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It's real! Subaru WRC program was basically F1 for gravel.
I knew that the "WRX" grew out of Subaru's attempt to make and to race an F1 car. The cars were never competitive--in fact, Subaru became kind of a laughing stock--because the flat-four was simply too heavy. They were spotting the competition 300-400 lbs. And there was simply no way to lighten the car. I don't know how much of that was just hearsay, and how much was fact, but clearly that engine was the genesis for the WRC cars.

Somehow I always assumed that the JDM STI was a lot like the WRC cars. Sort of an affordable rally racer, much like the newest Corvettes are genuine super cars for less than a fourth of what super cars cost in the rest of the world.
 
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