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First Drive: 2006 Subaru Impreza WRX/STI


Subaru Impreza WRX
The enthusiast public remains nutty for Impreza WRXs and Mitsubishi Evos. Internet blogs buzz for months with rumors of even the tiniest upgrades. So let this serve simply to confirm the scuttlebutt that, yep, the 2006 Impreza lineup gets a horsepower increase of--drumroll please--eleven! Sad to say, none of the newly foaled ponies will be pulling the top-shelf WRX STI model, and only three of them are teamed to the cooking WRX. The other eight go into the workaday 2.5i sedan and Outback Sport wagon models. Still, a horsepower is a horsepower, and we'd rather have more than less.

None of this qualifies as breaking news on the engineering front; these engines appeared first in the 2006 Forester. The base car gets an electronic throttle and a swirl-inducing variable-valve lift system that fattens the torque curve considerably (without changing peak torque of 166 pound-feet) and yields 173 horses. The WRX ditches its rally-champ homologation 2.0-liter turbo in favor of the Forester XT's 2.5-liter--certain to be the subject of much blogchat--bumping horsepower to 230 and torque to 235 pound-feet (up 18). Real-world fuel economy is also expected to rise just a smidgen.

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First Drive: 2006 Subaru Impreza WRX/STI
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