Admit it, the nineties won’t exactly be remembered as one of history’s most influential decades. The World Wide Web aside, the period gave us marginally better hair and attire than the eighties, Friends, Seinfeld, mushrooming pop culture and Windows 95.
Motorsport’s top echelon lost a legend in Ayrton Senna in 1994, but saw the rise of Michael Schumacher.
Likewise, far from tarred circuits on the outskirts of urbanised civilisation emerged what would debatably be the decade’s most defining automotive icon, one that would influence car culture, performance motoring, video games and, some might say, even film.
It was fast. It was furious. Yet curiously, before 1993, students of speed residing in the western hemisphere had hardly ever even heard – or thought – of Subaru as representing any rapidity.
The arrival of the Impreza in 1993 changed
