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Subaru Impreza WRX - cold car weapons

Subaru (Jap.) Walks. Scattered star cluster in the constellation Taurus. The brightest star of Alion, the third star. In ancient Greek mythology of the Pleiades, seven daughters of Atlanta, whom Zeus turned into stars to protect from encroachments from the insidious Orion.
Through the efforts of the Subaru Prodrive WRT rally team and the many Subaru Impreza GT journalists, which were tired of any automobile extremist, regardless of age, race, marital status and religion. Made in the image and likeness of her sister-radio, until recently, it, in principle, was not much different from the real combat vehicle of the N. since 1994 by a forge, in which civilian bells with proud GT/WRX engraving were stained, there were winding Rat lane Kenya, Australia and New Zealand. Colin Makra, Carlos Sayns, Kenneth Ericksson, Yukha Cancivano, Richard Barnes ... The names of the masters who brought this cold car weapon are still sounded for automobile experts, like Stradivari and Guyarneri for Milan Opera musicians ...
In the recent past, I was lucky to spend six bright and saturated with a fantastic drive of months while driving Impreza GT. On the rights of a person who lived with this machine 15 thousand joint kilometers, I will allow myself to disagree with most praise praise reviews about it, which often appeared in our press. The character of that (alas, already previous) beauty was really fire! It’s just not a car, but a black pearl of Naomi Campbell, who descended to a simple mortal, who dared to imagine himself Flavio Briator. Beautiful, but wayward. Fast but ruined. Sports, but not so luxury, but a means of transportation that at times it was drawn to leave the keys at home and walk to work on foot, without excess shaking and dynamic provocations inevitable on its part. Let the saints and hypocrisy forgive me, but only fleeting intimacy was possible with Impreza GT, and only crazy could dream of family life with such a lady. Or an incurable romantic. Alas, the marriages of crazy and romantics with fatal women rarely bring family happiness ...
Since then, two completely different people live in my physiological shell. A typical case of a split personality caused by contact with a representative of unearthly civilization. The first, from the right hemisphere, a typical layman, soulless practitioner, cynically baking exclusively about material well -being and their own benefits. The second, left tramp from DDT lyrics. The romantic, which lives from a clinical point of view, living with feelings, and not by reason, doomed to complete misunderstanding from the side of his eternally right and prudent visuals and like -minded people surrounding him. Here is the opinion of the old Subaru Impreza GT for each of them.
Right: Impreza GT? This is an inexpensive Asian tin, which was filled with perfect equipment, beautifully painted and put on large wheels, breaking the price comparable to the price of a solid and correct European car for impractical and useless in the household! What is the use of supervisory supervisory motor and gorgeous controlled characteristics from the point of view of motorsport if I need to calmly ride every day, earning an urgent bread and jumping out with friends to nature a dozen times a year? They probably thought about the ergonomics of the salon for a normal person at the end of the quarter: where is the decent comfort and comfort? What are the materials used in the interior design? Why are plastic panels creaking so plaintively? Why is there no illumination of the glove compartment? By whose mercy, I, each time touching the gas pedal, should listen to the jet turbine's jet and tolerate the rigid setting of the suspension, as if I were not going along the city street, but on a rally special storage system? And the rear passengers of this supposedly sedan have no amenities at all except seat belts. Even an ashtray was not attached to them! No, sometimes it’s nice to ride quickly. But I'm not going to bother six seconds to hundreds each time, moving from a place. Or rush along our roads at a speed of 200 km/h. And in general, this supersonic all -wheel drive missile is not affordable for me: the consumption from 13 to 18 liters per 100 km of run, you need to give a thousand dollars for a set of wheels, sellers of striped sticks will be written in two hours and sent to a lifelong link to the passenger for route public galleys. If you take something atomic, then a three-liter third bimer masterpiece of design! And this simpleton for such a temperament has no moral right at all, the breed did not come out!
Left: You say foldly. Correctly. For people like you, Impreza is worse than the plague, because it is not made according to your rules. And not for you ... Her motor is configured, how you listen and confess the church organ! And if you are able to distinguish some other sounds when the music of six thousand turns is heard, leave this car and get out. Do not get her. Do not insult your presence! When you control it, flying every second fifty meters, only a physical membrane that performs the commands of the mind, flying far ahead of the car and sending information about the state of the track and possible behavior at each point of distance, should be in the bucket -like recaro. If at this time you are able to be distracted by a plastic rustle, the first turn will be the last for you. Comfort in Subaru as in a cowboy saddle. If you were born for a riding of another, you do not need for nothing! For the rear passengers of convenience in the yard. They are unlikely to need an ashtray rather, hygiene bags. As for the consumption, Porsche and Ferrari have even higher, and the difference in dynamics is a little! Plus, with their pendants on our roads, there is nothing to do at all, and for the humanized rally Impreza GT scooping scoop, the FIA \u200b\u200bWorld Rally Championship is compared to the murderous lanes. The clearance is only a centimeter less than that of the GAZ-24. Eternal chassis. And rubber lives on it longer than on a monotive. Despite the fact that you can ride a little faster and safer if God awarded the ability to study and analyze errors ... The traffic police inspectors are well versed that they are executed only if Impreza moves not in parallel traffic rules, but in perpendicular.
And as for the breed, then look into the eyes of anyone who lived with this capricious lady at least a couple of thousand joint kilometers. She is for our driver as the sacred Mount Fuji for the Japanese climber. There will be other peaks in life, but this is never ...
