There are easier ways to move a chest of drawers. Whether there were quicker ways than with a Subaru Impreza WRX STi Sport Wagon in the 1990s is doubtful.
Or cooler, for that matter.
This, an example of which will grace Winter Wagons at the Scramble on Sunday 8 January, was to all intents and purposes a road-going Group A rally car with a boot. A big boot.
It left the factory with 276bhp from its turbocharged 2-litre – but was never officially bound for the UK and was home-market only. Naturally some found their way to the UK through various importers, but it’s a rare machine.
Rarer still, here and in Japan, is the Version 6. Deep front skirts and a pair of wings on the rear hatch really pushed the point home: this was no humdrum Subaru wagon.
Just 500 were made, all with gold wheels as standard like those beneath Colin McRae’s World Rally Championship winner. A pink Subaru badge adorned the grille, and oh-so ‘90s sticker on the hatch.
Wagons don’t cross country in quite the same way as an Subaru Impreza WRX STi Spor
Find the rapid rarity as part of Winter Wagons at the Scramble on Sunday 8 January. Book tickets.
