There used to be a time when owning a Subaru WRX meant people in Essex bowed to you. That time is probably gone, and now the coolest Suby out there is the BRZ, a sports coupe developed in partnership with Toyota.
Powering the BRZ is a new-in-2012 2-liter boxer engine. It's a cool little motor with Toyota indirect fuel injection and symmetrical exhaust pipes for a beautiful sound. It's perfect… but lacks power. That's where the most famous Subaru tuner in all of Britain comes in. Litchfield makes rally cars, roll cages and suspension that will blow you away. For them, giving more power to the BRZ was no problem.
What Subaru engineers said was impossible is not so. Litchfield found a way to fit a supercharger under the bonnet of the car and with the help of intercoolers and better engine breathing boosted the engine output to 280 hp.
Supercar spotter Shmee150 took the opportunity to film the Litchfield BRZ at the Bruntingthorpe airfield and we're glad he did. The car is very fast for its class and sounds brutal through Miltek exhaust.
Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida. Full profile
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