SUBARU WRX

Last and far from least is an early Subaru Impreza WRX. For a generation the favoured get-away car for the underworld it really helped set up a whole new sub-class of performance car both here and worldwide. Half of them have probably ended up in trees or at the wreckers. Though offering huge bang for your buck, they’re running a complex drive train which can’t be cheap to rebuild and that would have killed off a few well-worn examples. The holy grail would be the first STi, though I suspect we’re talking mega-bucks. Nope, anything in good nick across the GC8B or C range would be fine and, somehow, the quirky hatchback variant has appeal. Finding an unmolested version could take a whole lot of time and patience, and I wouldn’t be at all surprised if we were talking mid-twenties in exchange for the keys.