
Subaru Impreza S6 WRC #3 R. Burns / R. Reid Rally Catalunya 2000 Otto 1:18

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Specifications
- Year
- 2000
- Era
- 2000s
- Body Type
- Rally Models
- Vehicle Class
- WRC Classic
- Openable Parts
- No
- Packaging Condition
- New
- Model Type
- Race Models
- EAN / GTIN
- 9580010222711
About the Subaru Impreza S6 WRC #3 R. Burns / R. Reid Rally Catalunya 2000 Otto 1:18
TL;DR: Otto's 1:18 resin Subaru Impreza S6 WRC reproduces the #3 car driven by Richard Burns and Robert Reid at Rally Catalunya 2000, in full Subaru World Rally Team livery. Sealed resin construction holds sharp sponsor graphics and rally-spec details that diecast tooling would blur.
Richard Burns spent 2000 building toward the title he'd win the following year, and this Otto resin replica freezes one specific round of that campaign, the #3 Impreza on Catalunya's tarmac stages.
Otto's Sealed Resin Rally Livery
Rally cars carry dense sponsor decals, number boards, and multi-color panel graphics, and that is exactly where resin construction earns its keep. Otto casts this Impreza as a sealed body, no opening doors or hood, which lets the tampo-printed livery sit crisp across every panel edge without the seam lines a diecast hinge would introduce. The WRC-spec wheel arches, roof scoop, and rally lighting pods come through as fine, hand-finished detail rather than simplified toy-grade shapes. Resin's tradeoff is straightforward: collectors get sharper graphics and truer proportions at the cost of interior accessibility, a fair exchange for a livery-driven subject like a factory rally car. At 1:18, the model's stance and ride height read correctly for a gravel-and-tarmac rally special, with the wide fender flares that defined the S6-generation Impreza's homologated shape.
Richard Burns and Robert Reid on Catalunya's Stages
Richard Burns joined Subaru's World Rally Team full-time in 1999 and spent 2000 building the form that carried him to the 2001 World Rally Championship title, driving alongside co-driver Robert Reid throughout that period. Rally Catalunya, run on closed tarmac roads in Spain, was part of the calendar's mixed-surface challenge that separated genuine title contenders from one-surface specialists. The #3 car number reflects Subaru's factory entry status that season, running as a full works effort rather than a satellite team. For a Subaru shelf, this Catalunya-liveried Impreza sits naturally alongside other Burns-era WRC replicas, tracing the build-up to his championship year, a distinction that matters to anyone assembling a season-by-season WRC display.













