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Originally Posted by porsche930dude
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A proper homologation special! When was the last time we saw one?
A friend of mine just put his order in. Strangely, the "comfort" pack had HUD whereas the "track" pack with better diff and dampers didn't. He went for the track pack with a view to retrofit the HUD later on.
TGR has already built the 2021 WRC car based on this model and has been testing it. My friends at Hyundai should be very worried
Edit: Just read that they're not using the GR Yaris as base and keeping the old car. That's a shame!!
Speaking of homologation specials: A few years back, Volkswagen sold this Polo R. It looked like a standard Polo with some stickers and a slightly bigger engine, seemingly a pure marketing exercise. But their brilliance (and the might/willingness of an OEM to go that far to win) was to modify the regulation reference areas of the chassis ever so slightly, so that the rest of the WRC components can be better optimised. For an OEM to assemble a car with a different body-in-white structure, might as well have been a completely new model. They certainly weren't dicking around and the results are there to prove it. But I think the GR Yaris is cooler
