ProDrive develops tiny supercar

Impreza-based missile will top 160mph

By PH Staff / Tuesday, 10 May 2005 / Loading comments

The basis for ProDrive's tiny supercar

Prodrive is developing a supercar (isn't everyone?), based on a Subaru Impreza. But it will be tiny, barely bigger than a Ford Fiesta, according to a report by Autocar's Steve Cropley this week. Prodrive builds both the Aston Martin DBR9 GT racer and Subaru's rally cars.

The car will top 160mph but will be built using production car components, capping the price at around £40,000. Weighing some 1,000Kg, it'll be based around Subaru's well-known 2.0-litre turbocharged boxer motor, front-mounted, and generating somewhere north of 300bhp.

Conceptual information is all that available now but Autocar reports that it will have short overhangs, optimal weight distribution and be designed to be agile.

A Dave Richards project -- Richards is founder and chairman of ProDrive -- it will be finished by the end of 2005, amazingly quick, but the plan is to show ProDrive's speed and flexibility of execution.

Hmm, lightweight car, powerful engine? TVR watch out.