The Full Vermonty: 2015 Subaru WRX STI vs. 2004 Subaru Impreza WRX STi - Car and Driver (blog)
As the 1990s segued into the new millennium, the world was busy not ending and the world’s computers were busy not crashing—at least not more than usual. And California was getting blasted by the next big car-culture tsunami: import tuning. People with the money to tweak new cars were cranking up the boost on the factory-turbocharged engines in Mazda RX-7s and Toyota MR2s and Supras. In Southern California and a few other pockets throughout the U. S. , the trend was already peaking by 2001. But when the first installment of The Fast and the Furious flicks hit the big screen that year, the giant wave crested and flooded the... Even Car and Driver tried to cash in on the craze, introducing Boost magazine in 2004, our Spruce Goose for the tuner industry. After printing just one issue, we abandoned the category to established niche bibles such as Sport Compact Car and Import Tuner (the former is dead, the latter is online-only). To answer the call for Japanese performance cars, Subaru imported its World Rally Championship–derived WRX for 2002. But the fanboys wouldn’t be sated by anything less than the 300-hp STi, which Subaru brought to U. S. streets two years later to... Source: www.caranddriver.com
