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2012 SUBARU IMPREZA WRX & STI

Full-time Traction for Your Full-time Life

At Subaru, we believe in traction. Better traction expands a vehicle's versatility and capability. It creates better handling and control. It can be the difference between you avoiding a dangerous situation or you being caught in one. Keeping a sure grip of the road increases the confidence you feel behind the wheel.

We've spent nearly 40 years developing and perfecting our systems for traction and control. The result is Subaru Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive. Its unique design keeps more power routed to all four wheels and keeps the vehicle exceptionally balanced for poise and tight handling. Not every all-wheel drive system is the same, and none provide traction and control in quite the same way as Subaru AWD. It's why Subaru owners believe in their vehicles, and why they feel the freedom to live more of the life they love.
"We tested - and retested - it as barreling to 60 MPH in a blistering 4.7 seconds"
                - CarandDriver.com, March 2010


For years, the Subaru WRX has been one of the world's least pretentious performance buys. In either sedan or hatchback trim, the car has presented itself as a conservative economy car. Excepting a conspicuous hood scoop, there really was very little to hint to the fact that the Japanese creation packs a turbocharged flat-four cylinder with a serious punch as well as a world-class all-wheel drive system. Honed from years of experience in the World Rally Championship, the WRX was a prize fighter wrapped in a nun's habit. But you can forget all that. For 2011, the WRX has ditched the black robe for a string bikini, flaunting some serious haunches in the process. Meanwhile, the car's big brother ? the WRX STI ? has been fitted with a completely reworked suspension and an all-new four-door body style.
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