We witnessed 0.91 g of lateral grip on the skidpad and imperturbable body control everywhere we drove. The vague on-center slop of prior WRXs is gone, and a new brake-based torque-vectoring scheme keeps understeer in check. Despite the adoption of electric power steering, the feel has improved. Instead, you’re buying a permanent season pass to a rowdy, grin-inducing thrill ride. Our car notably lacked three-blink turn signals, automatic headlights, and a trunk release on the outside of the car. It’s important to understand that you aren’t buying luxury or even common modern conveniences with a WRX. Subaru has already addressed this for 2016 with a new head unit that brings normally sized buttons, a tuning knob, and graphics that are at least more 2008 than 1998.ĪNDREW TRAHAN, MICHAEL SIMARI, STEVE SILER, ZEB SADIQĬomfortable seats, an excellent driving position, and a sculpted steering wheel reveal Subaru’s priorities with this car. There’s also no evidence that anyone on our staff successfully used the navigation system to travel from point A to B. Its tiny touchscreen buttons, cryptic menu arrangements, and pixelated graphics antagonized every driver who took the wheel. That’s just a quibble compared with the useless infotainment system, though. Per Subaru tradition, the plastic industry’s hardest and glossiest stuff gets installed, building on a design theme that’s best described as generic. While the window sticker read $31,290, our WRX never felt that rich on the inside. Our only option was a $2000 navigation system paired with a nine-speaker Harman/Kardon audio system. The mid-level Premium trim added heated front seats and exterior mirrors, a sunroof, fog lights, and the subtlest rear spoiler ever to grace a WRX. We steered clear of the latter controversy by equipping our sedan with a traditional six-speed manual. Subaru had rattled the faithful by announcing that there wouldn’t be a hatchback body for the fourth-generation WRX and that a continuously variable automatic transmission would be offered. We began our WRX rendezvous in late July 2014 with a Premium model painted Lightning Red.
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