Many fans consider the Subaru WRX has gone comfortable. The latest model feels much less like a efficiency automobile and extra like a traditional Impreza sedan with a turbo connected. The STI’s discontinuation solely exacerbates these emotions. However the WRX can nonetheless maintain its personal on a rally stage. This video is proof.
The Crew O’Neil Rally College in New Hampshire bought their palms on a brand new WRX to see if its heritage nonetheless holds true. Fortunately the automobile’s commonplace all-wheel drive system handles precisely in addition to anticipated, with teacher and host Wyatt Knox calling it “fairly darn excellent.”
Knox additionally says the 272-horsepower WRX is a bit sooner than he was anticipating, particularly having pushed extra highly effective STIs up to now. He credit the on-gravel dealing with to Subaru’s purely mechanical energy distribution, saying it is tuned effectively proper out of the field.
Whereas we do not suspect many WRX house owners will get their automobile airborne, Knox says the automobile jumps “rather well,” saying that it flies by way of the air degree, which means the nostril does not dip into the bottom first upon touchdown. Similar to any good rally automobile ought to.
Unsurprisingly, the WRX stomps each different competitor within the timed stage course summer time leaderboard at Crew O’Neil, placing up a time two seconds faster than the following quickest car, a CanAm Maverick side-by-side. Proof that even with the STI gone, the WRX remains to be king of street-legal rally vehicles … till Crew O’Neil exams the GR Corolla in related circumstances, anyway.