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  1. enamel said:
    Did VW really wait until all the other seats were taken at other teams before announcing this to their drivers? If so that is really crappy. Not as crappy as releasing a purposefully defective product, but at least consumers have recourse for that with the buy-back.
    Yeah, because VW are the only manufacturer who have fibbed about an automobile on sale...

    ...the timing is a bit crap, but the lineups at M-Sport and Toyota are still pretty open, so I think that at least some of the VW crews will get picked up. 

  2. Hmm, maybe, laterally, only ~20 BHP more overall though?
    Its looking like 60+. Current WRCars are quoted as being in the region of 310 to 320 BHP. 2017 engines are expected to produce 380 BHP with the enlarged restrictor: and that's the official figure, which is nearly always conservative...

    ...the big unknown is the torque produced by the new engines. Current engines are (officially) around 340 Ft Lbs. I wonder how much more they will squeeze out of them next year.

  3. tbtstt said:
    I wouldn't worry about VW and Ogier and whatever. Anybody remembers the 2006 season? Citroën pulled out of the championship while developing the C4, or something like that. Loeb used a privately entered Xsara for that season. Still champion.
    The 2017 WRCars cannot be run by privateers. I could end up eating my words, but I'm 99.9% sure we won't see Ogier in a VAG car in 2017. At least not in rally anyway...  ;)
    I think i saw that too, i think it's dumb tbh.
    I wonder if there are safety concerns with regards to the new cars. It looks like the next generation of WRCars are going to be stupidly quick and the last time that the governing body of World Rally put "stupidly quick" cars into the hands of anyone who could afford them it ended badly.

    Perhaps they will relax that element of the regulations in the future. 

  4. I wouldn't worry about VW and Ogier and whatever. Anybody remembers the 2006 season? Citroën pulled out of the championship while developing the C4, or something like that. Loeb used a privately entered Xsara for that season. Still champion.
    The 2017 WRCars cannot be run by privateers. I could end up eating my words, but I'm 99.9% sure we won't see Ogier in a VAG car in 2017. At least not in rally anyway...  ;)

  5. KevM said:
    Are menu visuals really that important?  If the menus drain resources, then I would place them way down the list of priorities 
    Ha! I thought it was just me who was thinking that an awful lot of people seemed to be overly worried about the menus! I do agree that the menu(s) in DiRT 2 looked very stylish, though they were a little clunky in places and could have been a little more intuitive.

    Personally I prefer simple, stripped back, menus, so I can spend the minimum time finding what I want and the maximum time racing. CMR 2005 sticks out in my mind as good, as the front end was very simple, though you did get a visual representation of the car at select points.

    Something a little more involved in the next title would be a nice detail, but if the menus from DR were recycled in order to enable the team to spend more time elsewhere it wouldn't bother me in the slightest!

  6. Dytut said:
    To be honest, Ogier was the guy that won because Loeb left in the beginning.
    Seeing a lot of RX fans discuss a move to WRX from Ogier. It's where the big-name competititors are at the moment! Would love to see that happen. World Champions everywhere, especially if JB decides he fancies a pop at RX too.
    JB seems to be a strong rumour at the moment, though I'm on the fence with that one: although his family name is established in rallycross I have never really warmed to Jensen (perhaps moving away from F1 will change that though). Also the last time a big F1 star appeared in rallycross, they were a massive disappointment! 

    Ogier is an interesting consideration. With a rallycross test drive already under his belt and Audi on the fence with a decision for EKS in the future, a move from Ogier might persuade them to put some money in to rallycross. 

  7. Dytut said:
    On the bright side, in case Ogier won't be driving next year chances are the title fight will be incredibly open.
    Yeah, but next years Champion will always be "the guy that won because Ogier had no drive that year"...

    ...the more I think about it the more annoyed I get at VW: all that development in the Polo and it's destined to be locked in a shed next year! 

  8. Forgive the double post, but the VW exodus from the WRC has been confirmed:

    http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/motorsport-wrc/updated-volkswagen-quits-world-rally-championship-end-2016

    Such a shame, as I was looking forward to seeing them fend off the challenge of the returning marques, plus we'd have had five manufacturers in play. 

  9. dgeesi0 said:

    as for graphics its not all about graphics.rather have a better realistic fun game than a super duper graphics ****.
    I have said it elsewhere, but I fully agree with this as well. Handling and sound means far more to me than ultra polished scenery.
    They just need to make it more european. :tongue:
    I'd like an option to drink tea and eat scones in the back of a Transit van before going racing. Once successful in the career mode I should be able to upgrade the Transit to a caravan.

  10. Dytut said:
    Seems rather unlikely that VW would just throw away all that work on the 2017 car. But then again, you never know. Really hope that's not the case.
    Yeah, I find it hard to believe that they would abandon the team after all the development, but if the purse strings are being tightened, they may have no choice.
    I think they would atleast sell the cars to another non factory team to run for them. But I dont think VW will drop out. Maybe after next season, but not now
    Perhaps things would be different if they were to pull out, but no Polo WRCars have ever made it into the hands of privateers, so I wonder if the whole program would just be locked away. 

  11. VW on the verge of pulling the plug on their WRC program? Perhaps just gossip...

    http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/126924/volkswagen-could-pull-wrc-programme

    ...but an interesting snippet to read after the Audi announcement last week. Would they back out when they have already poured so much into development of a car for 2017? 

  12. KevM said:
    So if we find out who has been knighted then? 
                    
    Might help us figure out who has been close. I think a few of the regular posters in the thread already have VIP status though, so it may not be entirely helpful!

    I wonder how much notice they will give with the invites?...

  13. gfRally said:
    Basically if you look way back to the first few posts, well history does repeat.
    How long between first people being invited and early access/release last time?
    The date of the "group" invite was 28th October 2014 (though others had been invited to see the game before that date). DiRT Rally early access was launched 27th April 2015, so that's pretty much 6 months to the day.

    I wonder how relevant the above time frame is though. To me the official statements so far give the sense that the team have a complete product ready for release: at the point in time when I visited we saw a lot of fragments of a game, but they were still figuring out how to put it all together. 

  14. At this stage I would personally prefer to see McRae honoured in the game with the inclusion of classic cars and liveries. For me seeing the Group A Impreza in DiRT Rally with the proper livery on it, was a better tribute to Colin than slapping his name on the box of a game he had no involvement with, 

    CMR 1 HD would be quite a cool way to mark 10 years though!
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