LAST AUTO NEWS – MINI RETURNS TO RALLYING
Last Auto account – MINI allotment to ambulatory Close announces official accord in WRC from 2011.
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It’s official! MINI’s long-rumoured acknowledgment to ambulatory has been confirmed, with a car based on the new Countryman crossover. The car will be developed by assemblage legends Prodrive, and be entered in called ambit of the 2011 season, afore a abounding advance on the championship in 2012.
The Countryman WRC is getting congenital to the latest championship rules which appear into force next year. That agency the Countryman will go head-to-head with Ford’s Fiesta and the Citroen DS3. The MINI will be powered by a 1.6-litre four-cylinder turbo engine congenital by BMW Motorsport, and accept a almost simple four-wheel drive system.
The aboriginal car is due to be completed this autumn, and the close aswell accepted it has orders for cars from clandestine teams, bolstering its attendance on contest abundant like accepted championship teams Ford and Citroen do.
MINI has a continued history of assemblage success, and the move to access the WRC has continued been expected. BMW Sales and Marketing arch Ian Robertson said “I am captivated MINI will be represented on one of the a lot of accepted stages in all-embracing motorsport. The success enjoyed on the assemblage ambit has fabricated a basic addition to the angel of the brand. MINI barter accept consistently apparent abundant absorption in motorsport. I am assertive we will add a few added capacity to our success adventure in rallying.”
Prodrive has been alive on the MINI WRC car back 2009. The firm, which is a lot of acclaimed for demography Colin McRae and Richard Burns to WRC titles in its Subaru Impreza cars, aswell ran BMW’s assemblage M3 activity in the backward 1980s.
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