i hate civics and whatnot just much as the next guy, but its a different story when it comes to the higher end japanese cars
ie
gtr 32
nsx
i owned this 300zx at one point in time, and man do i ever miss it, had a few internal mods, nothing crazy but it was still putting down about 380-400hp
also to get back to the rally topic, i was having a conversation with a friend about creating the ultimate rally car. Ive always been a huge fan off nissans attesa awd, if you've ever driven a skyline, you probably know why. Our idea was to either shorten the chassis of of a gtr r32 by cutting out the area where the rear seats are, or to do the full rb26dett with attesa awd system swap into a 240 or silvia.
Then on top of that we thought that the hicas system (4wheel steering) could be beneficial at times, and not at others. So there would be a switch that could turn it on and off. When you turned it off the wheels would lock straightened back out. This would let you run hicas for the the high speed sections and any turns that didn't require drifting, then when you need to drift, hit the switch and let er rip.