Rally hero
For those of you who have grown up with WRXs as part of the scenery, it may be difficult to comprehend the enormous impact it had on the performance car scene.
While performance all-wheel-drive cars were hardly a new idea, the packaging of the compact Wrex made it accessible to people who might once have only dreamed of getting their hands on something so quick and capable.
As our feature on the series highlights: “Subaru back in the 1980s had won pretty much every local rally title with its 4WD RX Turbo sedan, but nobody wanted an RX as a road car. The WRX was a vastly more saleable prospect, with posters handed out at rallies and motor shows finding their way onto thousands of teen bedroom walls and all of those kids aspiring to one day be ‘Rex’ owners.”
This example is a McCrae version, built to celebrate Colin McCrae’s 1995 world rally championship win. Aside from the eye-popping graphics, it was loaded with other goodies and is a relatively rare car.
It’s with Muscle Car Warehouse in Sydney, priced at $75,000.