is flooding with new brands (none of which anyone with an ounce of common sense would go near), but give them fifteen or twenty years, and they'll be significantly better.
You're the first person I have met who feels that way. Take off the livery and it wouldn't be out of place in the questionable modifications thread.
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It has grown on me a little bit, though I still rate it behind the Hyundai and the Citroën. I expect that will change once we get a proper look at the Volkswagen and the Ford, but apparently it's the test car and not the finished version. It appears that Toyota wanted to formally launch the team and announce the partnerships with the likes of Microsoft and DMG Mori at a major event like the Paris Motor Show rather than display the final vehicle - which is understandable since we probably won't be seeing final versions of all five cars until shortly before the Monte Carlo Rally, at which point the likes of the partnership announcements would likely be drowned out by all the media attention on the cars and crews. It might even explain why they didn't announce drivers, but I am probably reading too much into it.
Thing is, Hyundai didn't copy North American and German cars like what the Japanese did. Even in 3/4 scale mini "muscle" cars of the 1960s & 1970s and luxury cars of the 1970s through 1990s. Hyundai stuck to inexpensive automobiles. The Gen1 Sonata was a huge step up.
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And Al Qassimi doing selected events in a fourth car.
