Subaru Impreza (Rally Giants Series)

By: Graham Robson . 9781787113220

This book describes the birth, development, and rallying career of the turbocharged, four-wheel-drive Subaru Impreza in the 1990s and early 2000s, providing a compact and authoritative history of where, when and how it became so important to the sport.

Subaru Impreza: Rally Giant is really the story of two enterprises, and several cars - not only is this a book about a rally car - the turbocharged Impreza - but about Prodrive, which has run the works competition cars since the very beginning. For nearly twenty years, Prodrive of Banbury, England, has provided the expertise, and the know-how, to help turn Subaru's vision into success. Detailing the specifications and achievements of the original and the WRC models, and packed with colour photographs, this is the story of the cars, the companies and the drivers that made the Subaru Impreza a true Rally Giant.

Features

• Full detailed history of each marques rally career
• Full detailed story of concept, design, development
• Unrivalled coverage of people and influences behind the cars
• Step by step coverage of technical evolution
• Description of cars, why, how and when evolved
• Description of principal people (managers, drivers, engineers) involved
• Many many pictures, not only of cars in action, but of details and people
• Comparison with rivals
• Complete listing of important successes
• Complete listing of ‘works’ xcars