Spilnersphere

Photo: Car Magazine It's winter and the roads are snowy. You drive along a B-road to avoid the congested main road. They're really just three corners but also the three best of your life. The car's sideways, the blow off valve of your Subaru is whistling while the winter tires are burying themselves into the snow. You're in a small town but you could swear you're on the Monte-Carlo rally stage and your name was Colin McRae. This might have to do with the spirit of McRae living on in every single Subaru STI. The fact that we have cars like the these are thanks to motor sports. Lancia Delta Integrale, Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution and Dodge Charger Daytona have all one thing in common: Their heritage. Because these cars are so-called "homologation models". Homologation, at least in a car related sense, is a motor sports term and describes a technical permission for car to compete in a sport. So when Toyota is having its Le Mans prototype inspected by