If I were to admit to having strong ties to any one import manufacturer, I’d have to say I’d align myself with Subaru. Besides the fact that Mitsubishi turned to absolute crap over the last ten years, give or take, Subarus can offer up everything from solid, useable sedans to psychotic little rally rockets and even some of the funkiest coupes ever unleashed on a market. And since the early 1990s, they’ve all been underscored by one thing: all-wheel-drive. Subaru has been big on all four wheels driving since the 1970s and the tin-can Leone, but the advertising about the safety of AWD station wagons really hit a fever pitch when the Subaru Outback station wagons came to market in 1994. You couldn’t go anywhere in the Pacific Northwest without hearing someone extolling the benefits of Subaru’s all-wheel-drive.
It didn’t click that what Subaru was offering could actually be fun until I saw footage of the “555” Subaru rally cars and the high-flying antics of Colin McRae. Suddenly, I wanted a blue Subaru Impreza coupe with a highly strung, turbocharged flat-four that made farting, popping, and banging noises…but that wouldn’t show up on our shores until 2002, when the WRX finally crossed the pond. Since then, the WRX has been a fanboy favorite. In the right hands they can be weapons, but more often than not they are ragged to death and rebuilt to do it all over again. Luckily, some durability was engineered into the machines. This bugeye-era Rexy recently got thrown around a tough-truck course and from the footage, it looks perfectly serviceable afterwards. Now that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you should choose a family car: how well does it hold up to a severe beating!
BMT…That sucked! .Are you slowing down from old age? Not up to BMT standards. 🙂
that was a pretty slow and soft ride compared to others tough truck courses .
Tough Truck Course??????? My local streets are ‘tougher’ than that on my daily work commute and I’m in the city.