Subaru Impreza Subaru West
Rall lobby
Before the masses had time to subside of the debate about the round -eyed styling of the most eminent of Subar, as Fuji Heavy Industries was discouraged by the new Impreza. However, the new one is too loud, because we are talking about simple facies. So, we’ll get along that the car was just a little updated. But did they embellish? Here opinions diverge. Evil languages \u200b\u200bclaim that the new headlights make an impregnation similar to the goods produced in Korea, and the good are ready to fight about the lay, that the machine of the 2003 model year has become an order of magnitude more expressive. Well, we won’t argue about tastes, but it seemed to us that the car had become angrier and more aggressive.
Such fast birth were artificially stimulated by rally, who, unlike most normal people, do not agree with the statement that the best enemy is good. The best good friend, comrade and victory in the competition! And the modified nasal part can help in this. How?
Work on the design of the front of the car pursued not only an aesthetic goal, but also purely practical. So, for example, engineers managed to significantly improve the aerodynamics of the machine, as a result of which the maximum speed of sports modification of WRX STI (it was she became the hero of our test) increased by six kilometers per hour, and fuel consumption decreased on average by a liter. Aerodynamic elements appeared on the front bumper, optimizing the distribution of air flows on the sides of the car. A little abstracted and the feed of the improvisa, where new bumper and lanterns with round elements of the feet signals appeared.
The new head optics hides another advantage, which you do not immediately guess. The increased headlight area allows you to use more powerful spotlights compared to the headlights of the previous sample. The top of the industrial iceberg Subarru sports Impreza WRX STI received a new MOMO leather steering wheel corresponding to 375 mm in diameter. Devices, the main of which is assigned a tachometer, are ennobled by chrome edging. Modernization also affected the car suspension. In particular, the design of the upper rear suspension mounts was changed to increase stability and improve control over a change in geometry during sharp turns.
In all other things, Impreza WRX STI `2003 fully repeats last year's machine with its specific technical solutions that came directly from motorsport. The turbocharging is equipped with a cunning system: when pressing the button to the left of the steering wheel, an electric pump is turned on, which sprinkles water to the surface of the intercooler through the nozzles, forcibly cooling it due to this, a short -term power growth occurs.
Impreza is equipped with a sports ABS with a transverse acceleration sensor, which in a bend works later than when braking in a straight line, allowing an experienced driver at the right time to braking the car into a skid. The level of technologies used in WRX STI is amazing. Just think about it: the intake valves are made hollow apparently to reduce the moment of inertia, and sodium is also pumped into the exhaust. And this is on a serial car!
It may even be that in the arsenal of many large manufacturers there are similar cosmic solutions. But not everyone dares to expose in their show rooms such high-tech cars that are not only worthy of a long self-forgotten story, but on which you can also go to work every day.
As for the running characteristics of the word is powerless. We have already repeatedly rode on semi -rolled impecues, and each time these unique cars changed the world around us. You go out of the steering wheel, and all people and cars seem inhibited, as with slow shooting. The phenomenal vehicle, whose dynamic abilities do not depend on the coatings on which it moves.
The car was provided by Subaru-Neva.
Text: Kirill Brevdo
Photo: Roman Ostanin
Source: Wheel magazine [No. 67/2003]
