Highlights Cosworth supercharged example - 280bhp / 230 lb-ft Extensively, but tastefully, upgraded Under 37,000 miles from new Fastidious ownership The car the BRZ was always meant to be? Overview Whilst the Toyota-badged stablemate the GT86 might be the better-known and more common example of the duo, the Subaru BRZ is arguably the more important, as it was Subaru who built and supplied the FA20 engines, so without the BRZ, we’d have no GT86.

That rarity factor is also an evergreen appeal to enthusiasts, who love nothing more than being able to one-up their friends at a game of pub Top Trumps (other card games are available).

With the much-loved genre of lightweight, compact, RWD manual sports cars edging ever-closer to extinction (with a few notable exceptions, largely thanks to our friends in Japan), cars such as the BRZ are already feeling like a rare beast, and whilst they aren’t quite sitting in the hallowed ‘modern classic’ bracket yet, they have a strong enthusiast following...