Subaru SVX

Giorgetto Giugiaro-styled grand tourer - Subaru's wildly ambitious early-90s flagship. Window-in-window split-glass doors (an aircraft cue), 3.3-litre EG33 flat-six, AWD with electronically-controlled centre diff, four-speed automatic only (no manual ever offered). 240 bhp / 309 Nm, 0-62 in 7.3 seconds, 144 mph - genuinely fast for the era. UK got a small allocation 1992-1995 before sales were quietly dropped. Always rare on UK roads. The SVX is the strangest, most ambitious Subaru ever sold - flat-six luxury GT with rally-ready AWD, in a body shaped like nothing else. Production ended 1997 with no successor. The Italian-Japanese fusion-coupe nobody asked for - and one of the great forgotten 90s GTs.