One thing Subaru does really well is the front wing mirrors, which are stuck on the doors, as opposed to in the triangle where the A-pillar meets the doors. So, like many of these systems, EyeSight does tend to intrude, over-enthusiastically, but when it’s playing its main game it just might save your life, so perhaps we should give it a pass on its minorly intrusive disposition. Certainly it’s the sweet spot for value and features. So, to me, Impreza 2.0i Premium - one grade down from the top - is the pick for most people.
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And you’ll also get a sunroof and Subaru’s Vision Assist, which is like EyeSight Plus.Īnd if you’ve got even more cash to splash, another two grand will get you into the 2.0i-S, which has 18-inch alloys (up from 17 in the lesser grades) on wider tyres, plus a bunch of dead cow on the seats. So this is the entry-level I’d consider for a personal car purchase.īut if you also want GPS, you’ll be looking at about another $2500 for the 2.5i Premium.
If you spend about $2300 more you get the 2.0i-L and you get EyeSight and a bigger infotainment touchscreen, basically. But if you’re after a car for yourself, as opposed to your 50 employees, you would want that EyeSight safety system. I understand why Subaru did this - it’s to target the base Impreza directly at fleet buyers, and that’s a segment where every cent counts. It requires actual effort, whereas it could be intuitive.Īnyway, with 2.0i poverty pack Impreza, you get a reversing camera and the small touchscreen infotainment system, plus an electronic park brake, but you don’t get GPS and you don’t get the EyeSight safety system.Īnd this last one is a deal-breaker for me.
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Effort is required to figure out how this Impreza hierarchy works.Ĭracking the code of Impreza model grade relativity is hard work for mainstream car buyers. This is what a committee in the former USSR would come up with. On the model grades, from poverty to plush it goes: 2.0i, 2.0i-L, 2.0i Premium and 2.0i-S.įour model grades is fine - makes complete sense - and yet this is not what I would call them. Tomato, tomato in the case of Impreza: the hatch is a really practical compact loadspace with more than one foot in the ‘wagon’ domain.ĭon’t worry, there are things I hate about Impreza: we’ll get to them. This also means the hatch is practically a wagon, because SUVs are wagons, notionally, whereas cars these days are hatches. So, all of the fundamental performance and refinement benchmarks XV needed to hit in R&D are reflected in Impreza, which makes it a pretty high-quality small car.
When you look at them side-by-side: the XV is an Impreza hatch with added ground clearance and wheel arch flares. It could save your life.Īdditionally, because Subaru plays the game of R&D efficiency like an extreme sport - the fundamental engineering of Impreza (especially the hatch) is also the fundamental engineering of the XV, Subaru’s small SUV. EyeSight safety tech is very well implemented generally. They should sell more of them because - symmetrical AWD (so useful in the wet, or on a gravel road).