The Full Vermonty: 2015 Subaru WRX STI Launch Edition vs. 2004 Subaru Impreza WRX STi

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As the 1990s segued into the new millennium, the world was busy not ending and the world’s computers were busy not crashing—at least not more than usual. And California was getting blasted by the next big car-culture ­tsunami: import tuning. People with the money to tweak new cars were cranking up the boost on the factory-turbocharged engines in Mazda RX-7s and Toyota MR2s and Supras. Those without the money were hacking their Honda Civics and CR-Xs into respectable facsimiles of sports cars a couple hundred bucks at a time. Competition in L.A.’s burgeoning street-racing scene was fierce. In Southern California and a few other pockets throughout the U.S., the trend was already peaking by 2001. But when the first installment of The Fast and the Furious flicks hit the big screen that year, the giant wave crested and flooded the rest of the country with slammed, winged, and boosted Acuras, Hondas, and Mi­tsubishis. READ MORE ››

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