Posted Tuesday, November 12, 2024 at 9:58pm
In the lead up to Hyundai and Toyota’s showdown for the manufacturers’ title in Japan later this month, we’re looking back at some of the greatest manufacturer fights in World Rally Championship history. We asked you to vote for your top-five, and this is what you picked at number two.
As twins, our parents needed to assign us colors to tell us apart. So he was red, and I was blue.
Except for one important area: rallying. There, we were both blue. There, we both wanted to be Subaru.
Such an allegiance was commonplace. In rallying during the mid-late 1990s, you were either red or you were blue – parentally assigned or not!
Subaru and Mitsubishi’s battle on the world’s special stages encapsulated an entire new generation and defined an era. It even helped create an iconic band of road cars and associated car culture.
But, looking back 30 years on, it’s all slightly ironic, as the two never actually had that big a battle for a specific championship.
