Highlights Rare and highly desirable iconic rally car for the road One owner from new Very low mileage 280bhp, flat-four turbocharged engine Five-speed manual gearbox Some recommissioning required Huge investment potential Overview Sitting rather comfortably in the upper echelons of iconic Japanese performance cars is the Subaru Impreza, with part of that legendary status owed to its numerous rally successes at the hands of Colin McRae and Richard Burns.

However, not all Imprezas were created equal and the sheer number of special editions over multiple generations can be a little overwhelming.

Surely we can all agree that the first-gen Subaru Impreza P1 is a bit of a stand out track though and perhaps even the best of the bunch overall? When the P1 was introduced in 2000 the craze for road-going WRC cars was in full swing.

We simply couldn't get enough of Subaru's performance models but alas, us Brits were a bit hard done by when it came to the truly special models that were largely...