Subaru has fabricated above improvements to the performance-oriented Impreza WRX -- an abnormal move, because that an all-new WRX was launched aloof aftermost year. Nevertheless, the Impreza WRX storms into 2009 with a added able engine, bigger administration and dynamics, and after an automated transmission, all for aloof $645 added than aftermost year's car. Frankly, I anticipation the 2008 WRX was appealing acceptable -- so accept the changes fabricated it any better? Read on. $25,660 base, $30,660 as tested, EPA ammunition abridgement estimates 18 MPG city, 25 MPG highway.
Among car fans, the appellation "dog" has a abrogating connotation. If addition says a car is a absolute dog, they usually beggarly that it's slow, sluggish, unresponsive, or contrarily afraid to do whatever it is that would amuse its animal masters.
How this use of the chat dog came about is above me. Best dogs are annihilation but slow, sluggish, above and unwilling. A well-trained, well-treated dog is a archetypal of happiness. They alike accept a allotment of the anatomy which serves no purpose added than to accurate satisfaction. Sure, all dogs accept some bad habits. Some dribble on the furniture. Others case at the neighbor's kids. My own dog will occasionally account on the active allowance attic to accurate her annoyance with my absence. But for the best part, dogs are fur-covered argosy of absolute energy. Their primary ambition in activity is to amuse their owners, and their accessory goals, if they accept any -- like barking back things assume alike hardly awry -- can be abundantly utilitarian.
And that's why I say the Subaru Impreza WRX is a dog: It's able-bodied behaved, able-bodied trained, and seems to accept been engineered for no added purpose than to amuse its owner. The WRX isn't the fastest car on the road. It isn't alike the fastest Impreza -- that would be the 305 application STI, an angry cat of a car if there anytime was one. But the WRX is the absolute dog of the calendar -- man's (and woman's) best friend, wrought in metal, artificial and glass.
