Comments on: 2009 Subaru Impreza WRX First Steer

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:08:06 +0000

Well, maybe at 42 I am an old man then. I had the option of a 2004-05 M3 BMW or a WRX sedan. I test drove both and bought a MY09 WRX. Why, the price is hard to beat as well as good all round optioning without the cabin being filled with wasteful techno crap. I find it a true old style car you can “drive”, and does it go – oh yeah. I can also fit my teenage kids in the back comfortably when I have to allow them in it! I too thought the pictures avail on the net looked a bit “soft”, but when you see the 09 WRX in the showroom, they look much better and the finish is very good. I do agree some interior components could be made better made, but plastic is now what cars are made of. That is my biggest gripe. However, the leather seats are comfortable and I like the sunroof option. Priced well as new, they are hard to look past. I am now troubled by a wife that wants to drive it all the time. As for will they sell, I had to wait two months for delivery. Try finding one avail in Australia on a dealership floor – you wont. My insurance per annum is a sprinkle over $1000. The same as all my previous cars.

By: DesignEng©™

DesignEng©™ — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:58:50 +0000

“Subaru’s Impreza also posted an all-time sales record in June of 1568.”

Seems that there are plenty of cashed-up buyers who dissagree with the negative comments here.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:22:12 +0000

Insurance, Newcastle area, $42K value, 35 year old male, $846 GIO, $780 NRMA. Depends on where you live.

Just got rid of a SS after test driving one of these. The acceleration is blinding, it feels quicker being so much more responsive and lighter, and overall just loved it (why I spent so many years hating these things I don’t know). Never judge a book by its cover.

As to getting the power to the ground on the SS, you need to be skilled to get close to 6 seconds. Getting off the line without excessive wheel spin and smoke takes a lot of doing. Particularly in the wet.

As for the 09 rex sedan, don’t judge a book by its cover. Drive one and see what you think. My test drive was a wet day and was mind blowing. I have always owned Aussie cars, and hated Jap ones. One hour in one last week had me buying the WRX within 2 hours. How times change.

By: Silent456

Silent456 — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:16:26 +0000

WHy the hell would you want a ford XR6 turbo, when its RWD. RWD is shit compared to 4wd thers no arguement there.

And anyway if i was to get a ford it’l be a F6 typhoon

By: Boost-Juice

Boost-Juice — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:03:26 +0000

That and the interior of the golf is like that scottish kilt shit?
NICE!

By: Boost-Juice

Boost-Juice — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:01:34 +0000

Kruiser,

The only time the GOLF has been even mentioned in the same breath as the WRX is with the MY08.

94-2007 and 2009+ onwards, its in a different league.

Just got my MY09 with leather and sunroof, standard xenon lights etc.. Dont know what cheap plastics your talking about? Sams crap they have in much better cars. As for being sold on the GOLF’s interior and FWD… good luck with that. I DRIVE my cars. Some like to sip late coffee’s in them.

GTI is, especially the new one, a hair style.

WRX has always been about the drive. Theyve never been pretty.
You went the Golf. Do you go to Toni and Guy Hairdresser’s (i.e. pay $100 for a mans haircut)?

I actually went to VW up at chatswood, and the were acting like snobs…. someone needs toremind them they make cars less than 50k hahahaha…

The people who sold me my new 325ci coupe ($99300 on the road with all those options , were not half as misled!!
Sorry cant roll with you rex dissing adn VW praising. Different category of car.

Punce V Power.

Good Luck.

By: kruiser

kruiser — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:59:44 +0000

I tried the new Rex the other w/e and was somewhat very disappointed. It felt dull and boring, especially the finish with cheap plastics inside. However, great acceleration and engine braking. Seating position could be improved, ie. the pedals are way too far offset from the steering wheel. Not enough knee room from fully released clutch to steering wheel. I later drove the golf GTI. ….it won me over immediately, in both finish & drivability…But each to their own. both cars were driven on wet road surface, GTI some wheel spin but not overally worrying. WRX was great in the wet….

By: Boost-juice

Boost-juice — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:20:11 +0000

a) XR6′s make awsome power. and thats it. They look crap. They have that unfinished look like an 8 year old designed them. Too plain, too boring. Aussie build quality – pleease!! MY VU SS 2002 ute was the worst thing iever did if you know anything about all 5.7′s at the time. OH, and they look like cabs, and have about as good resale afterwards.

b) The rex sounds better, looks heaps better, handles better and now goes better.

c) I just traded my MY08 on an MY09… I considered a SS V8 till I realised it would cost me 10k more, but be worth 10k less just as quick.. Leaving me 20k worse off.

Please Im all up for supporting homegrown, but until its the king and is better, im sticking with what I know is better.

MY03, MY99, MY08, MY09 owner.

Also had a skyline with 450 (genuine horsepower@engine)
and a bimmer 325ci.

Rexies kick ass for the money, whack some nice 18′s on it with an exhaust and you have a beautiful car.

And no one will pull you over for a ride…

By: HjortDomino

HjortDomino — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:58:38 +0000

Folks,
I just traded in a BA MkII XR8 with 234 rear wheel kW’s for an MY09 sedan.

The Ford was OK over 3500RPM but took a month of Sundays to get there, but even with $5K of go faster stuff on it isn’t half the car the Subaru is (and worth sweet FA as a trade). I’ve owned 11 go-bloody-fast Fords which I made go even bloody faster by spending huge wads of cash on them, a couple of Clubsports (unrefined shit-boxes: never again) and some early 4 bangers I worked to the max. A standard MY09 is so much better up to 200km/h than anything I’ve piloted (and I drive BLOODY hard, but as safe as possible and/or points allow): which is considerably hard at times. I liked the Ralliart until I saw the service cost at 100,000km…..$3000!!!!!! Look it up yourself. That fancy box COSTS: as do all fancy boxes

Add the same $5K average I spend on my toys, with a cheque to MRT to bolt 35kW’s (at the hubs) on, and for my money I can’t see better. As far as looks go, the car has the arse end of a bear looking downstream waiting to catch a salmon. The front is ok. The leather seats are comfy, love the glass and sunroof/stereo. Seating position is better for going hard than a Ford XR8. Having experience with the build quality of the Fords, I’d say the Japs are still better than us at building cars, but the gap is getting less each year.

Insurance in WA (43 y/o), in a cyclonic affected zone, is $127 month with 65% no claim bonus through SGIO. If I lived south, where there was no cyclones it would drop a couple of hundred per year.

The new 09 XR6T was better than my 05 XR8, but handled like a fat opera singer in stilletto’s, which after throwing a heavy car around for a couple of years turned me off. The brakes were crap and the cabin noise was like sitting in an ultra-light plane. And as far as a plastic looking interior goes, both cars were equally crap. But at least the seats in the MY09 sedan actually felt like you were sitting in them, not on them.

Now, when is MRT’s second stage kit arriving? Bring it on.

By: Cameron

Cameron — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:18:15 +0000

I think this car is superb on paper. The problem is still the styling. It really doesn’t say anything!
The performance is fantastic and on this side of 40G it’s cheap. But that styling! It’s not something that one could easily be proud of. The interior needs a major work over too. Still cheap and nasty. Until they sort this, it will always be second to golf gti in my books.
As for XR6. Great car and I dig like the looks but running costs aren’t going to be cheaper. The WRX beat it in the handling department every day ending in y. That said the XR6 seems more practical with heaps of space. I guess what ever angle you take there will be compromises. As most people have said, I just can’t get past the finish of this car.