The greatest Subaru Impreza on Earth is $600,000 and worth every cent.
There’s a single paddle sprouting out of the steering column, nestled to the right of the wheel. It’s wide and large, easy to push or pull while keeping a hand on the wheel, a rally innovation for when Colin McRae, Richard Burns, or Petter Solberg just had to shift with one hand while using the other to control a slide-through a slick hairpin. This is the only way to shift the Prodrive P25’s six-speed sequential gearbox, a car that promises to be the greatest roadgoing Impreza ever.
It starts with the shell from an Impreza, which needs to be perfect to even be considered for P25 duty. “It doesn't matter about running gear because everything goes in the bin, but the body shell condition is the key,” Thompson says. “We've hoovered up the best base body shells, however, to something like, you know, 700 hours going into the body shell alone from getting it back to a zero point to dealing with any kind of minor rust imperfections.
With Tomasz Jermolaj, the P25’s engine guru, riding shotgun, I got two brief runs around the short handling course at the UK’s Millbrook Proving Grounds. We start off in road mode, which means it shifts less aggressively, has different strategies for how the center diff locks, and has 360 hp. This is still a lot of power, especially in an all-wheel drive car that weighs just about 2500 pounds.
On my two runs in the car, I kept coming back to how wonderful the suspension tuning was. This is an extraordinarily stiff-feeling car, but that feeling comes from the shell. Prodrive worked hard on making the body stiff, which lets the suspension do its job on Millbrook’s bumps, keeping the wheels in contact with the ground and showing Prodrive’s expertise in rough surface tuning. Exactly what you’d expect from a company known for rally excellence.
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