In September 2012 Hyundai announced that they were due to start the WRC with a rally model of its i20 to rival the likes of the Ford Fiesta, the Citroen DS3 and the Mini Countryman.

Therefore the existing tally of ten WRC triumphs were not to be added to, with the quest for a second world title proving equally fruitless for Burns.

These were the part of the 5, 000 units of ST185 for WRC homologation.

Despite a new evolution of the Accent WRC, Hyundai were unable to challenge the top teams: Peugeot, Ford and Subaru.

333 cars in blue with gold alloy wheels were produced to celebrate Subaru's WRC title.

The restriction was intended to limited power output to 300 hp although some WRC engines were believed to produce around 330 – 340 hp.

The 1977 and 1978 rallies were, in addition to the WRC, part of the FIA Cup for Rally Drivers, the predecessor to the drivers ' world championship.

NBC ’ s Washington vice president Frank M. Russell supervised the operation of both WMAL and WRC by 1935 when studios were moved from the National Press Building to the Trans-Lux Theatre Building, 724 14th Street NW.

Since 2007, both the ROC dune buggy, a World Rally Car ( The Ford Focus WRC ) and the Solution F Prototype were both included into the selection, plus another number of cars that vary from year to year.

The 2004 and 2005 Focus WRCs were evolutions based on the RS WRC 03.

It was rumoured her good performances were the result of a special engine, however her car passed inspection by WRC scrutineers.

Mouton's WRC outings were her home events: Monte Carlo Rally and Tour de Corse.

Early affiliates were WRC Washington, WIOD Miami, KXL Portland, WJW Cleveland, KFBK Sacramento, WLW Cincinnati, KOB Albuquerque, WDAY Fargo, WOOD Grand Rapids.

His last WRC appearances were at the Safari Rally, which he contested from 1981 to 1984, but retired each time.

Among 200 total production number, 50 were right-hand drive ( RHD ), and 150 were left-hand drive, and obtained the Group B recognition of the WRC.

30 were used for the domestic rally championship in the WRC and each country from among the original 200.

He finished the WRC season in third place in the standings behind the dominant Subaru World Rally Team pairing of Colin McRae and Carlos Sainz, after the Toyota Castrol Team pairing of Juha Kankkunen and Didier Auriol were excluded from the championship for running illegal turbo restrictors.

After several major accidents, Group B cars were banned from the WRC at the end of 1986, but found their new home in the European Rallycross Championship in 1987.

The WRX design received minimal mechanical changes, but a WRX V-Limited Edition was introduced to celebrate the success of the Impreza WRC car in the FIA WRC.

The Impreza brought Subaru three consecutive WRC constructors ' titles ( 1995 – 1997, the latter season the first for the newly introduced World Rally Car class ) and a driver's championship for McRae in 1995, the late Richard Burns in 2001, and the Norwegian, Petter Solberg in 2003.

Mäkinen managed to win three times in 2001, until Mitsubishi introduced the Lancer WRC in Sanremo, having continued running to the old Group A regulations even though their rivals began working with the new WRC regulations from 1997.

In September 2003, after a season hampered by budget constraints, Hyundai announced withdrawal from the WRC and planned to return in 2006, which did not happen.

In 2002 with four-time champion Tommi Mäkinen installed as his new team mate in the light of Burns ' departure to Peugeot, Solberg won his first ever WRC event in Wales ( Wales Rally GB ) after a consistent display of driving prowess and an unlikely accident by Marcus Grönholm.

While Loeb went on to register five rally victories on the bounce in a privately ( Kronos ) run Citroën Xsara WRC, his winning of the title unhampered even by breaking his arm at an advanced stage of the season, Solberg could only comparatively muster a handful of runner-up places on rallies all season — in Mexico, Argentina and Australia.

It was replaced by Rally d ' Italia Sardegna on the island of Sardinia, in hosting the Italian round of the WRC.

Protests included a ten-day tent-city occupation on the lawns in front of Johnson Hall, the main administration building, demanding that the university join the Worker Rights Consortium ( WRC ) which was founded by United Students Against Sweatshops.

Kankkunen was signed by Toyota in 1983 and he took his first WRC win in his third year in the team.

Due to good results for Toyota Finland in local events, Kankkunen was signed by the Toyota Team Europe, Toyota's factory WRC team headed by Ove Andersson.

Despite having to fare from mid-season with two substitute co-drivers after Juha Piironen suffered a brain hemorrhage, Kankkunen went on to take a record fourth drivers ' title by winning five of his ten WRC events ; the Safari Rally with Piironen, the Rally Argentina, the Rally Australia and the RAC Rally with his new co-driver Nicky Grist, and the 1000 Lakes Rally with Denis Giraudet due to Grist's pre-arrangement with Armin Schwarz.

At the penultime round, the Rally Catalunya, he was leading by almost a minute over Sainz and McRae and seemed to be heading towards his first WRC victory on tarmac, as well as closing in on his fifth title.

He was joined by his long-time co-driver Juha Repo driving a Ford Focus WRC for the Stobart M-Sport Ford Rally Team.

Apart from academic research, an Australian company, Kinetic, is having some success ( WRC: 3 Championships, Dakar Rally: 2 Championships, Lexus GX470 2004 4x4 of the year with KDSS, 2005 PACE award ) with various passive or semi-active systems, which generally decouple at least two vehicle modes ( roll, warp ( articulation ), pitch and / or heave ( bounce )) to simultaneously control each mode ’ s stiffness and damping, by using interconnected shock absorbers, and other methods.

Wendt performed alongside Richard Thomas in Twelve Angry Men in October 2006 in the Eisenhower Theatre in Washington, D. C .. After the show opened, Wendt was interviewed by local film critic Arch Campbell for a piece on the NBC Washington affiliate WRC.

The engine ( XU9J4 ) of the Mi16 was later used by Peugeot as the basis for the engine in the 206 WRC, winning two championships.

He made the decision to enter three of the sports model Vivio Super KK driven by Masashi Ishida, local driver Patrick Njiru and up and coming WRC star Colin McRae on his Safari debut.

Amidst the technical changes, WBZ also began engaging in network activities ; by 1925 it often shared programs with WJZ in New York City ( which Westinghouse had also started in 1921, but sold to the Radio Corporation of America two years later ), and a WBZ special commemorating the 150th anniversary of Paul Revere's " Midnight Ride " was also fed to WRC in Washington, D. C. and WGY in Schenectady, New York.

The coupé was chosen by Prodrive for use in the WRC because it was lighter and stiffer than the sedan, although it carried the same exterior dimensions.

This car was given a unique color of blue and had fender flared widebody taken from the Peter Stevens designed WRC car, thus widening the width by 80 mm ( 3. 15 inches ).

In 2001, Mitsubishi was forced by the FIA to race in the WRC using WRC rules for building a car instead of the Group A class rules, and thus did not need to follow homologation rules.

A move to the Prodrive-run Subaru World Rally Team for 2002 as replacement for Burns ( who had chosen to drive a works Peugeot 206 WRC alongside Gronholm for his title defence ) yielded one more, final career victory, on the 2002 Monte Carlo Rally where a technical infringement committed by on-the-road winner, and emerging talent, Sébastien Loeb, allowed Mäkinen to upstage the Frenchman.

World Rally Car is a racing automobile built to the specification set by the FIA, the international motorsports governing body, and used to compete in the outright class of the World Rally Championship ( WRC ).

A Subaru Impreza WRC | Subaru Impreza WRC2006 being prepared by Prodrive

The 1982 season saw the series dominated by the four-wheel-drive Audi Quattro, and with Group B regulations coming up, Talbot withdrew from the WRC.