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    Just booted up the game again after a while not playing only to be greeted by a message telling me that some of my installed content isn't available anymore and I can either remove the content and continue or create a new save. 

    Someone want to explain?

  5. Posted · Edited by BatteredSav93

    40 minutes ago, tbtstt said:

    No worries! Bit more (useless) information for you is that Prodrive actually used "S" designations for the pre-Impreza Subaru programs, specifically: 

    S1 - Group A Legacy 

    S2 - Group N Legacy 

    S3 - Group A Impreza 

    Neither he, nor anyone else ex-Prodrive who has answered me, can explain why they skipped S4 (someone on the forum here pointed out there was an S4 SVX model, so maybe skipped to avoid confusion with the staff in Japan?). 

    The information from Martyn does tie a lot of loose ends together though: I couldn't understand why the WRCar spares lists only ran from S5 to S14, but the parts catalogue show some parts prefixed with S3: S3 parts are Group A Impreza parts that were used on the WRCars. 

    Well I know that Subaru designed their road cars to use alot of the same parts or at least the same mounting points in their cars so that newer parts could be put on older cars and vice versa. *If it's perfect, why change it?* just slap it on the new car. Mitsubishi proved that 'Group A' could still compete in WRC.

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    20 minutes ago, tbtstt said:

    This was what I believed until a few weeks ago @BatteredSav93. I managed to speak with Martyn Spurrel (ex-Prodrive engineer, Autosportif co-founder and Impreza WRCar owner) who confirmed that there was never an S4: Prodrive referred to the WRC97, WRC98 and WRC99 as S5.

    We got the first physical evidence last week care of a post @F2CMaDMaXX spotted on Twitter: in order to resolve a debate on the same subject, a picture of a WRC97 component was posted: it showed the part number to be prefixed S5.

    Incidentally, the semi-auto box was only trialled on the WRC98 late in the season (Vatanen ran with it in Wales). 

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    Touche. Thanks for the info. Nevertheless, I believe the (incorrectly named) S4 will be referring to the manual H-pattern '97 Impreza. 

  7. Posted · Edited by BatteredSav93

    2 hours ago, tbtstt said:

    Codemasters are calling it the S4, it is actually an S5 (there was no such thing as an S4). 

    Commonly accepted that the S4 was the 97-98 model, and S5 is the 98-99 model. Only major difference between the two is that towards the back end of the S5's lifetime it got the electronic sequential gearbox.

  8. Posted

    40 minutes ago, tbtstt said:

    Yeah, I think there are quite a few of us who are keen on that idea. Can't see it happening at this stage though, as removing the Evo VI from Group A would require the leaderboard to be reset.

    Didn't occur to me that the leaderboards would have to be reset. Probably would be best to put the Impreza S4 in the Group A category then so it's at least not being destroyed by the 2000cc cars.

  9. Posted

    22 hours ago, PJTierney said:

     

    Will need to check but I believe:

    • Legacy will be in Group A
    • S4 will be in Up to 2000cc

     

    The second part of your question I can't answer as it's all subjective.

    It would be better to put the Evo VI and the Impreza S4 in a class of their own. Ideally with a Corolla. 

     

    The Impreza S4 is going to be woefully outclassed in 2000cc when it's that old and still using a H-pattern.

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