Posted Monday, July 29, 2024 at 11:19pm
Subaru’s North American rally division got us all on edge recently when it started teasing ‘Project Midnight’, a mad-looking one-off based on the Subaru WRX, built with one purpose: going very quickly up the hill at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed.
In those teasers, we were promised a “radical departure” from the usual Subaru fare that would “shock the crowd in a completely different way.” Those vague statements made us think that maybe, just maybe, Subaru was lining up something with an electric drivetrain. Erm, no, as it turns out.
Project Midnight has now been unveiled in full and, to quote a certain Mercedes Formula 1 driver, crikey. It’s a spiritual successor to ‘Airslayer’, the 862bhp WRX STI built for Travis Pastrana’s Gymkhana 2020 film.
