DRIVING IMPRESSION:
Gripping blast from Subaru station wagon past
The Subaru Impreza GT hit the market at a time when Subaru was a cult brand, dominating world rallying and making teenagers bow down as an STi went by
My name is Mark and I like station wagons. There, I said it. Not that I have needed any kind of intervention to admit that. Just think of the BMW M5 Touring, the Audi RS6 Avant and that icon, the Volvo 850R estate, in yellow of course. These are all full-size station wagons, but there is another genre — the semi-estate, or Sportback if you speak Audi. One of the best of these was the Subaru Impreza GT wagon that was so highly sought after at the turn of the century. It hit the market at a time when Subaru was a cult brand, dominating world rallying and making teenagers bow down as an STi went by. That was then though. Compared to those days, today Subaru is less of a brand and more of a "bland". It has left its cult status behind, abandoned the rally stages and instead decided it wants to be Toyota — reliable and slightly uninspiring. It has great models — the Forester and Legacy Outback — but while there are some performance models and it has its legendary all-wheel drive package, ...
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