top gear just had the p2 ripping up there track

PRODRIVE ..... MAKE AND SELL THEM I WANT ONE!!!!!!!!

 

i agree looks like a class car and i saw it at the autosport show and it looks great

come on sell it plzzz

 

Shouldn't this be in Other Marques??

 

nit picking much !

 

no top gear for 5 weeks yet another reason to not like football

 

Hardly

Would you expect a Lotus car to appear as 'own marque' on a Vauxhall or Proton website.

 

£40,000

Does Prodrive have access or a factory to mass produce the P2?

 

my opinion is ya cant have subaru without prodrive my be thats wrong i dont know

no biggi either way

 

they said not ...m8

 

Why

Subaru Running gear is enough for me.



And the Rally Slag sound mmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

If as said on Top Gear they have no intention of producing it why release a price tag

 

and why didnt subaru pay attention to prodrive and make the new impreza look more like that...?!?!

kicks the *** of the evo...!!!

 

And if they ever did realese it theres no way in gods earth it would be £40k, imagine the production costs of the electronics alone, not to mention active diffs, AP brakes, trick engine etc etc

 

I thought anti-lag was illegal for road use anyway?

 

without the diff it got round in the same time as the 05STi did it not? don't think that justifys over £10,000 more than an impreza tbh. but looks wise its the dogs danglies

 

it sounded great with the anti lag. but it does make me think that thats one or the reasons why they dont want to make because the engine, turbo, exhaust system will not last long with it on.

 

Gotta be the reason to bombard Prodrive with a petition!

 

Just fit the ATD system to the impreza and it won't be far off.

I drove an early version of the electronic diff system on a JDM bugeye sti at their test track a couple years back and it was astonishing even then.

 

That cone test was amazing - 30mph with it off before understeer and 50+ mph before Clarkson lost his lunch?

Is it good though? Any **** can drive it fast, true skill and experience will count for nothing (well, not as much anyway)

As for mass production - it will never happen. The costs involved are astronomical and they couldn't risk even the slightest risk of failure, that would be the end of them.

 

Is it good though? Any **** can drive it fast, true skill and experience will count for nothing (well, not as much anyway)

What does that mean exactly, where will it count for nothing?

Great looking car, but as others have said it's the electronics that are the real difference between current Impreza and the P2.

BTW what the **** is Anti Lag?

 

Martin, anti-lag is a way of keeping the turbo spinning at it's most efficient to keep boost pressure up whilst changing gear as the turbo would naturally slow down at this point as there's less air going through the system when you drop the clutch and the engine slows for a moment...

There's a few ways of doing it - burning fuel in the exhust pipework before the turbo, pressure reservoirs etc.

The crackling / banging noise you get on rally cars when they change gear is generally anti-lag systems

 

When the stig drive it, it looked like it bounced and pitched all over the place. So lots of grip, great roadholding and performance but poor in the handling dept.

 

The drive around the track looked f**king awful IMO. Agree with the above. Maybe a combination of bigger turbo + anti-lag + not Stig mapped.

On the corners it looked like it lacked granularity in the throttle department.

With the power and (lack of) weight, it should be good for another 3-4 seconds off the time.

Maybe perverse but what I want is the P2 running gear in the crappy city car they based it all on. Complete with 650cc 12V stickers.

J.

 

yes

 

WRC cars have to be road legal, so I guess not.

 

Would like to see the mpg and g/km for an anti-lag equipped vehicle. Burning fuel to keep the turbo spinning when you might not need it, and blowing flames out the exhaust has to be bad news for the environment

 

Great looking car.... with so much promiss...

It is indeed a shame there are "no plans " to manufacture it... Prodrive may not necessarily have the resources to devote to producing & selling the car, but Subaru have....

Come on Subaru - It's a cracking car..... Build it for us....

 

Prodrives ANIT Lag system is not the robust mechanism it has been on other systems. I was speaking to a ex-prodrive mechanic and his oath of secrecy didn't permit him to say much, but it is in fact "positive lag" and his mannerisms as he proceeded to baffle me suggested that it really was a trick bit of kit

 

And why does Jezza always get dump-valves and wastegates mixed up!

 

Anti-lag is turned off for the road sections though