Key facts
- Manufacturer
- Subaru
- Production
- 1992–present
- Class
- Compact car
- Body style
- 2-door coupe (1992–2000), 4-door sedan (1992–2023), 5-door hatchback (2007–present), 5-door station wagon (1992–2007)
- Layout
- Front-engine, front-wheel drive (1992–present, JDM ), Front-engine, all-wheel drive (1992–present)
- Predecessor
- Subaru Leone
- Successor
- Subaru WRX (for Impreza WRX and Impreza WRX STI models), Subaru Crosstrek (for Impreza RV, XV and Outback Sport models), Subaru Levorg (for Impreza station wagon models)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Subaru Impreza (Japanese: スバル・インプレッサ, Hepburn: Subaru Inpuressa) is a compact car that has been manufactured by the Japanese automaker Subaru since 1992. It was introduced as a replacement for the Leone, with the predecessor's EA series engines replaced by the new EJ series. It is now in its sixth generation.
Subaru has offered a 5-door hatchback body variant since 2008. The firm also offered a coupe from 1995 until 2001, a 4-door sedan up to the fifth generation, and a 5-door wagon from the Impreza's introduction which was replaced by a hatchback with the third generation in 2008. Mainstream versions have received "boxer" flat-four engines ranging from 1.5- to 2.5-liters, with the performance-oriented Impreza WRX and WRX STI models upgraded with the addition of turbochargers. Since the third generation series, some markets have adopted the abbreviated Subaru WRX name for these high-performance variants. The first three generations of Impreza were also available with an off-road appearance non-SUV package called the Outback Sport, exclusive to the North American market. For the fourth generation, this appearance package was raised up to be subcompact crossover SUV and renamed the XV (Crosstrek in North America), and is sold internationally. Colloquially, the car is sometimes referred to as Scooby.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Subaru Impreza” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.