The Subaru Impreza WRX has always lived in the shadow of the full-house STI’s enormous rear wing; a bit softer, a bit slower, a whole lot less exciting. Or at least that’s what you might think.
I wrote about this dire state in these pages last August, saying that the way to save the model and bring excitement back to Subaru was to release a WRX STI. Take the WRX and drop the suspension, fit ...
Subaru has decided that the car you see on these pages will no longer be called Impreza, just WRX STI. From now on the famous name will be applied only to the more mundane variants of the model.
The STi is more powerful and much harder riding. It is a fierce performer, although not as agile as the Mitsubishi Lancer Evo. In later years, the base WRX has STi-like styling and some of the STi ...