Subaru Impreza news - There will be mud... - 2010

Switch supermarkets. Eat cardboard. Do whatever it takes to find a few extra quid a month. Because Prodrive has just launched this Impreza Group N rally car and for the first time ever, you can have it on a monthly lease plan. Then, after two years when you're the new Seb Loeb, it will be yours (after one final and probably rather fat payment).
 
Or if you've got a spare £120,000, you can buy it upfront. Prodrive reckons it's almost as quick as next year's WRC cars (when the championship switches to less ballistic regs), while costing half as much.
 
The key, we're told, is the air restrictor - its diameter has increased by, erm, a whole millimetre. With the new set of lungs, some high-flow fuel injectors and a tickled ECU, you get 20bhp more than the old car. It also gets new dampers with more travel.
 
And if you go for the lease-plan option, Prodrive will throw in free insurance, which is useful when you hit trees and goats and stuff.