of a WRX into what's essentially a practical family wagon well we're about

to see if they did it or not we're up here on the beautiful central coast of

New South Wales to visit Central Coast Subaru today we're picking up the

2018 Subaru levorg STI two liter and we're going to take it

for a drive through the country so I didn't give you our review

entering into the cabin you can see that it's typical Subaru with all the added

comforts of the STI range the leather seats hug you frame nicely and

everything is positioned thoughtfully and ergonomically and there's plenty of

room in the backseat for friends family and kids

first thing I know as we take up up the hill it's quite steep and there is so

much power really gets up a boogies once that turbo spools up there is a

slight turbo lag and the only other thing that feels unusual is the CVT now

I'm not really accustomed to CVT's

but they feel a little bit like an elastic band winding up

before they're loose and they take off

from my understanding the Levorg that does not come in a manual gearbox it

only comes this CVT automatic gearbox which obviously makes life a lot easier

when you're driving around especially in urban areas and being targeted at these

family market it's probably just fine I'm a manual gear box lover and before I

could put a manual gearbox into this car I would love to have it sitting in my garage

with my other cars so let's talk about power we're in the

2-liter STI model so we've got a 197 kilowatts from memory

350 Nm of torque it's running through a symmetrical

all-wheel-drive system so probably one of the most intelligent all-wheel drive

systems of all the cars available these days and and particularly if you're

running it snow weather and icy weather this is the car that you need

well this is the style of car you need being a wagon there's so much space in the

back obviously you put a set of racks on here and a capsule and you can bring a

whole family and all this ski gear to the snow that's coming in a snow season

right now now being the 2 liter engine the Nm of torque the torque

comes on a little bit higher revs than the 1.6 liter it comes on at around

about two and a half thousand friends instead of 1800 revs just enough to be

noticeable but certainly the turbo lag is not something that you need to worry

about at all there's plenty of hope the moment they put your foot down

it's got a nice little turbo whistle and in fact let's switch out of well let's

switch the CVT into the automatic manual mode and now we can use the paddle

shifters to change gears all right now they're on let's see how responsive it

is using paddle shifters

much more responsive using the paddle shifters there's no doubt about it however you

can still feel that an elastic band slingshots style of gearbox the CVT is

yes the paddle shifters make it better no they don't make it like

this DSG or a manual gearbox but still a beautiful car nonetheless

one thing about the Levorg that I really love the amount of camera it's got every

Every car has reverse cameras these days well if they don't buy shoes but this car has

got the camera out of the passenger side mirror so when you're reversing into a parking

spot you can actually see where the gutter and where your wheels are so you dont

scratch your rims looking at the camera right now that's

coming out from an underneath the bonnet so you're looking at the road level from

underneath the bonnet looking ahead I don't know the exact reasoning for

that I can only assume that if you're parking forward towards a gutter then you can

actually see where to stop but it is or it can be activated while you're driving

as well and I can see that right now very cool

I think Subarus really nailed it with this car this is the latest and greatest

of course and and it is the top of the range for the WRX style model but

everything so comfortable you could sit in here for hours and days and it's

tour in it really comfortably you can take it to the track and have an

absolute rip-roaring time around the track and you can drive it every day

with these and comfort with it out without the stress I've had some

performance cars here so certainly this is the worst part of the day

I have to take this car back to Central Coast Subaru now I love this car and it gives

you literally gives you the best gives you space it gives you sexiness it gives

you performance and it's just a very very practical but fast car I'd like to

take the opportunity to thank Central Coast Subaru for looking after me today

even minutes the LevorgSTI and letting me take it for the day and give it a really

nice solid review I don't want to give it back

in fact Subaru if you don't see me in the next hour

so yep I can quite confidently say this is a WRX in a wagon if you're in the

market for a sports wagon so you can happily take on the tracks that you can

happily be a little bit of a hoon there reliving your childhood but you can

easily put the kids in the back and all of the shopping go to Subaru check this

out take a Levorg for a drive and in particular the STI two liter is what I

drove today so thanks again for watching throttle down under folks and I will see

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