Subaru Impreza World Rally Race Car Prodrive New Book

This book describes the birth, development, and rallying career of the turbocharged, four-wheel-drive Subaru Impreza in the 1990s and early 2000s, providing a compact and authoritative history of where, when and how it became so important to the sport.

Features:
• Full detailed history of each marques rally career
• Full detailed story of concept, design, development
• Unrivalled coverage of people and influences behind the cars
• Step by step coverage of technical evolution
• Description of cars, why, how and when evolved
• Description of principal people (managers, drivers, engineers) involved
• Many many pictures, not only of cars in action, but of details and people
• Comparison with rivals
• Complete listing of important successes
• Complete listing of ‘works’ xcars

• The car and the team
• Inspiration
• The Impreza’s importance in rallying
• Facing up to rival cars
• Homologation – meeting the rules
• Engineering features
• Impreza World Rally Car
• Was the Impreza unique?
• Building and running the works cars
• Personalities and star drivers
• Competition story
• The Impreza’s career
• 1993
• 1994
• 1995
• 1996
• 1997
• 1998
• 1999
• 2000
• 2001
• 2002
• 2003
• 2004
• 2005
• The Impreza’s successor
• Works rally cars – World Championship rallies (and when first used)
• World/major European rally wins

Overdrive magazine - April 2007
The Subaru Impreza is known the world over as a racing thoroughbred. Renowned auto historian Graham Robson and Veloce Publishing have put together an ode to the Impreza for aficionados to revel in.

The Subaru blue portrait splashed on the cover is an eye catcher. The birth of the Impreza is unveiled in elaborate detail with styling cues, engine details and a myriad aspects are laid out comprehensively.

The reader is treated to a stunning portfolio of photographs of the car in action, even as one is furnished with data on the competition the Impreza was up against.The Flat 4 engine, and how it gradually evolved has been elaborated on – a surefire highlight of the book.

Author Graham Robson has given the daredevils behind the wheel their due, with not just what they accomplished on track, but dispensing little known personal details as well.

Robson provides an overview of the Impreza era that began in 1993, the changes made to the car and how it all worked. But that's not all, as the reader is furnished insight into the Impreza successor as well. Robson spotlights the Impreza's victorious reign in an easy to decipher chart.

The volume also affords a canny glimpse into the world of rallying. The book acknowledges tthe sterling efforts of Prodrive of England, involved with works competition cars since advent, for furnishing the expertise and knowhow that paved the way to glory for the Impreza. A must-have for Impreza fans.

Hot4s.com.au (Australia) - May 2007
For nearly 20 years, Prodrive has run the works in regards to Subaru's rally prowess, including providing the expertise that has seen them storm the championship scene. As well as detailing this story, this book also provides a highly in-depth look at the Impreza itself, with full specifications and achievements of all the WRC models.

The compact book is chock-full of great colour photos, many with the WRX seemingly airborne, and no doubt on its way to another victory. Text-wise, a good chunk of everything is devoted to a year-by-year breakdown of the car's achievements, with a car and team section up the front providing information on everything from the inspiration behind the model to its star drivers.

All that said if you're a rally buff, or just love Subaru's muscled-up monster, this is the perfect book for you to pursue.

Hemming Sports & Exotic Car - May 2007
You know we're nuts for rally in all its forms, and have a special fondness for Subaru rally cars. So if the latest installment in Veloce's Rally Giants series on the Subaru Impreza impressed us, you know it's worthwhile.

The book covers the development of the company, the race program and the cars in depth, before plunging into the World Rally era of Colin McRae, Tommi Makinen and Fetter Solberg. With access to the factory racing photo archives, driver profiles and a riveting season-byseason retrospective, we enjoyed all 124 pages.