Subaru Impreza

The Subaru Impreza is a 2-door coupe (1992–2000) / 4-door sedan (1992–2023) / 5-door hatchback (2007–present) / 5-door station wagon (1992–2007) from Subaru, built from 1992, when airbags, anti-lock brakes and Japanese build quality became the world standard. Under the bonnet: Petrol engine. Hidefumi Kato (1990) drew it.

The story

The Subaru Impreza (Japanese: スバル・インプレッサ, Hepburn: Subaru Inpuressa) is a compact car that has been manufactured by the Japanese automaker Subaru since 1992. It was introduced as a replacement for the Leone, with the predecessor's EA series engines replaced by the new EJ series. It is now in its sixth generation. Subaru has offered a 5-door hatchback body variant since 2008. The firm also offered a coupe from 1995 until 2001, a 4-door sedan up to the fifth generation, and a 5-door wagon from the Impreza's introduction which was replaced by a hatchback with the third generation in 2008. Mainstream versions have received "boxer" flat-four engines ranging from 1.5- to 2.5-liters, with the performance-oriented Impreza WRX and WRX STI models upgraded with the addition of turbochargers.

Since the third-generation series, some markets have adopted the abbreviated Subaru WRX name for these high-performance variants. The first three generations of Impreza were also available with an off-road appearance non-SUV package called the Outback Sport, exclusive to the North American market. For the fourth generation, this appearance package was raised up to be subcompact crossover SUV and renamed the XV (Crosstrek in North America), and is sold internationally. Colloquially, the car is sometimes referred to as Scooby. Subaru has offered front- and all-wheel drive layouts for the Impreza. Since the late 1990s, some markets have restricted sales to the all-wheel drive model, putting the Impreza in a unique selling proposition in the global compact class, which is usually characterized by fron

What is underneath

Power comes from Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 1220 kg. It shifts through a 5-speed Manual transmission / manual / 4-speed Automatic transmission / automatic. The wheelbase is 2520 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.

Its place in the line

Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Subaru Leone; its successor was the Subaru WRX (for Impreza WRX and Impreza WRX STI models) / Subaru Crosstrek (for Impreza RV, XV and Outback Sport models) / Subaru Levorg (for Impreza station wagon models). Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Renault Twingo, the GM (General Motors) Hummer H1, the Mercedes-Benz C-Class — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the Subaru catalogue sit the Subaru Chiffon and the Subaru Lucra.

What it costs now

The money question first: $6,300–$30,700 is the typical asking range today, and running it — fuel and maintenance at its age — costs about $2,515–$6,193 a year. Insurance sits around $960–$2,150 a year. The figures are class-level estimates from the federal record, with the formula on the methodology page; the model-year pages carry complaints, recalls and repair costs year by year.