Synonymous with future World Rally Championship title winners Colin McRae and Richard Burns in the early 1990s, it’s easy to see why the Subaru Legacy RS became a cult classic.
It’s a machine that struck a chord with a young Craig Breen, the now 32-year-old Irishman going on to forge his own rallying story in the WRC driving for Citroen, Hyundai and now M-Sport Ford. Rallying runs in the family, courtesy of Craig’s 2005 Irish national champion father Ray, and Breen says the Subaru Legacy RS “has a special place in my heart”.
Subaru had dabbled in the WRC courtesy of its Group A Leone challenger in the 1980s, but it was the Legacy RS’s arrival in 1990 that ignited the Japanese manufacturer’s charge to the summit of rallying’s top tier and following period of global domination with the Impreza.
Developed by David Richards’ Prodrive operation, the 400-horsepower Legacy RS endured a slow start to life in the WRC’s Group A era, with Markku Alen achieving a best of…
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