Subaru Impreza

The Subaru Impreza is one of 108 Subaru models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 1992. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Subaru Impreza properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1990s were the decade of refinement — airbags and ABS became universal, Japanese build quality set the world standard, and the modern SUV segment was effectively invented. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Renault Renault Twingo, the GM (General Motors) Hummer H1, the Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz C-Class — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Subaru Impreza reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Gasoline: / 1.5 L Subaru EJ engine#EJ15 / EJ15 flat-four engine / H4 / 1.6 L Subaru EJ engine#EJ16 / EJ16 H4 / 1.8 L Subaru EJ engine#EJ18 / EJ18 H4 ; kerb weight is recorded at 1220 kg; drive goes through 5-speed Manual transmission / manual / 4-speed Automatic transmission / automatic; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel drive (1992–present, JDM) / Front-engine, all-wheel drive (1992–present). Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Subaru story

Within Subaru's own catalogue the Subaru Impreza sits alongside the Subaru Chiffon, the Subaru Lucra, the Subaru Pleo Plus, the 2000-2007 Subaru Impreza. The record names the Subaru Leone as its predecessor and 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) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Hidefumi Kato (1990). Assembly is recorded at predecessor = Subaru Leone.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

What this page cannot yet tell you is what the Subaru Impreza costs to live with — that is a different dataset. MotorJury's ownership verdicts are computed from federal complaint and recall records plus EPA economy data, published per model year as the nightly ingest reaches each car. If this model was sold in the United States, its years will surface in the ownership database; browse it live or price any car yourself with the true-cost calculator.