Tue, 06/30/2009 - 11:04 — superuser
Impreza WRX is a superbly well sorted urban rocket with styling that won’t attract those unmarked devils”
Model tested: 2008 Subaru Impreza WRX five-door hatch (a four-door sedan version is available in the US and we should get it last quarter 2008)
I’ll be honest, I’ve never really been into the styling of the previous generations of the WRX despite having enormous respect for what Subaru has achieved over the years with this iconic car.
I first drove a WRX back in 1994, the year I put my first television series on cars together. The show was called Behind the Wheel and was hosted by James Morrison (yes the muso and self obsessed rally driver), Dick Johnson and Kevin Bartlett on the Ten Network. It was the first WRX released in Australia and this was the car I wanted to star in the opening sequence.
I only drove the car for ten minutes or so, but that was enough to wonder, how on earth Subaru could build a car with such phenomenal performance and sell it for less than $40,000!
I’m absolutely certain I was smiling like a Cheshire cat when I blasted up Warringah Road in Sydney’s northern Beaches, at a velocity which had me speechless at the time.
By: Anthony Crawford