Subaru Impreza test drive since 2007 sedan

"Art - to the masses!"

The new Impreza changes old loyal fans to those who do not care with the door of their Subaru or not. The new buyer should be attracted by a more European design, the same all -wheel drive and price that makes a car with a cult name relatively affordable.

Read the full version of the text in the December issue of the Wheel magazine.



 
Before us is a classic case when the dreams of fans are crashed on the plans of calculating marketers. The new Impreza is an excursion into the past: when she and Lancer went to the nostril in the nostril in pursuit of her buyer. However, in recent years, the Subaru golf class has remained in Russia unattainable for most of our compatriots by a sports car while the budget versions of Lancer have won the market.
 

In Fuji Heavy Industries, apparently, they decided: we must catch up! Impreza a year ago ceased to be an inaccessible dream: it was noticeably in price and lost speed. Now the most famous racing labels have become closer to each other and in small versions: both have 1.5-liter motors of similar power (107 hp in Subaru and 109 in Mitsu), similar levels of basic configuration and a salon of classic urban cars. Plus: Impreza is the only Holf Class car with constant all-wheel drive. Minus to that: the cheapest Subaru is still more expensive than all Japanese class cars with ...
 

When it comes to the design of the new Subaru, even its apologists begin to think thoughtfully about the fact that, they say, they do not argue about tastes and their connoisseurs should have a new look. I agree: if you find recognizable features in the Impreza style, then far from worst design samples like BMW 1-series or Mazda3 come up. And personally, I even like the LED rear optics and the barred loopholes of the tumor.
  

Changes in the interior are exclusively in marketing goals. To fight for the client as a city (read mass) car for each day, the new Impreza was simply obliged to become more solid and comfortable. Well, the Subaru salon is not inferior to modern representatives of the golf class, but in this case this is not a compliment, if you look at the price of the machine. The quality of fitting interior details is at a high level, but the materials could be more expensive. The doorways have become wider, so now it is not easier to climb inside. But the price of this, you see, is not God the news of what achievement was too high: the frames appeared at the Impreza door! You imagine: Subaru and the framework !!!
 

The new Subaru Impreza, like the previous one, allows, passing the turn, not to remove the leg from the right pedal. The drivers of front -wheel drive cars do not understand this: when in the apex of the turn the stern begins to be demolished, it is worth just giving more, and the rear outer wheel assigned the car to the turn, narrowing the trajectory. In such maximum maneuvers, the edge of the front bumper miraculously does not meet with asphalt, but the transverse rolls do not affect controllability. But they allow the vestibular apparatus of passengers easier to endure maneuvers ...
 

The heart of any fan of motorsport begins to fight much more often when it comes to Subaru Impreza engines. But the car fell on the test completely different, it was not dispersed by a modest 1.5 liter four -cylinder atmospheric engine with a capacity of 107 hp/6.000 rpm. This engine loves the speed of maximum power produces at 6200 rpm. With real champions, he is related only to the classic opposition structure for Subaru.

All other indicators are within civilian framework: four valves per cylinder, 142 nm of torque.
 

The next 1.5 liter engine in the list is a version of a 2.0 liter with a working volume of 2.0 liters. The maximum capacity of the opposition unit is 150 liters. With. At 6400 rpm and 196 nm, the thrust is almost maximum, which can be squeezed from a four -cylinder engine without a boost system. The turbocharger is equipped with the top version of the Subaru Impreza WRX 2.5-liter four develops 230 liters. With. And it gives out torque 320 nm already at 2.800 rpm. It should be noted that the American version of this motor is strangled to a modest 170 liter. With. ecology

  
Surprisingly, at the wheel of a new generation Subaru Impreza, you recall such a concept as the smoothness of the course. Comfortable riding succeeds in the hatchback much better than sprint races, and pits and other asphalt defects are practically not noticed. The consequence of this portrait of the proposed owner of the 107-horsepower Impreza. Now, behind the wheel, her is not a desperate egoist, not a concentrated racer and not recognized as (in fairness, we note: a 230-horsepower version of WRX can be satisfied).
 

Another driver may be interested in a low -power car: the head of a small family, a respectable businessman and not a non -mulminer lady who sees in all -wheel drive his salvation from drift on a slippery road.
 

So, do not scold marketers, they just completed their work, trying to discover a new client. And yet, still
 

Three years ago, the Impreza test would guarantee a storm of emotions. With the current 1.5-liter hatchback, I have not experienced half the expected. And is it so important that now I can afford such an impreza
 

The car was provided by RRT, an official Subaru dealer


Text: Alexander Korobchenko
Photo: Roman Ostanin
 
 
 
 
 
 

A source: Wheel magazine [No. 122/2007]