Posted Tuesday, July 16, 2024 at 9:29pm

SUBARU’S GOODWOOD-CONQUERING STEALTH BEAST

It looked awesome. It sounded even better. It was the very definition of sendy. But what was the Subaru that shook Goodwood on Sunday?

It’s fairly rare for cars that conquer Pikes Peak to come to Chichester on England’s south coast and not win the Sunday Shootout at the Festival of Speed. Romain Dumas upheld that tradition with Ford’s Supervan 4.2 nicely. Nothing could compete with the 1400 electric horses the Frenchman had on tap.

And when it was wheeled out of the paddock for the first time on Thursday morning, not too many gave Subaru Motorsports USA and Vermont SportsCar’s latest creation much of a second glance. Until they got close. Or within earshot.