Subaru Impreza test drive since 2007 sedan

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Subaru Impreza

There are many cars in the world that provoke a driver to dynamic and even extreme driving. To the honor of Subaru Impreza, it is important to note that it not only spurns the driver, but also reliably insures.

At the wheel of this car, you involuntarily feel like a kind of Schumacher, even if you intend to just go to the bakery. The fairy tale begins even before you sat behind the wheel. To open the door of a parked car, it is not necessary to remove the key from the pocket. Impreza has already recognized you! Now it’s enough to press the inconspicuous button on the handle and the door obediently opens.

The situation is more difficult to start. To do this, you need to squeeze the clutch and at the same time press the brake. After the green signal lights up on the indicator, you only need to press the engine start button. You get used to the good quickly after a couple of days, returning behind the wheel of your own car, I noted with displeasure how much time, it turns out, take manipulations with a traditional non -remote key.

The time is the main capital that allows you to save and increase the new Impreza. The two-liter 150-horsepower engine, even in the first gear with unusual energy, throws the car forward. Involuntarily, the driver has to hurry. And now the second, followed by the third, and on the speedometer is already a hundred. So the bakery does not slip long! Carefully press the brake pedal to Impreza to the extent to the best, but still require a special approach and attention. At the same time slowing down, we stick the impreza into the free space between parked cars with a run. A small sports steering wheel, covered in leather, allows you to complete this dashing maneuver with almost any risk. And all -wheel drive gives additional guarantees that your car has not taken a centimeter from the planned trajectory of movement.

I will explain to those who are not yet aware that the uniqueness of Subaru cars is determined primarily, a low -located center of gravity, a branding system of all -wheel drive and excellent weighting. The first is achieved by the use of opposition engines, the second know-how of the company is never fully disclosed to anyone. Well, the excellent weight of the fruit of the huge sports experience of Subaru, without any fluctuations transferred to the mass city car Subaru Impreza with an engine of 2 or 1.5 liters, a five -speed fur or a four -speed automatic. I am not talking about electronics here now for everyone, and you will not surprise anyone.

But the drive and amusing is something! At first, you feel as if Impreza does not go along the asphalt, but along the rails, and you are not higher, but significantly lower than the level of this railway canvas. There is a sensation of super -resistance, as if no turn at the highest speed is not able to overturn your car. This, of course, is an illusion, but very close in reality. The effect of super -resistance at high speeds is especially noticeable, which, unfortunately, is allowed to be tested only on a special highway. Starting from 130 km/h Impreza, it seems to be creeping above the ground. This is a real flight, soft and romantic, like on a balloon. Suddenly disappear, the tremors of the configured suspension are ceased to be noticeable, and even the noise of the engine and all-wheel drive transmission, usually quite annoying, disappears somewhere miraculously. Probably he just stays behind?

From 130 to 165 km/h Impreza with an engine of 2 liters is just a song. After the problems begin, two liters are still too little for such a beautiful ride, not to mention one and a half. With great difficulty, Impreza draws the laid 190 and on this figure the shooter freezes tiredly. But how it goes, how this car soars over the road!

Separate praise deserves steering. With all the desire, there is simply nothing to complain about in any speed or maneuver, from overtaking to the most ordinary parking. In combination with all -wheel drive, the steering allows you to work real miracles, so that, for example, it can be calculated with an accuracy of a centimeter. Impreza not only provokes exploits, but also insures the driver to the maximum, reducing the risk of almost zero. This is a real standard of active security with exemplary management systems and ergonomics comfortable for the driver.

At the height and passive safety systems. The design of the body provides for racks and side case frames that surround the interior with a protective capsule. The case is strengthened by ring -shaped amplifying frames, designed to withstand directed influences of various forces. Front air airbags are included in standard equipment, the front side pillows and inflatable curtains can be installed additionally.

Impreza disadvantages are a continuation of its sports advantages. The most vulnerable part is a sports body kit that hangs over the ground. It is necessary to put up with and forget about the contact parking wheel for the curb. It is not easy to part with this habit, or rather, which is eloquently evidenced by the body kit of the test machine. The owners of the test sample that lost all patience did not even stick to the plastic that had cracked in different places gently dug him, silently admitting that this part of the sports car did not clearly fit into the standards of mass consumption for everyone.

Will Impreza become a new word and new fashion or will remain a car for the elect and capable of turning every trip into the next test of reaction and driver’s skill? There is no answer to this question, but, paraphrasing Hemingway, we can confidently say that Subaru Impreza is a safe but fascinating extreme that is always with you. Unless, of course, you are stopped by prices from 730 thousand rubles for a version with a 2 -liter engine.

Debit: 2007.
Length/width/height: 4.415/1.740/1.475 mm.
Base: 2.620 mm.
Equipped mass: 1.345 kg.
Engine volume: 1.994 cm3.
Power: 150 hp
Maximum torque: 196 Nm (at 3.200 rpm)
Maximum speed: 193 km/h.
Acceleration to 100 km/h: 9.6 sec.
Average fuel consumption: 8.4 l/100 km.
Price: 730,000 rubles (as of 03.2008).