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Drive a Subaru WRX often enough, and it gets into your blood. From there, it's not a long trip to your driveway.
Car and Driver
|May - June 2025
SUBARUS AND I GO WAY BACK.
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I learned how to drive at age 11 on a GL wagon in the woods in Maine. Later, I built my own rally course out there and borrowed a cast-off Fast & Furious WRX STI to relive my childhood (but better). I've ridden with rally god Petter Solberg in Spain and driven the current WRX TR on the Targa Florio roads in Sicily. So, perhaps the 2024 WRX Premium that's now in my driveway was preordained. When I signed the papers at the dealership, I told my wife, “I guess this is my midlife-crisis car.” She replied, “Oh, I wouldn't say that. You're probably past midlife.” Honey, put down the actuarial tables and help me bolt on this cold-air intake.
This story is from the May - June 2025 edition of Car and Driver.
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