Price: R859 000 0–100 km/h: 6,61 seconds Top speed: n/a Power: 202 kW Torque: 350 N.m CAR fuel index: 10,20 L/100 km CO2 : 192 g/km
More premium means less hardcore appeal, and it’s further diluted by the soulless CVT transmission
Braam Peens
Lacks the hands-on driver involvement of the manual version
Peter Palm
The WRX is more refined, practical and technologically advanced than ever; however, the CVT mars the engaging driving experience
Damian Adams
How cruel can evolution be to a car?
The Subaru WRX – once an icon that ceaselessly captured the imagination of the PlayStation generation (thanks in no small part to the league of extraordinary gentlemen in Messrs McRae, Burns and Solberg) – may be one such example.
Halcyon hazes of blue and gold to the soundtrack of a flat-four warble and flung fragments of earth, flashing through forests at impossible angles; remember those days?
If somehow the world had not yet been convinced by Audi that all-wheel drive deserves its place in the annals of automotive performance, the working-class hero Subaru Impreza
