Except that the tranny in a scooby rally car is a six speed sequential
gearbox with (I'm assuming) approximately nothing in common with the
transmissions in their street cars.  :)  Isn't the tranny in the WRX rally
car put together by Pro-Drive and not by Subaru?  


>I will agree that rally driving is different from street driving...just 
>think of it as an accelerated wear situation.  If a manufacture can't keep a 
>gearbox together for one or two sessions of a rally how do you expect them 
>to make a box that will last 200k?  I think it speaks more for the quality 
>of engineering then for the direct comparison between a street car and a 
>rally car.  There are lots of other teams that are makin just as much power 
>if not more and they aren't having near the problem with trannys as the 
>suby's are.  Now don't get me wrong...i'm not saying that the wrx is a bad 
>car, quite the contrary i think it kicks ass.  You have to admit they seem 
>to have a problem with tranny's.
>
>Like Clayton has said...it's not like vw's are any better.
>
>
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