Subaru is a brand loved by performance enthusiasts all over the globe and, while the Gunma firm achieved some impressive feats with its earlier Legacy, it’s the original GC8 generation of WRX that most enthusiasts will regard as the ultimate.

You already know the story: winning mechanicals from the Legacy RS wrapped in a new, smaller and agile body and, three consecutive World Rally Constructor titles later, the results spoke for themselves.

There were myriad special editions…