The Prodrive P25 shouldn’t actually enchantment to me. As a reminder, it’s a reinterpretation of a 1997 WRC Subaru Impreza, however with 2023 parts, know-how and know-how.

Crucially, it doesn’t require an engineering workforce to run it and you’ll – effectively, might – apply it to the highway. It does come at a value: greater than £550,000.

I suppose it’s geared toward the one that liked WRC within the ’90s, has come into some cash over the previous 25 years and now needs to relive that point.

That may be very a lot not me: I used to be 5 on the time and I typically suppose Subaru Imprezas are a bit naff. I harbour no nostalgia in any way for Colin McRae and Richard Burns.

But I like a singular driving expertise, and flinging the P25 round a humid Anglesey circuit was precisely that.

Driving it under nine-tenths is pointless, aside from to get to a location the place you may drive it flat out, so that you must be on a circuit or a closed highway.

On a monitor, I’m typically a really easy driver – gently pouring the automotive in to corners and never upsetting the steadiness, however the P25 woke up a latent rally driver in me.

It quickly turned clear that the P25 likes to rotate into corners off the facility, with the fantastically mild but communicative steering speaking you thru each diploma of rotation.

Then there’s a second, and a selection. With its four-wheel drive and complex diffs, it’s by no means going to settle into a mild powerslide, so that you must both collect it up and be in your approach or Commit. With a capital C.