What happened to rally?

[Chestrockwell]

I don’t know a lot about rally so I stand to be corrected or put in place.

I was driving behind an R reg Celica earlier with the biggest mud flaps and white rally like O.Z wheels, it looked pretty cool and reminded me of rally cars years ago, they were interesting and cool, nowadays whenever I stumble onto a rally video, it’s usually a supermini on steriods, Fiestas and i20’s!

What happened to the Impreza’s, EVO’s and Celica’s...or should I say, the bigger cars.

Surely it’s better marketing and a better way to sell said cars to the public as special edition or rally editions.

What is the purpose of rally cars becoming a lot smaller

[Chestrockwell]

I feel like these were so much cooler and the competition between Subaru and Mitsubishi made it so much more interesting, rallying and road cars.

I’m not asking what happened to the sport itself, but the cars!