Prodrive previews 'P25' Impreza project
We've seen plenty of restomod rally stars already - now it's time for Subaru's icon
For all its success elsewhere, Prodrive is inextricably linked with Subaru - unforgettable WRC wins and some fantastic Impreza road cars virtually guarantee the fact. But nobody needs reminding that it's quite a few years ago now. Still, it remains a very special relationship, one Prodrive is apparently keen to rekindle; so here’s your first look at ‘P25’, a new project that will resurrect a rallying icon.
There’s very little to go on for now, with Prodrive merely showing a silhouette on its social media pages and promising more info next week. That said a two-door Impreza has one of the most iconic shapes around, so the basis of the project doesn’t take much deducing. Not least given we’re now 25 years - hence ‘P25’ - from 1997, the year that the Prodrive-built Imprezas claimed their third consecutive WRC Manufacturers’ title. So it might be a reimagining of the Impreza Terzo, but we’re expecting something a little more exotic than that.
‘An icon redefined’ is how Prodrive describes it for now, which we’ll interpret for now as a legendary motorsport outfit building the best 90s Subaru Impreza it possibly can. Which, let's face it, will probably be quite awesome. We’re picturing something like the Redux E30 M3 - obsessively refining an iconic performance car - or perhaps even the RML Short Wheelbase, where you get motorsport attention to detail on a road car project. Neither sounds a bad way off making a restomod Subaru.
This is all conjecture and giddy excitement now, of course. P25 could be a one-off commission, it could be electric, it could just be a nicely restored old Turbo. But we’re hoping and praying for something more akin to a Kimera EVO37, a rally legend born again with the best the 21st century can offer. We’ll know for certain what the P25 is next Wednesday.
I wonder what the platform underneath is, I can't imaging they are cutting up 22bs, they are too valuable these days!
regular STi underbody with a carbon 22b-like body on top?
Presumably a DIT engine and all the running gear from the last of the sti's and expensive carbon bodywork, that they almost certainly still have the molds for
Prodrive releasing something linked to that era is great, and I'm wondering what it will look like.
What ever happened to the P2 they showed and proposed to market though, that never came to anything.
A GR Yaris is still pretty distinctive, Lotus Evora pretty good looking, I like the new Supra though not everyone does. Loads of cross overs and stuff blur into each other but then so did loads of cars back in the nineties, the Nissan Sunny, Poron whatsit, er, loads of forgettable stuff.
Dont get why everyone is so comfortable in the past all the time, can like both old and modern.
I wonder what the platform underneath is, I can't imaging they are cutting up 22bs, they are too valuable these days!
regular STi underbody with a carbon 22b-like body on top?
Presumably a DIT engine and all the running gear from the last of the sti's and expensive carbon bodywork, that they almost certainly still have the molds for
Build them from panels, register them as ‘Prodrive P25’, just like the MST Escorts?
Either that or buy shonky old 2 doors from Japan and spend loads of time repairing rot and making sure they’re not bent?
What ever happened to the P2 they showed and proposed to market though, that never came to anything.
I asked if I could get my P1 that I had taken in the workshop for a pic of them together but they wouldn't even let me push it in, apparently nothing is allowed in with fuel in the tank.
Interested to see what this 25 is though. Really hope it is not electric.
Refurbished Type R shell with 22b steel arches
2.5 litre motor + 6 speed running gear from the last of line STI's
Less than 20 off
Blue
Expensive
Roll on next Weds....
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