Whichever class they make it, my point was having road cars as slightly detuned versions of the rally cars....
Lets say, a Citroen C4 but with 300bhp, sequential gearbox 4wd blah blah...
I reckon they would sell a few of those!
F1 is a different kettle of fish, the costs with F1 are staggering and the cars will never bear any resemblance to the road cars bar the presence of 4 wheels
Current WRC cars are as far, if not further, from the road going counterparts as anything back in Group B days. Building a road going WRC car would mean building a £250,000 C4 and expecting people to buy them? It carries the same issues; Its expensive, its not green, and it doesn't reflect the manufacturers line up.
Its not viable from a manufactures point of view (not any that compete in WRC anyhow) to plan to boost their brand by making small number highly expensive massively non green cars. Compounded by the fact that there are only 2 true manufacturers left in WRC.
Its a pipe dead of fans for them to return, but the fact is, Group B is part of history and will stay that way. From an era when there was a loose grasp on the rules and costs and safety. Those days are long gone.
I do agree with other comments about WRC though. Rallys are sterile, stages are repeated and boring and short, and TV coverage is shocking. Plus, WRC cars of nowadays are pretty much as fast as old Group B cars were, and I bed a road going Focus RS is not far off a road going RS200 or 6r4 either.
