Shall we have a PH Top 100 - Best 4wd performance cars
Discussion
Another vote for the Evo VIII. I had a passenger ride in an FQ340 a couple of years ago, when it was being driven "spiritedly". What a machine! You really don't need much more outright performance or handling capability for the public road, but what impressed me was how much fun the driver was having doing it.
May I profer the road going version of the Lancia S4;
And the X-trac Escort of rallycross legend Martin Schanche;
I could quite easily have added all the GpB 4wd rally cars, whose like we will sadly never see again, lighting the nighttime forests with flames, and bellowing like the Biblical Behemoth.
To have seen them, in their pomp, was life-changing; isn't that what really, really good cars are about?
And the X-trac Escort of rallycross legend Martin Schanche;
I could quite easily have added all the GpB 4wd rally cars, whose like we will sadly never see again, lighting the nighttime forests with flames, and bellowing like the Biblical Behemoth.
To have seen them, in their pomp, was life-changing; isn't that what really, really good cars are about?
Impreza P1. Outstanding ability on less than perfect roads. I also have read that on a twisty road, a 22b wouldn't know which way it went. Or an STi type R. Very similar to the P1 with the addition of dccd for some oppo antics!
Pulsar gtir, ugly as sin but very capable in the right hands.
Metro 6R4. Again, so ugly it's cool. A jag V6 in the arse end of a metro? Just nuts!
Pulsar gtir, ugly as sin but very capable in the right hands.
Metro 6R4. Again, so ugly it's cool. A jag V6 in the arse end of a metro? Just nuts!
Another vote for the 1998 Subaru 22B.
Yes, other cars may be faster, progress will do that. But there's just something so right about the looks, and the fact that it was a bespoke body and engine, limited to 424 ever built, just for that one year, and no more have ever been built since as any kind of series run.
Unlike many others on this list which are just another model built year in year out; how special does it make that car, when they churn them out over and over, and supply may be measured in the thousands?
Long live the 22B.
Yes, other cars may be faster, progress will do that. But there's just something so right about the looks, and the fact that it was a bespoke body and engine, limited to 424 ever built, just for that one year, and no more have ever been built since as any kind of series run.
Unlike many others on this list which are just another model built year in year out; how special does it make that car, when they churn them out over and over, and supply may be measured in the thousands?
Long live the 22B.
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