Yes, it's got an MOT. Yes, you can drive it to the pub. No, it won't be cheap 🤑
Type R, Prodrive hacked the original car to bits to optimise it for every surface imaginable - in a way that wasn’t possible under the old Group A regs. The MacPherson strut suspension was relocated to help accommodate new Bilstein dampers, while the track width was increased for better agility. Coincidentally, this resulted in the GC8 Impreza’s muscular looks, with the regs mandating that extended arches must be seamlessly merged with the factory bodywork.
Compared to the championship-winning Group A car, the 1997 machine was leagues ahead from a technical standpoint. However, this being the first year of the regulations, it’s a real mishmash of old and new. The ’97 car still featured a manual gearbox and the electro-hydraulic differentials, which, while advanced at the time, would be replaced with far more sophisticated systems in the coming seasons. The engine, meanwhile, was the same 2.
Subaru was arguably the class of the field in 1997, taking eight wins on the way to that year’s Constructor’s Championship. In true Colin McRae fashion, he’d get within a whisker of clinching the Driver’s Championship, losing out toby a single point. Subaru suffered the odd mechanical gremlin that curtailed McRae’s campaign, as did a few shunts along the way. Still, it’s a landmark car for Subaru and Prodrive and spawned one of the most iconic motorsport liveries of all time.
Since then, it’s undergone a major restoration at Prodrive, retaining the original shell and making use of official Subaru Rally Team parts. Notice that it’s running UK plates, too? A quick search online reveals that it’s got an MOT, meaning that once it's taxed you could take this down to the pub without garnering heat from the fuzz. Can’t do that in an old Formula 1 car, can you?
Speaking of Formula 1 cars, it's probably best to expect it a ballpark figure somewhere in the region of a semi-successful F1 machine. You’ll find out just how much it costs if you give Fiskens a call with the intent of buying the thing, with recent sales of McRae-driven Subaru WRC cars suggesting somewhere in the region of half a million quid.
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