What is the Greatest Sleeper Automotive?

Who doesn’t love a sleeper? All the ability and efficiency of a high-tier sports activities automotive, with not one of the cop-magnet appears. Sleepers are the mature, grown-up selection for efficiency driving, when you’ve gotten bored with all of the gawkers and tickets. However, certainly, one sleeper should rise above all of them.

In the present day, we’re speaking delicate efficiency vehicles, and making an attempt to find out what makes an ideal sleeper. Can a coupe really be delicate? Can a crossover carry sufficient efficiency to earn the title? Ought to we now have handled the Chevy SS higher? The reply to all of those questions, and extra, is “sure.”

My choose for one of the best sleeper is straightforward: it’s the one I owned. The fourth-generation Subaru Legacy GT, with its WRX engine and transmission hidden beneath a staid wagon physique. To get extra particular, I’ll say the 2005 mannequin — the one time the lengthy roof was accessible within the U.S. with a guide transmission. The Legacy GT can borrow most of a WRX’s mod record, from turbos and intercoolers to engine and transmission mounts, however does so with a sure subtlety that the Rex all the time lacks.

I’m not the one one to like a quick Subaru wagon. The blokes over at Mighty Automotive Mods have now constructed two of them, one among which wears the identical outdated Legacy physique as my former day by day driver. Boxer rumble, turbo whoosh, and room for a full Costco run behind the rear seats — what’s higher than that?

The Legacy GT Wagon is my choose for one of the best sleeper, however what’s yours? Do you like the Chevy SS’s delicate, Malibu-esque appears, or are you huge on the Volkswagen Golf R’s plain hatchback physique? Give us your finest solutions beneath, and we’ll acquire our favorites tomorrow.