2009 Subaru Impreza GT (review)
CNET Car Tech reviews the 2009 Subaru Impreza GT.
Wayne Cunningham Managing Editor / Roadshow
Wayne Cunningham reviews cars and writes about automotive technology for CNET's Roadshow. Prior to the automotive beat, he covered spyware, Web building technologies, and computer hardware. He began covering technology and the Web in 1994 as an editor of The Net magazine.
Besides the handling, we found little impressive about the Impreza GT. And a look at Subaru's Impreza models made us wonder what the company was thinking. Here's a car that's supposed to sit between the base Impreza and the sportier WRX, offering more horsepower than the low-end models. But cabin tech is almost entirely unavailable in the Impreza GT and you get stuck with an automatic transmission. After going through the electronics and running the car around twisty mountain roads, we would rather have the comparably priced WRX.