The Prodrive P25 shouldn’t truly enchantment to me. As a reminder, it’s a reinterpretation of a 1997 WRC Subaru Impreza, however with 2023 elements, era and expertise.

Crucially, it doesn’t require an engineering group to run it and you’ll be able to – neatly, may just – apply it to the street. It does come at a worth: greater than £550,000.

I assume it’s aimed toward the one that beloved WRC within the ’90s, has come into some cash during the last 25 years and now needs to relive that point.

This is very a lot now not me: I used to be 5 on the time and I in most cases assume Subaru Imprezas are a little naff. I harbour no nostalgia in anyway for Colin McRae and Richard Burns.

However I really like a singular using enjoy, and flinging the P25 round a moist Anglesey circuit was once precisely that.

Using it underneath nine-tenths is needless, rather then to get to a location the place you’ll be able to pressure it flat out, so you want to be on a circuit or a closed highway.

On a monitor, I’m in most cases an overly clean driving force – gently pouring the auto in to corners and now not frightening the stability, however the P25 woke up a latent rally driving force in me.

It quickly become transparent that the P25 likes to rotate into corners off the ability, with the superbly mild but communicative guidance speaking you thru each stage of rotation.

Then there’s a second, and a call. With its four-wheel pressure and sophisticated diffs, it’s by no means going to settle into a steady powerslide, so you want to both collect it up and be in your approach or Dedicate. With a capital C.