The car that totally changed Subaru's image forever
The standard Subaru Impreza, when it first arrived on way back in 1993, was quite dull if we’re being honest. Based on a chopped down version of the Legacy’s platform, the Japanese carmaker had rallying in mind when it was developing the car, though you wouldn’t have known it at first.
This was the car that rallying was supposed to sell. The boring version of the car even came in front-wheel-drive flavor, but that was swiftly dropped in favour of just selling the cooler AWD model.The new Nissan Qashqai is inspired by 'Japanese Armor'. Agree?The legend began in 1994 with the Impreza Turbo 2000 AWD. British outfit Prodrive had been enlisted by Subaru’s sporting division, STI, to help it crack the WRC, and that extended to a few choice improvements to the road car.
The 2.0-liter flat-four boxer engine produced 208hp, which was impressive back then. Almost as impressive as the sub 6-second 0 to 100kph time. This was a car that could carry the torch of some of the wackier hot hatches of the Eighties, which was an abrupt handbrake turn for a brand barely known in the UK for the Justy supermini and Legacy wagon.
Even better, STI had made its name in the late Eighties by breaking endurance records with the Legacy – fastest to 100,000km, that sort of thing, took a whole month to do – but that guaranteed the Impreza’s reputation for reliability. Where some of the more German performance cars were stuffed with bells and whistles, the Subaru’s hardwearing plastics and spartan feel made the cars seem as if they’d already been prepared for a motorsport entry.
The 40th anniversary 22B STI special edition is the one that goes for the most cash these days – numbers were strictly limited and it’d cost you over £100k today . Look at Subaru’s range now and you’d not even know the Impreza glory days had happened – the range of solid AWD wagons for well-heeled rural types has morphed into a range of solid AWD SUVs, though no one is sure who they’re for, especially Subaru.
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