By Ben Stewart
Few cars today can trace their lineage directly to a racing machine. But few cars are the Subaru Impreza WRX.
The original 1992 WRX was the road-going version of the Subaru Impreza WRC (World Rally Championship). In the mid-1990s, race fans in the U.S. could only dream of owning this turbocharged, rally-derived sport sedan. The U.S.-spec Impreza RS had the look, but not the performance.
Then, in 2002, we finally got our own WRX packing a 227-hp turbocharged flat-four-cylinder engine with brilliant all-wheel-drive traction and handing. It was the car Subaru (and rally) fans had been waiting for. Two years later, Subaru brought us the 300-hp WRX STi—the ultimate performance WRX. And the aftermarket for performance parts for these cars that had been developed around the world blew up in the U.S. WRXs with serious horsepower and a unique exhaust growl became one of the cornerstone car models of the sport compact world.
The original 1992 WRX was the road-going version of the Subaru Impreza WRC (World Rally Championship). In the mid-1990s, race fans in the U.S. could only dream of owning this turbocharged, rally-derived sport sedan. The U.S.-spec Impreza RS had the look, but not the performance.
Then, in 2002, we finally got our own WRX packing a 227-hp turbocharged flat-four-cylinder engine with brilliant all-wheel-drive traction and handing. It was the car Subaru (and rally) fans had been waiting for. Two years later, Subaru brought us the 300-hp WRX STi—the ultimate performance WRX. And the aftermarket for performance parts for these cars that had been developed around the world blew up in the U.S. WRXs with serious horsepower and a unique exhaust growl became one of the cornerstone car models of the sport compact world.
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