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If you need any more reason to watch the video above than Walter Röhrl and a pair of 600-hp Audi rally cars, you might want to reassess your life. DON'T MISS: 2015 Chevy Corvette Z06 Runs 1/4-Mile On Performance Data Recorder: Video Also joining the fun, piloting the Audi S1 EKS RX, rallycross...

The Volkswagen Snowareg has been bringing snowy joy to the world for more than a year, but now that it's wearing Red Bull livery and thrashing about in the frosty forests of Sweden, that can only mean one thing: rally! ALSO SEE: This 963-HP, 196-MPH Mitsubishi Colt Is Totally Bonkers: Video The Red...

Coinciding with the launch of its new WRC team and car, Hyundai announced a new performance division that will leverage the best of the automaker’s motorsport technology for future performance variants of its regular fleet. The new performance division will simply be known as N, and takes...

He drove a racing version of the Volkswagen Polo to overall victory in the 2013 World Rally Championship, but soon Sébastien Ogier may be helping to develop a road-going performance version of the popular subcompact and other VW models. That’s the claim of VW head of development...

Hyundai will use its return to WRC in 2014 to help promote a new performance sub-brand the Korean automaker has in the works. The focus will initially be on the European market, where WRC is primarily run, but eventually we could see some of the go-fast Hyundais launched under the performance...

A VW rally car takes to the air in this slow-motion rally video.

It’s been almost a year since Hyundai first announced its intention to return to the world of WRC, and since then we’ve seen the Korean automaker slowly build up its team, establish a new motorsport center in Germany and start development of a brand new WRC car. Today, Hyundai revealed...

Peugeot is set to make a return to Pikes Peak this year, with nine-time WRC champion Sébastien Loeb set to represent the French automaker in the grueling hill climb. Peugeot, of course, is no stranger to Pikes Peak, having previously been triumphant in the event with its 205 T16 and 405 T16...

Norwegian rally driver Mads Østberg has entered the record books by completing the longest jump on snow, smashing his previous record set last year. The 25-year-old piloted a current Ford Fiesta WRC car up a ramp and over a distance of 60.48 meters (198.4 feet) to secure the record. In the...

Volkswagen, in only its second outing in the World Rally Championship, has managed to take home a win. The 2013 WRC season is the first for the German auto giant, which is campaigning two of its Polo R WRC race cars. After coming second on its debut at the Rally Monte Carlo last month, Volkswagen...

Volkswagen’s Polo R WRC rally car finally made its motorsport debut this past weekend, having taken part in the Rally Monte Carlo in Europe and thus marked the culmination of more than 15,000 miles of testing, the development from scratch of more than 1,700 parts, and close to 18 months of...

After announcing its entry to the World Rally Championship in May of last year, Volkswagen has finally revealed the race car that it hopes will take it to WRC glory in 2013. Already previewed in concept form, the new Polo R WRC race car certainly looks the part, and, as testing has shown...

After years of waiting, Volkswagen has finally added a high-performance ‘R’ variant to its Polo subcompact range, but instead of launching it as a standalone model the new hot hatch’s arrival coincides with the automaker’s 2013 entry into the World Rally Championship (WRC)...

David Higgins is, if you're not familiar, the 2012 RallyAmerica National Champion driver (along with co-driver Craig Drew), and the lead wheelman in Subaru Rally Team USA's efforts. He's therefore, by definition and demonstration, one bad-ass driver. But in rally, it's not all about the driver (or...

It's undeniably expensive to participate in motorsports at any level. At the level of the manufacturers--and the results they're expected to deliver--it's often insanely expensive. While Ford hasn't disclosed costs as the reason, it's pulling out of World Rally Championship (WRC) competition at the...

Frenchman Sébastien Loeb together with the aid of his co-driver Daniel Elena has won his ninth and final World Rally Championship title on Sunday, and in the process earned Citroen its eighth Constructors’ title. Competing in this weekend’s Rallye de France, Loeb was easily able...

Despite fears Citroen may pull out of the World Rally Championship next year due to financial constraints, the French automaker has confirmed it's committed to the sport and will be racing at the start of the 2013 season next January. Citroen, which won the championship last year, thanks to the...

Just days after Hyundai Europe confirmed it would return to the World Rally Championship with a highly-modified version of its i20 hatchback, Hyundai Motor America has announced an end to its motorsport programs in North America. Rhys Millen Racing, which has partnered with Hyundai in Formula...

Hyundai has confirmed its intention to return to the World Rally Championship with the unveiling today of a new rally concept based on its i20 hatchback sold overseas. Following its withdrawal from the sport in the last decade, Hyundai has remained committed to establishing an in-house WRC team in...

Our executive editor Marty Padgett is traipsing about the English countryside today, behind the wheel of the Subaru BRZ and on the grounds of the Goodwood Revival--but that's not the only significant motorsports happening going on in the U.K. this week. WRC is back for the Wales Rally Great...