I thought the DSM Turbo was quite a bit heavier and about 10% less powerful.
The WRX will be tough to class. It's in that never-never land between GS
and AS. I can't see any way it will end up in the former, and I'll bet it
will be the latter.
US gets the WRX Wagon? Sub 6 second 0-60 plus room for 4 tires? Woo hoo!
Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Esra [mailto:philesra@hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 10:48 AM
To: ELBERT.CHIN@ROCHE.COM; ba-autox@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: WRX?
Interesting. Thanks for the link! For classing, how does it compare on paper
to the Talon/Eclipse? That might be the closest comparison, and that's in
GS... although I've lost track of the proposed class changes...
phil
>From: "Chin, Elbert {Chem~Palo Alto}" <ELBERT.CHIN@Roche.COM>
>To: "'Phil Esra'" <philesra@hotmail.com>, ba-autox@autox.team.net
>Subject: RE: WRX?
>Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 10:15:07 -0800
>
>http://www.new-impreza.com/index.htm
>
>From what I've heard, sometime in spring 2001. My guess is that it would be
>pretty similar to the UK version, maybe a little less because of our
>stricter emissions. The link above mentions something about 227hp and $25K
>for the US version. If that's true, then it really is a bargain indeed.
>
>I'm more curious what class this would go into. ~3000lbs, ~220 hp. AS?
>
>-Elbert
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Phil Esra [mailto:philesra@hotmail.com]
>Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 9:52 AM
>To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
>Subject: WRX?
>
>
>Just daydreaming--does anyone know anything about the Impreza WRX that's
>due
>
>in the US sometime soon? Will it be the same version England gets? Pricing?
>Time of arrival? Anything? I checked out subara.co.uk, and it looks like a
>budget screamer--about $25k and 5.9 sec 0-100k, if I remember right...
>
>phil
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