Pole Position: Subaru STI launch

This is the moment I’ve been waiting for all year. Sitting in the snug leather-driving seat, I’m about to cane Subaru’s brand new Impreza STI around the Zwartkops raceway. Compared to the big-winged brutality of the outgoing model, Japan’s latest asphalt samurai seems almost understated. Mine looks especially demure in its sober white livery minus the golden the rims. But any notions of this Scooby being less of a driver’s machine vanish as I nail it flat out through turn 4, my instructor squeezing the life out of his grab handle. Read More…