FIRST IMPREZAS COUNT
Jul 16, 2019
4 minutes
WORDS: PHIL WHITE
To British eyes the Impreza seemed to come from nowhere. One moment we were celebrating Ford’s Sierra Cosworth as a psychotic icon of motoring madness, the next our rally stages were bristling with Imprezas, which then proceeded to dominate British motorsport for more than a decade and a half. As a road car the Impreza also excelled, and it is perfectly reasonable to hail it as a car that took the 1990s by storm.
In doing so it established Subaru as a manufacturer to be reckoned with. Subarus were a rare sight in the UK until 1989, when the Legacy arrived on our shores. This quickly established itself
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