Subaru's long and distinguished history in the world of rallying is about to get another chapter, as it's set to field a team in the Global RallyCross Championship. The car? The all-new WRX STI.

Fuji Heavy Industries, parent company of Subaru, has announced that it will submit a homologation application to the FIA for the Impreza WRX STi Spec C to rally as a Group N vehicle in 2006.

When it was at its peak in the late nineties the Subaru, in its pre-WRX Impreza ... Wales Rally GB. There’s the effervescent spirit of a competition car desperate to burst out of the STi ...

As one of Subaru ... Rally Blue paint and gold 17-inch alloys were standard; sports suspension, uprated brakes and 18-inch wheels were options. In 2006 a less extreme-looking WRX STI arrived ...