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"Impreza who? It&amp;#039;s more STI than WRX  The old WRX was a disappointment. There, we said it. It looked bland, and worse, it was much closer to a turbocharged Impreza than a hard-edged descendant of Subaru&amp;#039;s rally heritage. The STI was the one you almost had to get.  Well, that changes right now. The new WRX is one punky little badass. In fact, Subaru tweaked, modified, or just plain replaced so much of the Impreza to create the WRX that it&amp;#039;s nearly a different car\u2014a very serious performance one. In fact, it delivers an STI experience for the price of a WRX (under $30,000). Even the bolt pattern of the new WRX matches that of the old STI, not the Impreza. Yeah, Subaru is serious about this one.  On the outside, only the roof panel, the trunk lid, and the glass are retained from the Impreza. Underneath, the two cars are radically different. If you could flip the WRX greasy-side-up, you&amp;#039;d notice that stiffening structures have been added throughout the chassis. Struts with thicker outside tubes are designed to resist lateral loading and use firmer coils (by 39 percent) and dampers. They ride atop new aluminum lower control arms with race-derived pillow ball joint bushings. And speaking of bushings, just about all of them have been replaced with firmer ones to remove any sort of slack in the system. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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