To celebrate the return of Richard Burns to the Subaru WRC team, Subaru built 444 special edition cars. Since Richard's WRC car number was #5, they cleverly named the car RB5.

There were two specifications of car released; the std edition and a WR Sport version.

Standard Specification:-

• Blue steel metallic body colour (colour code 86F which is "cool" grey on the STi imports)

• Solid rear bulkhead (RB5 uses the STI6 bodyshell)

• Fully colour-coded exterior (i.e. door mirrors, door handles, side skirts, front & rear under-spoilers, driving lamp covers)

• Blue 'Alcantara' and suede-effect interior trim, with black 'jersey' surround on seats

• Special graphite trim for the centre console

• Air con

• Special 'Speedline' 17in, 6 spoke, alloy wheels in 'pewter' colour with Pirelli 'P Zero' 205/45 ZR17 tyres

• PIAA front driving light conversion for the fog lights

• Prodrive quickshift

• Roof-mounted map reading lamps

• Special, RB5 side and rear decals (and also on driving light covers)

• Special, RB5 embossed carpet mats

• Special, RB5 interior-mounted, numbered plaque "Limited Edition" only 444 available!

• Price on the road ?24,995 excluding the WR Sport package.

WR Sport Version (same spec as above, but with the following additions) :-

• Prodrive High wing (similar to the STi 5 but with the brake light on the wing rather than boot lid)

• Prodrive re-mapped ECU, STI de-cat centre section and Prodrive back box

• Prodrive Inter-cooler piping

• Price on the road ?27,500 including the WR Sport package.

Rather than concentrating on unusable top end power the Performance Package develops most of its benefit in the all important mid-range where it is in its element for over taking and real world driving .

Here are some pictures of my own car on the day I collected it from my dealer Fraser Anderson, Stirling.  Unfortunately Fraser Anderson have since closed down.