Whining 2011 WRX STI Review From Car and Driver
Recommended Reading: 2011 Subaru Impreza WRX STI Limited Sedan – Short Take Road Test
There aren’t too many things more finicky than a Car and Driver vehicle editor…except for maybe one of the women on those housewives shows. Maybe. It’s close.
I’m not a huge fan of test drive reviews from C&D because they’re not really based in reality. They take a car that any normal person would find little or no fault with (say a simple, run-of-the-mill Ford Focus), test it in a series of unrealistic scenarios, and then lambast the engineers/designers because the “rear end lifts a little when taking a hard right at 52 mph.” Silly.
Still, you have to acknowledge these people are paying attention to the details, and for that I suppose we should be grateful. In any case, the review linked to below is a fun little read for all you WRX enthusiasts. You can see C&D refer to this car as a “slug” and criticize the ginormous wing that comes standard on the sedan, as well as complaints about the steering feeling “too light.”
Too light compared to what, exactly? How about you go drive a Honda Accord or Chevy Malibu of Ford F150 like most of the people in the USA and then get back to me on your complaints, C&D reviewer…
From Car and Driver
A good car that would be great if the WRX didn’t exist.
The 2008–2010 Subaru WRX STI was something of an enigma, a bit like people who enjoy eating headcheese. Whereas that car’s predecessor offered buyers a rawer-edged, faster version of the WRX, with more extreme rally-car looks tossed in to boot, the follow-up was a real disappointment, suffering from vague steering and being slower off the line than the base WRX. It, unlike the first STI, was not worth any portion of its several-thousand-dollar price premium.