... time has passed. It's time to bring Subaru Impreza not just a new model year, but, no less, a new model millennium! The era is changing, people and their addictions are changing. It is unlikely that today you can count on the fact that there are quite specific consumers who are ready without looking at the flagrant discomfort of slightly combed rally rally monsters to seriously fork the purchase of primitive Lancia Delta Integrale, Metro 6R4, Ford Escort Cosworth, Toyota Celica GT-4 or Subaru Impreza Wrx GT. Now the real dinosaurs of the Jurassic Park are successfully replaced by harmless and safe virtual copies, at the sight of which even small children do not cry. The life and laws of commerce put in their places the fire -breathing WRC monsters forever moved to the reserve called the World Rally Championship, and it was time to produce significantly more friendly and philanthropic cars for public roads. Such as the new Subaru Impreza WRX.
Do not expect from me an assessment of the new person Subaru the opinion of a person who is sincerely in love with her predecessor will always be categorical and subjective. I can only say that the new buyer will find the car quite attractive and original. And to those who were ill for the pristine Impreza and Makreza for many years, you should not be upset or have already made their choice and became its owner, or would never have decided to buy that machine. So for you with the advent of a new lineup, absolutely nothing changed, admire your Galatea and wait for Count Cagliostro's arrival ...
From the point of view of technology, with the exception of a slight increase in dimensions and clearance, everything remains the same. Subaru Impreza WRX is still equipped with a longitudinally located 218-horsepower opposite engine with a high (0.9-1.2 bar) pressure and all-wheel drive transmission with an intended differential of increased friction equipped with viscousyft. The rear inter -axial differential is also blocked with the help of viscousyft, the front is free, that is, deprived of locking. In standard modes, 292 NM torque are distributed between the axes in a ratio of 50/50. In this case, front -wheel drive skills are enough to control the machine. In the case of slipping the wheels of the front axle, the moment is smoothly redistributed through the central differential to the rear, changing the ratio in their favor and demanding from the driver the more classic driving techniques, the more Newtonons a meter went back.
Thanks to the traditionally selected layout of Fuji Heavy Industries, a very successful and bright car in terms of equipment with optimal weighting, a low center of gravity and a well -balanced transmission turned out again. In addition, the longitudinal use of a compact opponent allowed the use of long symmetrical half axles in the front drive, which in turn made it possible to increase the front suspension. Small dimensions of the engine determine a small front overhang, which positively affects geometric patency. The outstanding characteristics of the engine provide the machine with a high specific power (109 hp per liter of working volume) and enviable power supply (6.4 kg of machine weight per 1 hp).
Compared to the predecessor (and such a comparison will not be able to avoid anyone who will try to really evaluate the new Impreza), this car has become more comfortable, friendly and clearer than a simple driver without a special racing education. The suspension is perfectly practiced. Now, when driving along the city streets, you do not need to worry about the fact that you will have to restore the sealing on the washing board once a month or to leave the parking lot in the teeth to avoid a non -planned visit to the dentist, the comfort has become adequate into the car with considerable money. And this despite the fact that now the WRX is equipped with sports shoes of dimension 215/45 R17 against 205/50 R16 with the older sister! The salon has become much quieter (if the annoying noise does not stop, try to plant a passenger most likely, the source of the rumble lurked precisely in the passenger seat). The design of the interiors is made of materials that do not cause any other emotions except even positive ones. And the fact that the salon has lost fantastically convenient sporting benches of Recaro once again confirms the hunch that the Japanese tried to save the new consumer from any kind of provoking elements in design now, and the white dials of instruments, and even the primitive spirit of Impreza GT remained in the past millennia.
At the same time, having developed for the new machine a new injection software control and installing an intermediate chamber at the entrance, which allows you to change the geometry of the inlet tract, the Japanese still retained the outstanding dynamic characteristics of the machine. It feels like an acceleration of 0-100 km/h now occupies a little more than last year’s 6.4 seconds. But a frantic turbopter stopped nervous during a measured urban ride, which used to be in any gear after 2900 rpm instantly drove the tachometer shooter into the red zone, and the heart of the traffic police inspectors in the zone of the strongest tachycardia.
In general, apparently, now Impreza is designed for a completely different, new buyer. Interested in sports, but exclusively as a spectator, and not a potential participant in the process. At times looking for a thrill, but only as long as these sensations are in reasonable limits from the point of view of Homo sapiens. Ready to cross the swords at a traffic light with any foreign car inflated to disgrace, but realizing that there can always freeze in anticipation of a low start something no less aggressive, daring and competitive (prudent person in the new WRX in such a situation It will easily find a reason to abandon the duel, and the hopeless on the old GT will fight to death until the turbine burns in the dense layers of the atmosphere and this is the main difference between the new Subaru buyers and the aliens from the last millennium).
And for those who still want a new car, but with the capabilities and primitive energy of the old one, it makes sense to wait when the team of Sergei Uspensky begins the supply and installation on their facilities of sports components from Prodrive and Subaru Technika International. Of course, it will be a completely different car. By the way, already at the end of January, Monte-Carlo Richard Barnes, Marco Mityrtin, Peter Solberg and Yukh Kankunen will take the start of the Subaru Impreza championship in a new guise. You see, time will pass and the eyes and heart will get used to this car. Private versions imitating the combat will appear again. And the fourth generation of Impreza will become a legend during life. By the way, in the Japanese competition, a car of the year Subaru Impreza WRX confidently took a place in the top three of the best new sun of the rising sun. Probably, such a fate awaits all space shuttles brought to us from star accumulation of Subaru ...
Alexey Mochanov
Photo by Alexander Nozdrin
 

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