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For those of you that are or were once close to the Subaru community or have been in the import world for awhile then you are probably pretty familiar with the Impreza 22b... Autoblog had a great article the other day...
It was 1998 when Subaru made some crucial changes to its World Rally Championship Impreza, such as increasing the displacement of the turbocharged flat-four-cylinder engine from 2.0 to 2.2 litres and fitting wide fender flares. Subaru won the WRC manufacturer championship with the car that year, and it also was the year of the automaker's 40th anniversary. To celebrate the milestone, the company came out with this limited-edition, road-going Impreza, the hallowed 22B STI, which looked nearly identical to the rally car.
Only 424 22Bs were built, and most of them stayed in Japan. But Dominick Infante, national manager of product communications at Subaru of America, was able to secure a drive in one of the only two 22Bs in North America. He details the car's history and some of the design and engineering cues that made the Impreza STI so popular both in motorsport and on the street, but we were caught up listening to the exhaust and admiring the timeless blue-and-gold paint. You should too, so head below to watch the video.
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Long Live the King : RIP John (Gwilo)
this was back when subarus still had soul... a rawness to them.... nowadays they're so tame-looking and mainstream, its like they're purposely killing everything good about the impreza
not sure if correct, but toyota bought a huge stake in subaru around 2007? about when things started turning into shit (somebody ought to do a google search and confirm)
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On October 5, 2005 Toyota Motor Corporation purchased 8.7% of FHI shares from General Motors who had owned 20.1% of FHI[9] since 1999. GM later divested its remaining 11.4% stake, selling its shares on the open market to sever all ties with FHI.
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