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Taking control of the gearbox is simple, too.

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No piston car has ever delivered a 3.5sec 0-62mph time with less driver effort. The P25 erupts very little wheelspin, its traction and gearchange points entirely managed by electronics. The quick-shifting dog ’box – which admittedly comes complete with generous amounts of gear whine and off-throttle backlash – incorporates a launch control, selectable on the dash, that gets the P25 off the line at maximum attack and makes the first two changes at full-noise revs (6000rpm) on its own.Īll you do is select Launch with a switch on the console, hold the car on the brakes with the accelerator flat and then let it go.

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Such are the P25’s poke and off-the-line traction that with a conventional synchromesh gearbox on full acceleration, the driver would have to make a first-to-second change less than a second after lift-off or lose time running into the rev limiter. This reinforces Prodrive’s case for equipping the P25 with a special, competition-derived, six-speed sequential gearbox, linked to the engine via the company’s own control electronics. The official figure was 276bhp, but folklore (and testing) suggests the real figure began with a three.įor the P25, Prodrive claims more than 400bhp and 442lb ft of torque, thereby promising a power-to-weight ratio of at least 330bhp per tonne – nearly 40% more than its predecessor and on a par, thanks to the lightness, with many a 600bhp supercar. Prodrive’s engine experts are still calculating the exact power output, but that’s nothing new: nobody was very specific about the 22B’s true output back in the day. Prodrive has re-engineered it with new cylinder liners, pistons, conrods, a beefier Garrett turbo and an exotic exhaust system comprising titanium, Inconel and stainless steel. The engine is a Subaru turbocharged flat four, but it’s an updated American-spec 2.5-litre unit (the 22B had a 2.2) with variable valve timing. To build a P25, Prodrive prepares and stiffens an authentic Impreza WRX steel monocoque chassis, then dresses everything but the doors with carbonfibre outer panels from its own composites operation in Milton Keynes.ĭespite the inclusion of extra equipment and plusher trim to satisfy a modern generation, the new car weighs around 1200kg at the kerb, some 50kg less than the original. You might imagine that such an eye-watering price would limit the P25’s desirability, but not so.

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Since so few people will ever own a P25, the price was pegged unashamedly high: £460,000 plus taxes, meaning £552,000 for UK buyers.

There were particular updates for key components such as instrumentation and lighting that have come a very long way in the past 25 years. The plan was to stick close to the philosophy of the original 22Bs while using modern materials, processes and technology to improve everything else: engine, performance, brakes, suspension, quality and interior comfort. But this isn't a restomod of that car: as a tribute to the Prodrive-built Subaru World Rally Cars, the power and performance has been suitably raised. When these 22Bs started breaking through the £200,000 auction price barrier, Richards decided to build a new run of 25 “reimagined” road cars, using authentic chassis sourced from UK-imported Impreza WRX models. It’s a matter of legend that it sold out overnight. Only 424 road cars were ever made – of which 400 were for Japan and just 16 for the UK. We had arranged to meet for lunch at a welcoming Cotswolds pub called The Fox at Oddington and then take the P25 for a shakedown drive of our own.Ībout 18 months ago, Banbury-based Prodrive came up with a plan to celebrate its WRC heritage and progress the 22B, itself a commemorative model unveiled at the 1997 Tokyo motor show to mark the 40th anniversary of Subaru and it winning three consecutive World Rally Championship manufacturers’ titles. It had been driven on shakedown by Prodrive’s founder and chairman, David Richards, who will soon start delivering cars to customers in earnest. And the starting point for that tribute is Subaru’s ultra-rare 1997 Impreza 22B STi.

Within a minute, front and centre, its exhaust ticking from the heat, stood the final prototype of the P25, a restomod that celebrates the 25th anniversary of the first title success for the Subaru Impreza WRC.