Let's be brutally honest about the 2008 Subaru WRX — it was a major letdown. With its 224-horsepower engine a carryover from the old WRX, the once-dominant World Rally thoroughbred had become a prancing gelding. Our initial assessment of the car was that it hadn't quite earned its WRX badge, feeling instead more like an Impreza "GT" than a road-ready rally car. Apparently we weren't the only ones to express this sentiment, since Subaru divided last year's WRX into two different models for 2009: the Impreza 2.5 GT and a new, more powerful WRX.
Subaru finally does a tiny bit to close the gap created by the lancer's accelerating competence. WRX now kills the Rallyart in this price segment. Thanks Subaru.
Did they add a limited slip differential to the rear? This is my only gripe with my Impreza. If you are on a hill and accelerating in the snow you fish-tail like crazy. Still, this WRX does 0-100 in the low 5's, which is pretty impressive. The five-speed is not bad, but a six-speed would be nice of course. I might have went with the WRX over the Impreza if the old WRX had the same specs.
Well my understanding is more HP is a given, but I also think the fact that the subi is actually manually-shifted is a big plus for a road-bound rallycar. Plus subaru reliability is traditionally a step beyond mitusbishi. That's the trifecta.
The article lost me on the unnecessarily patronizing line about the 2.5 GT. I had to Google Petter Solberg's name to find out who he is, and then I thought "isn't he dead?" -- until I realized I was thinking of Colin McRae instead. And everyone knows the X Games are the Olympics of hetero porn!
The article lost me on the unnecessarily patronizing line about the 2.5 GT. I had to Google Petter Solberg's name to find out who he is, and then I thought "isn't he dead?" -- until I realized I was thinking of Colin McRae instead. And everyone knows the X Games are the Olympics of hetero porn!
For the most part. If memory serves, it's also the cucumber capital of Japan. Hence the home-market ads for the FT-86 featuring Takeichi-kun, the cartoon cucumber whose meteoric rise through the underground drift world has shamed him in the eyes of his school-master.
A dsg type gear box for the 09' wrx would have been the icing on the cake for me. So which do I pick? A manual wrx with a ton of power or, in my oppion, a much better dsg equipped ralliart with less power?
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And everyone knows the X Games are the Olympics of hetero porn! 
