Subaru Impreza Subaru West Drive 2000 - 2003 sedan
Has the car off?
Just look! This station wagon imagined himself with a sports car: both a mannered turbine on the hood, and spoilers on the fifth door and the wheel! No, you must evaluate these wheels of 17 inches, supern Wealthy rubber. And also fashionable glasses, wise stroke like! Well, well, well. Raise the aluminum cap of the hood and is about! Having opened the mouth, we are amazed to observe a two-liter opposite engine with a turbocharger and intercooler, whipping with 218 horses according to the passport, but the mistake came out. We are dealing rather with a sports car that pretends to be Wagon. Rather, a trailer: a short rear overhang and heavily overwhelmed the glass of the luggage compartment allow only formally the Subaru Impreza Wrx Sports Wagon to the station wagons, because in capacity the car is a little superior to respectable family hatchbacks. So the spoilers and an incapable stucco noted is not a whim of a designer, but the necessary structural elements. Speed \u200b\u200babove all. And from exclusively designer stray, only non-standard headlights are paid attention to, which replaced their native surprised-rounded optics and made the appearance of the car significantly aggressively. And, you know, aggression is by no means groundless awareness of this appears simultaneously with the launch of the engine.
Even at idle speed, the boxer amushes the driver's ear with the right silk bass quite quiet, but very intelligible and promising. And even if you go, smoothly pedaling, then Impreza, except as an unambiguous scoring, will not give out its wolf essence. Moreover, up to 3000 rpm, the car seems frankly lethargic and even more so not two -liter. But it is worth pushing the gas pedal stronger than the bass is immediately replaced by a baritone, and this is a signal that you have moved to the era of turbine. This moment cannot be missed. The engine instantly spins to maximum revolutions, and the machine seems to be in another dimension, where time flows differently, and the speed is measured in unusual values \u200b\u200bin the programs. In the third area, you are catching up with the thoughts that remained somewhere behind. For the most part, they are simple, and they can easily be reproduced by interjections. They express an extreme degree of delight.
Having become the owner of the improvis, you will experience a strange feeling that, against the backdrop of the impressive capabilities of the car, your most daring desires suddenly turned out to be modest. And then the very time to think about the conformity of your capabilities to the potential of this car. The fight against turns is the improvisation environment! And in this environment it is incomparable. A constant all -wheel drive scheme with self -locking interase and rear inter -axial differentials on dry asphalt allows you to create unimaginable you have already crossed all the permissible thresholds of arrogance, and the machine continues to follow the given trajectory, without sliding and practically not rolling. And if you have safe driving skills in sportsmen, then the behavior of improvisation will give an incomparable pleasure in this sense the station wagon is no different from sedans. Rally hardening! We will not bore you with inappropriate occasions about the narratives of a good, surprisingly, smoothness, convenience of a little stunned inhabitants of the rear seat and cardboard capacity of the glove compartment. Machines like Impreza are bought for the sake of another. For the sake of instant acceleration, which you can always cause with an easy press on the accelerator pedal. For the sake of almost childish joy of superiority over the laws of physics, when in a protracted turn, the car once again turns out to be stronger than your vestibular apparatus. For the sake of the image, finally, since not everyone is ready to exchange the comfort and peace of humble existence for a constant state of adrenaline intoxication.
A carriage of the adrenaline binge continues! We take the surf, bike and other equipment for the season and forward, look for a deserted beach and the largest wave. And by the way, you will probably be the first there.
The car was provided by Subaru-Neva.
Thank you for the equipment provided by Tule-Auto-SPB CJSC.
Text: Kirill Brevdo
Photo: Roman Ostanin
A source: Wheel magazine [No. 60/2002]
