The Red car linked above from A1 to me does not look like a Prodrive Edition from that era.
It looks to be a UK Turbo 2000 with a few dress-up bits.
The Rear Spoiler is either a genuine Prodrive WR or a copy (there were a few copies about many years ago) and looks to be the only Prodrive item on it. It may be an original (an expensive) spoiler as the brake light looks to be slightly recessed, were the copies it sat more flush.
If the car were a Prodrive it would have a numbered plaque on the centre console and it would also have Prodrive Recaro seats, to the same design as the Series McRae.
The seats in it, are early WRX (1993 - Sept 1994), so it looks like the lesser spec UK grey seats (not buckets) were replaced with these. I doubt very much the Recaro's were replaced, as they are a far superior seat.
It is also unlikely to be 280BHP. Even with the Prodrive ECU modification (which was a very rare fitted option back then), they were only rated to 240BHP.
Saying all of the above, the car looks very clean for it's age, just a bad bit of false advertising.
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