This is our kind of restomod. While the world goes gaga for million-pound-plus Porsche 911s with reimagined bodies, perhaps something with proven motor sport nous is how to convince folk like us that a retired icon warrants a comeback.
The Prodrive P25 is exactly that. Ostensibly it’s the old Subaru Impreza STI 22B road car, but modernised for the 2020s. Sounds too easy. And it is. Because in reality it’s something else entirely. With the team of people behind it, we ought not be too surprised. What you’re essentially looking at is a late 1990s WRC Impreza with fewer stickers and two decades of technological evolution sprinkled sympathetically through it.
Prodrive is now almost 40 years old and has campaigned cars in almost every sporting discipline, though its rallying success is perhaps it’s greatest calling card. “David Richards [Prodrive founder] had a feeling we should look at doing a car for the road as well
