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Subaru Impreza #4 C. McRae / D. Ringer Winner RAC Rally 1994 Kyosho 1:18

Subaru Impreza #4 C. McRae / D. Ringer Winner RAC Rally 1994 Kyosho 1:18 08962A Diecast
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Kyosho's 1:18 diecast Subaru Impreza 555 reproduces car #4, driven by Colin McRae and Derek Ringer to victory on the 1994 RAC Rally, McRae's home event and a career-defining result on the road to his 1995 world title. Blue and gold livery with tampo-printed sponsor graphics stays sharp on a zinc alloy body. Opening doors and hood expose cabin and engine bay detail at a standard mid-tier diecast price point.
Subaru Impreza #4 C. McRae / D. Ringer Winner RAC Rally 1994 Kyosho 1:18
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Specifications
Brand
Subaru
Manufacturer
Kyosho
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
New Model
SKU
08962A
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About the Subaru Impreza #4 C. McRae / D. Ringer Winner RAC Rally 1994 Kyosho 1:18

TL;DR: Kyosho's 1:18 diecast Subaru Impreza 555 recreates car #4, driven by Colin McRae and Derek Ringer to victory on the 1994 RAC Rally, McRae's home event and a milestone on his path to the 1995 world title. Opening doors and hood suit a mid-tier World Rally Championship diecast.

Home rallies carry extra weight for a driver, and Colin McRae's 1994 RAC Rally win did exactly that, a result British fans still point to when the conversation turns to his best drives. This Impreza 555 preserves that specific car.

Kyosho's McRae Livery in 1:18 Diecast

Blue and Gold Body Detail

Kyosho applies Subaru's blue and gold livery in tampo print, holding the color separation crisp along the Impreza's boxy saloon panels and rear spoiler rather than letting the yellow lower sections bleed into the blue upper body. Auxiliary driving lamps sit ahead of the grille as separately fitted pieces, and the roof aerial and rally-spec wheel arch extensions read correctly for a forest-rally build rather than a smoothed road-car shape. Race number 4 registers cleanly against the gold background on the doors and roof, matched to the specific McRae/Ringer entry rather than a placeholder number. The wide rally wheels sit properly within flared arches, and the ride height matches a four-wheel-drive rally car set up for loose surfaces rather than a lowered tarmac stance.

Weight, Hinges, and Mid-Tier Positioning

The body's zinc alloy construction gives the model real heft in the hand, appropriate for a rally car whose competitive edge came partly from a low center of gravity and genuine mechanical grip. Doors and hood open on metal hinges to a simplified but recognizable cabin and engine bay, positioning this Impreza in the same mid-tier diecast bracket as Kyosho's other 1990s WRC subjects. That bracket sits comfortably above entry-level fixed-panel diecast and below sealed-resin rally specialists, a fair trade for a collector who wants opening features and accurate livery work without paying investment-tier prices. Buying across several liveries from McRae's career at this price point builds a fuller shelf than one premium piece could.

Colin McRae's RAC Rally Breakthrough

A Home Win on Forest Stages

RAC Rally ran on Britain's forest stages, narrow gravel tracks cut through dense woodland where visibility, weather, and constantly changing grip levels punished any driver who pushed beyond the car's limits. For McRae, a Scot who had grown up rallying similar terrain, the event carried a home-crowd intensity few other rounds matched, and winning it in 1994 turned him into a genuine national story rather than just another promising talent on the World Rally Championship grid. The Impreza 555's turbocharged flat-four and permanent four-wheel drive suited the loose, unpredictable surfaces well, and Ringer's pace notes gave McRae the confidence to push at a pace few rivals could match on unfamiliar sections of the route.

The Road to the 1995 World Title

This RAC Rally win sat inside the run of results that carried McRae to the 1995 World Rally Championship drivers' title, the moment Subaru's factory program reached its competitive peak. For a collector building a shelf around McRae's career rather than Subaru's broader output, this #4 car marks a specific turning point rather than a generic season entry, and it pairs naturally with title-year liveries from the seasons that followed. At close to 20 centimeters long, it fits a standard display shelf alongside other mid-1990s WRC subjects without demanding extra space.

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