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Originally Posted by RacingManiac

BTW, is the claim of Corolla being the firsr "WRC" car with transversely mounted engine being that its the first "WRC"-class car, as opposed to a car made for World Rallying Championship? Considering Evo had same engine layout....but they are technically "Group A", and Impreza always had longitudinal boxers sitting infront of the front axle(Which I believe was the other WRC class car at the time, Focus was next).

FYI McLaren F1 shares the same layout with longitudinal V12 with a transverse gearbox....

I believe so, about the first WRC-class car that has a tranverse engine. Because if it's the first ever rally car to have a tranverse mounted engine, there many other rally cars that predate the Corolla that had tranverse mounted engines, including cars as different as the Mini or the Stratos.