Rally driving experiences and subarus

[Pigeoi]

There was a thread back in 2010 on this that seemed to recommend all the ones I've looked at anyway - Phil's Driving School, Gwynne Speed, and the London Rally School in Oxford, but my question is slightly different...

My motivations for wanting to do rally driving aside from the obvious are that I've always wanted to drive a Subaru. I've no good reason to want to drive a Subaru other than that it's the car I always picked when playing Colin McRae Rally years ago, probably cos I liked the stars on the side [judge me as you wish!]. However this dream is being brought further into question the more I actually look into them as an actual car to drive. Would appreciate some informed insights as to why they're terrible/ brilliant and how they compare to say Ford Escorts and Citroen C2's and, well, is there any difference at all honestly for someone with zero speedy-driving experience?

I'm aware not all these places offer the chance to drive a subaru hence why I'm asking, but will I necessarily be missing out if I pick the one doesn't [Gwnne Speed]? Are Subarus all they're cracked up to be [in my head] or are there better cars? How much does it matter to someone who's only ever driven in bog standard and is happy going even going slightly too fast down a wind-y country lane? Mostly I'm thinking, is the chance to drive a Subaru worth the extra mileage and ~50 quid price difference?

Would appreciate some insights as I think up til now I've been blindly dreaming...

[also, are the rally driving experiences on offer particularly different to each other or all offer pretty much the same thing?]

[Pigeoi]

RB Will said:

Driving an Impreza varies greatly depending on spec, some are ace some not.

I was looking for a good rally day at Xmas and like you wanted to drive a scoob. Every single day I found the Imprezas they were using were 2.0 non turbos so it put me right off the idea.

I decided then the next best thing would be one of the places that has an old rwd escort or similar so you can actually do a bit of sliding about.

If anyone knows of a rally place that lets you drive a proper turbo scoob (or at a stretch Evo etc) then I'd be very keen on that.

Ooh that's worth knowing! Gwynne Speed did say their C2's do a lot of sliding sideaways so knowing that imprezas don't necessarily is good to know!

[I really wish I knew more about these things like what affects what... need to do more nosing around!]

[Pigeoi]

Ah didn't think about the actual terrain, sounds like Phil Price you're getting your money's worth! Really hard to tell from the websites honestly as they all look the same from them so good shout looking at the vids, thanks for that Hoff!