Junkyard Gem: 2010 Subaru Impreza WRX Hatchback

I reside in Denver, Colorado, and that signifies that all of the native automotive graveyards are full of used-up Subarus. As of late, the easiest-to-find Pleiades-badged machines in Entrance Vary junkyards are usually members of the Legacy household from the early 2000s (which works out nicely for my private elements buying, since my on a regular basis beater today is a battered 2004 Legacy Outback wagon with a five-speed handbook and the not-very-sought-after Rocky Mountain Version choice bundle). That does not imply that different Subarus are robust to search out right here; historical Malaise Period Leones and Saabarus and Tribecas and all the remainder seem in massive numbers, and even the occasional member of the storied WRX household exhibits up among the many Loyales and Justys. Factor is, a gen-yoo-wine WRX is price sufficient in fix-uppable situation that I simply see wrecked ones, and practically all of these are unrecognizably wrecked examples. This is a 2010 Impreza WRX that may nonetheless be recognized as such, noticed in a yard simply south of Denver lately.

As you’d think about, the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution is much-prized in Colorado as nicely, and I additionally discover a couple of of these among the many Esteems and Jettas within the IMPORTS sections of the self-service yards alongside the I-25 hall. Not like many of the Evos and WRXs I see in locations like this, although, this is one which bought via the crash and rollover whereas nonetheless wanting one thing like its former self.

All of the glass bought damaged out and all of the airbags fired, after all, nevertheless it appears like a easy case of hitting a glancing blow to a guardrail after getting into an offramp at triple the really helpful pace, adopted by a skid into some landscaping and a rollover in tender dust. Most crashed WRXs I discover in Colorado junkyards bought there as a result of they crashed into one thing made from metal or concrete at a not-so-oblique angle, then bought crunched by a number of autos collected by the chaos of the preliminary wreck.

If the occupant or occupants of this automotive had been absolutely belted, they virtually definitely walked away from the crash with nothing worse than some minor bruises and possibly some abrasions from safety-glass cubes… plus a deep unhappiness about this destroyed Subaru.

The STI model of this automotive had a six-speed handbook transmission, however the common WRX bought a five-on-the-floor handbook. In the event you wished an computerized, too unhealthy!

That transmission, together with the engine and all associated {hardware}, bought grabbed way back. If the WRX powertrain even made it to this yard’s common stock, the very first buyer who acknowledged it scored an awesome deal on some useful parts (all engines with full equipment: $184.99, plus $89.99 for the transaxle).

With its 265-horsepower turbocharged boxer-four (the STI had 305 horses from a way more nervous model of that 2.5), the MSRP on this automotive was $25,495 (about $34,860 in 2022 {dollars}).

The WRX turned a definite mannequin for 2015, dropping the Impreza title whereas remaining on the Impreza chassis (which itself advanced from the unique late-Eighties Legacy design). As of late, the WRX and each different present US-market Subaru mannequin (except for the BRZ) reside on the modular Subaru International Platform. In Japan, automotive customers should buy a Daihatsu Thor aka Toyota Tank with Subaru Justy badges, nevertheless it appears unlikely that we’ll ever get that high quality machine on our shores.

The Japanese automotive the Germans want they’d made (so they may crank the music of an Austrian whereas driving it round a monitor, apparently).

This JDM advert is for the STI sedan, however nonetheless related right here.

The very first WRX bought Kyle McLachlan as its pitchman in Japan.