Colin McRae Rally 2.0 in the 2000 World Rally Championship, such as the Ford Focus RS WRC and Subaru Impreza GC. New features include Arcade mode, with direct head-to-head competition against AI drivers or another player, improved graphics with more detailed vehicle models and interiors, and a cleaner and more minimalist menu system, which would be retained for the rest of the series until the release of "Dirt 2" in 2009. Nicky Grist, whom at the time was the co-driver for McRae in 2000, reprises his role from the first game, who would remain until the release of "" in 2007; Grist later returned
Colin McRae Ford's United Arab Emirates driver Khalid al-Qassimi who recorded a distance of 30 m. On 27 September 2008 the "Colin McRae Forest Stages Rally" took place in Perth, Scotland. An enhanced entry list of several former big name rally drivers took part in memory of Colin. The impressive entry list included ex-World Championship drivers Hannu Mikkola, Ari Vatanen (partnered by his 1981 WRC winning co-driver David Richards), Björn Waldegård, Stig Blomqvist, Malcolm Wilson, Russell Brookes, Jimmy McRae, Andrew Cowan and Louise Aitken-Walker, many competing in their original cars. A handful of current WRC drivers also took part including Matthew Wilson,