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The announcement has been delayed until further notice. VW could announce their WRC program sometime this summer, and this time VW might make an announcement or 2 on who is going to drive this car.

Loeb just turned down a 15 million EUR offer from VW. VW is going to spend around 90-100 million EUR on this program.

Skoda originally did the WRC in the late 90s to mid 00's, but pulled out due to them not succeeding. Then again, Skoda was ran under VW management, and that actually hindered their performance. If Skoda was left to the Czech's, then I'm confident they could beat Citroen. Now Skoda is competing in the S-WRC and IRC and they won the IRC last year in the Fabia S2000 with the amazing Juho Hanninen.

Remember, the WRC changed their regulations to Super 2000 based cars with 1.6T engines, so VW could just take the Fabia S2000, give or take a few WRC specific tweaks and transfer it over to the Polo body shell and call it a day.

We should probably give VW the benefit of the doubt this time around. I hope they do well, but who knows for sure.

Just some more information on this subject.

VW is working on a massive offer for Loeb, for their WRC program. I've heard it will be around 50 million EUR, but the actual amount is a top secret.

Skoda is working on a 1.6T version of the Fabia S2000 that could come out by the end of this year. I've also heard rumors of VW developing their own WRcar with that 1.6T. VW could enter the WRC in either a Golf, Polo, or Scirocco. This could happen as early as 2012 but VW doesn't have a firm date. Thats if it happens.

There are rumors of Toyota using this car for a potential WRC comeback. Toyota is still deciding whether to do WRC, or a sports car program.

If you have the HD package, you can watch the WRC on HDTheater.

I prefer the Hulu Desktop Interface over the PS3 Hulu Plus app. Hulu desktop for the PC is quite nice, and I think it's much better.

Ceton users will get a firmware upgrade, so it's all good. Check the Ceton website for more details.

A JCW version is in the works JCW = John Cooper works which could have a hi-po 1.6T with AWD and agressive styling.