You have heard plenty over the years about Subaru’s rally-inspired WRX. And, owing to its longer life span, you have probably heard even more about Volkswagen’s genre-defining hot hatch, the GTI. It’s now in its seventh generation. Goodness knows, you’ve also heard plenty from us about the southern Ohio area of Hocking Hills around Cedar Falls. We’ve been such ardent and vocal fans of the area’s beautifully maintained and lightly traveled roads that even the Hocking Hills 2014 official visitors guide magazine devotes a story to what it describes as the “now-legendary” Car and Driver loop.
So it seemed only right that we should make another pilgrimage to our de facto southern base with the new iterations of these two storied performance cars. For 2015, Subaru completely reworked the WRX, basing it on the current Impreza sedan. While the hatchback version is no longer available, say “WRX” and the image that probably pops into mind is the notchback version anyway.
And of course that imaginary WRX wears some hue of the medium-blue paint that Subaru has used since the old Colin McRae 555 World Rally glory days of the mid-’90s. No surprise, then, that our test car wore WR Blue Pearl. Because it’s a WRX, it is—let’s just come out with it—aesthetically challenged. Subaru teased us with an extremely cool-looking WRX concept vehicle a couple of years ago but then came to its senses and produced a head-scratchingly awkward thing. All is right with the world.
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