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New WRX STI: Respect Your Elders
Blue Mica? Check. Unmistakable spoiler at the rear? Check. 4-cylinder boxer engine? Check.
The new WRX STI is no longer an Impreza, but still retains the salient features that have made the legendary Subaru an icon in the world of rallying and among car guys worldwide. We loved it and hated it, but always respected it. Personally it accompanied me for a good slice of my life, with the EJ20 at first and the EJ25 later, and on rare occasions it has made me want other cars under my bottom.
At the dawn of 2015, it has been time for a new model, a model that no longer knows the competition of the now extinct Lancer Evo, the historic rival settled after the Final Edition of the tenth series. That is why my test at the wheel of the WRX STI is delicate like a neurological surgery. There is no room for mistakes when you have the heavy burden of responding to the expectations of ancestors that wrote history, and the WRX STI can’t and should not go wrong. The test that I reserved to it has been very hard and leaves no room for doubts: Col de Turini Tour, Mont Cenis and some mountain roads I know better than my pockets, have been the perfect playground for the ultimate test of this new Subaru and there so much to say.
I do not want and I can’t reveal anything, I prefer to leave to my in-depth review you can read on September’s issue, the arduous task of determining whether the spirit of the Impreza has remained intact or not. Never before I felt so involved in a test, also having perfectly clear in mind the things I would have loved to find and the things I would have loved to welcome. So I spent a good twenty days driving it, trashing it heavy on every road possible, observing it, studying it and I have also spoken to it (and yelled at), that when I left it to the Company … – ahem! Wait ‘till September, it will be worth.
Words by Alex Marrone
Photo by Jay Tomei (The Looking Glass)
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