Subaru's Vintage Garage series previously showed us the Fuji Rabbit scooter and the dumpy little 360 coupe. Neat, but ugly and slow. This time, they've decided to damn the torpedos and give us video of what's possibly the best Subaru of all time. King of the WRXs, it's the 22B.

This 1998 special was made with a hand-built, stroked 2.2-liter boxer engine putting out 276 hp, and its rally blue paint job and aggressive fender flares are seared into the imaginations of Subie enthusiasts everywhere. The "22" denotes the slightly higher displacement (and closed-deck block), and Subaru indicates that the "B" is an internal code meaning "turbo." We'd prefer to think it stands for "badass."

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Just 400 were built to celebrate both Subaru's 40th anniversary and the triple WRC championship handed to the company by much-missed rally driver Colin McRae. All 400 were sold online in Japan only, but there were a further 24 later built for overseas markets. We never officially saw an example, and Subaru calls this one of only two such vehicles currently in the US.

Unlike the WRX and STI we currently get, it's raw and elemental, lightweight, and more prone to slide. Sure, we're excited to get our hands on the new WRX and STI, but we'd happily start eBay-ing the internal organs for a shot behind the wheel of this machine.

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