Rally America thinks what now?

from their facebook page:

"When you think "rally racing" certain cars associated with the sport will spring to mind. So, Drivingline.com spent time at the Sno*Drift National Rally chronicling 5 oddball cars you wouldn't expect to see at a rally race."


with the link here:

http://www.drivingline.com/2014/02/5-oddball-rally-racing-cars-snodrift/


seriously naming 4 of the most common regional rally cars... as oddball.

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I won't argue about the "gone retard" part, but pretty sure that this was some other retard posting that. I laughed when I saw the first car was a GTX.

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I won't argue about the "gone retard" part, but pretty sure that this was some other retard posting that. I laughed when I saw the first car was a GTX.

Well we can presum it's Little Foggy-boy , the Media Mogul, the guys who is going to bring in the MILLIONS with all of his leveraged media product that maintains the Fazebook page so even if it is some pooor poooor misbegotten sould who knows nothing, and doesn't know that he knows nothing, it was posted on WawwyAmewica official page...

Somebody needs advice:

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That list is more full of fail than the Tacoma Narrows Bridge!

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Andrew Steere
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Mad Mike just posted this ugly ass thing from POR 30 or so years ago on facebook.

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Grant Hughes

all in all a great list of rally cars from then and now i would say

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I would rather drive a slow car fast as a fast car slow!
first rule of cars: get what makes you happy, your the one paying for it!

I wish they would have listed a Merkur, or better yet a SAAB 96 just to see what would happen to JV.

Maybe the article wasn't meant for the in-the-know rally community? Maybe it was meant for the flat brimmers in hopes that they will build up a something they can afford (not a subaru) and... save rally?

It's not accurate but is it going to hurt? (Is any thing in today's media accurate?) No. Will it save rally? No. Will it stir up a couple new competitors? Possibly. Maybe somebody will read it and not look at us funny when we say we rally and its not in a subaru? That would nice.

So much negativity around here.

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Dave Grenwis - DG Rally - www.dgrally.com

i have been told by the poser set that my car was not a rally car
rally cars are subys and E.V.O'S.

all i do is laugh and tell them to google it

snuff and roam still alive!

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I would rather drive a slow car fast as a fast car slow!
first rule of cars: get what makes you happy, your the one paying for it!

I'm going to go with the bright side crowd this time. We fuss all the time that newbies think they have to have $40,000 blue Subies to rally. Here are 5 other ways to get on stage.

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I'm going to go with the bright side crowd this time. We fuss all the time that newbies think they have to have $40,000 blue Subies to rally. Here are 5 other ways to get on stage.

Perhaps it is having somebody who clearly doesn't know shit from Shinola refer to quite common cars as "oddball" in the blog, and the fact that the little boy who is supposed to be the media hero putting it up without comment..
Seriously, we know the Foggs really are totally clueless people but it still is painful to see just how painfully clueless they can be...


For me I'm never really surprised at the provincial nature of anybody in North America... the odd thing is in some places it is Subarus which are the oddball car...couple of years ago I posted a thing on the total number of individual car entries in all of Finland.
Of the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of cars---the overwhelming majority being RWD, there were like 37-38 Evos and 5 Subies .
5 individual cars...

The Finns may be a lotta things but they aren't generally stupid for long.

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for rally america fans looks like everything odd if its not Subaru or ford. Look the upcoming 100 Acre wood rally... RA is basically a show case for Subaru as it looks like to me anyway.
52 some entrees and around 25 subaru and 10 ford. 4 mitsubishi and only 2 Evo... We all know there is a lot more Evo rally cars out there, right?
http://www.100aw.org/?page_id=63
Anyway as JV said , even in my small country, Evo's are way more popular then basically any other car maker model on a 4wd turbo platform. Because they are more reilable, and cheaper to race them, then a Subi turbo awd. The rest, really as JV said, majority is RWD and really in a historic class.
Like a Lada's.

PS: i think it is interesting the Finn guy decided to run a RalliArt which has basically an Evo (older CT9A) drive train with a new engine (4B11T) and the SSt-TC transmission which is a brilliant transmission ( i think close 2nd behind the GTR), but i dont know how good is for rally with a limited and changed power and power curve etc. I am really interested to see the result.



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for rally america fans looks like everything odd if its not Subaru or ford. Look the upcoming 100 Acre wood rally... RA is basically a show case for Subaru as it looks like to me anyway.
52 some entrees and around 25 subaru and 10 ford. 4 mitsubishi and only 2 Evo... We all know there is a lot more Evo rally cars out there, right?

I'd say that's more a product of Subaru pumping a LOT of money into RA over the years through their contingency programs. Makes sense to run a Subaru vs a Mitsubishi at the higher tiers because of the SP payout for the guys who were going to spend a bunch of money anyways. Then in the regional at least 10 of the cars get $300 off their entry fee just for having a Subaru.

Not saying it's the best thing, but cannot deny that Subaru marketing has swayed the general perception of rally in the US.

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cannot deny that Subaru marketing has swayed the general perception of rally in the US.

Yes, you can. It has swayed maybe in the narrow target that is "into" all this childish X-games pre-packaged made for TV 30 minutes production of things that take 3 seconds to do type "consumers".
But those kids, just like the Blogger and the Foggies, actually don't know anything about rally, they just believe they know...

Did you know that Subaru was the first turbocharged AWD car ever in the Whirled Rally Champignonskit?
I read it in a sidebar in European Car, that ol magazine for ur-flat-billers.

Somebody there, presumably not some bum that wandered in when the back alley door was left open, presumably on the pay-roll wrote that...

One person in a million entered an event last year...sure there's more "awareness" but when you are starting at nearly zero and move 1/100 of 1% that is MORE, but its still pretty much nearly zero..

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Regardless. $300 off entry fees or $0. How anyone can hold that against subaru is beyond me.