The Top 20 Cars For A Budget Restomod

August 26, 2017

Subaru Impreza WRX

Yet another surprising candidate on this list, but before you get your pitchforks, I’ve got good reasoning for this. The Subaru Impreza WRX is one of the greatest rally cars ever made, and while it may not beat a V8 in a drag race, it drives like a dream, and can handle corners or off-roading with élan. Coming equipped with 122ci turbocharged four-cylinder engines, they’re also cheaper to run than gas gulping V8s. This was a big part of their appeal to European and Asian markets: they effectively mated practicality with speed, better than any other car around, other than maybe the other rally-derived behemoth, the Mitsubishi Lancer Evo series.

If you won’t settle for anything less, you can fit a small-block V8 under the hood with some modification, which will turn it into a superb hot rod. Bodywork can also be extensively modified, thanks to cheap spare parts, but they’re not the easiest parts to come by. Just try to do them better than the countless teens who’ve foisted awful bodymods on their Imprezas. The best part? These cars weren’t ever expensive to begin with, so you should be able to pick one up pretty cheaply.

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