Test Drive Subaru Impreza WRX STI since 2008 Sedan
Subaru Impreza WRX: no recipe
Air, sun and water. These three natural substances, as medicine says, will provide us with life, full of joy and fun We brought another formula: World Rally Extension. And let the doctors do not worry the effect, believe me, comparable.
Let's!. I waved my hand and aimed into the camera lens. A red dot barely audibly roared the turbo engine and began to grow rapidly against the background of a blue horizon. Second, even now click the shutter. Frame!
A squat car flies past me, slows down and rolls on the left side. Another sunset turn, and everything is new. Well, you do not resend you to a colleague, who once again fell out of the frame. But how not to drive when, under you, almost even canvas of the Rzhev airfield, and under the hood 230 forces, burned to the will?
It is not easy to shoot Subaru Impreza WRX. The desire to tear out the hands of designers who made a home canary from a combat hawker, a dream
housewives and secretaries, stunned on that very day when we just got acquainted with the new machine in the minimum configuration and with a motor volume 1.5. Boring appearance, faceless interior, and what is the most hijacked doors that have been deprived of a branded frameless design. Even the photos turned out that day without a spark. Did not inspire, did not please us then impreza.
Today is a new attack. The engine warmed up and the turbine entered the combat mode, shifting the gears became even more clear than first, and the left foot was already tight with a tight clutch pedal. Subaru gives a celebration of communication with a perfectly tuned car, and here I do not drive with my own so with the World Rally Extension.
Attributes of sports in the cabin once or two and did it. The seats are excellent: they grab firmly behind the back and slightly weaker in the area of \u200b\u200bthe legs. The gearbox lever, located exactly at hand, the gripboard on the column adjustable in two positions is all on the spot, but still on the door handles glitters the ringing silver plastic (I, honestly, I saw the same in Lifan Breez), and the heavyweight front console It is soon enough to mini vein than hot hatchback.
But all these are trifles. It is worth turning the ignition key and chaotic scattered pictures of controversial design solutions will be gather in a puzzle of a harmonious drive. What previously seemed acceleration, now just a squeezing tomression. The Japanese oppositor simply does not take up to 3,000 revolutions. In this mode, the turbine rotates too slowly, without providing proper pressure, the typical feature of the motors, where it works not mechanical supervision, but the turbocharger. But it is worth pressing the accelerator is stronger and that's it! SUBARU engineers joyfully rubbing the palm: the case is done, the trap slammed. You are on the hook. On the hook of an excellent twist motor and classic subarovsky symmetric full drive.
Because of the Impreza of competitors, there would be a tangible routine with sharp rebuildings, and bodies in turns. Suspension with an impressive move (settings are rather for the village, not for asphalt), but the car is highly from the ground; From here and jumping the body on irregularities, forcing the steering wheel tightly.
But in the city so more comfortable only hard recalculation of chosable in the asphalt reminds of the rally roots of this subaru. Impreza.
the car is self-sufficient, and, happily, you begin to just enjoy the unity of the car and the driver. Passing a classic enemy test with a permutation, I at first did not disconnect the stabilization. It works harshly, not giving the rear axle to shift either on the yot from the course, and at the same time behaves very clearly and predictably. The rolls are noticeable.
With the disabled ESP, it would seem, it would be time to actively work the wheel to compete with a drift, but the great and mighty, symmetrical and permanent, drive cuts out this time, saving the life of a virtual elk.
Driver's correction is practically no need. The car is barely markedly put up sideways and lightning back to the trajectory. Bravo! Handling in modes approximated to combat, such that the purpose of the ESP system seems to be renewed towards established traditions. And without her nice!
Impreza WRX was and remains a sports car released without a recipe: it will fit both as a sports projectile, and as a car for every day. The four-wheel drive of Subaru is still the best in the class, and the possibilities of a well-balanced motor are always ready to challenge even the most prepared driver. Yes, the machine with the WRX nameplate began softer and more comfortable on the go, remained Spartan inside and lost the external aggression. But she will be forgiven. Already forgiven: the technical filling of the car dope of connoisseurs is stronger than wine, allowing new little joy in this life. After all, as sometimes it is great to force another poor felligue to try to catch a rapidly slipping car into the lens of your camera and spit on the door with the frames.
Text: Alexander Mikhailov
Photo: Alexander Korchenko Alexander Mikhailov
A source: Magazine "Wheels" [October 2008]
