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Putting the 2024 Subaru WRX TR to the Test: Performance, Comparisons, and Unforgettable Moments · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:11
  Don Armstrong: time now for this hour's car review.
• 0:13
  Don Armstrong: I had a chance to drive the 2024 subaru wrx.
• 0:18
  Don Armstrong: It comes in base trim level, premium, limited, tr and GT.
• 0:25
  Don Armstrong: I have the TR-RUH.
• 0:29
  Don Armstrong: Okay, could you go through that one more time?
• 0:36
  Don Armstrong: I have the TR-RUH R-U-H, r-u-h.
• 0:41
  Don Armstrong: I have no clue what that means.
• 0:43
  Don Armstrong: Maybe you can decipher it.
• 0:46
  Don Armstrong: There it is the window sticker on it.
• 0:47
  Don Armstrong: You tell me what the R is.
• 0:50
  Don Armstrong: It's a midsize sedan, seats five, including the driver.
• 0:56
  Don Armstrong: This particular body style was all new in 2022.
• 0:59
  Don Armstrong: Exterior features bulging fenders on an Impreza sedan body.
• 1:04
  Don Armstrong: Sharp-looking front end with a great big hood scoop on it, quad pipes dual exhaust, but quad pipes with the racy lower valance in the back.
• 1:15
  Don Armstrong: Tr style wheels look great and exclusive to the trim level.
• 1:21
  Don Armstrong: I curb rashed one really bad and I called the lady that takes care of the car and she said oh, don't worry about it.
• 1:30
  Don Armstrong: I felt so bad.
• 1:32
  Don Armstrong: It was one of those wheels right there.
• 1:34
  Don Armstrong: I felt so bad that I told her I said I'll pay to get the wheel fixed.
• 1:39
  Don Armstrong: I never do that.
• 1:41
  Don Armstrong: Well, guess what I did do it, what I liked about it?
• 1:46
  Don Armstrong: The overall look and stance gets an A on my list.
• 1:49
  Don Armstrong: What could use improvement?
• 1:50
  Don Armstrong: Offer a hatchback version, because this one's got a trunk.
• 1:54
  Don Armstrong: Anyway, interior highlights Recaro seats, sports seats they're standard with this particular model High bolstered with the TR trim level.
• 2:11
  Don Armstrong: Huge infotainment screen that's easy to use.
• 2:12
  Don Armstrong: Black everything inside Could use some color accents, though I don't know.
• 2:16
  Don Armstrong: Red stitching just doesn't seem enough.
• 2:18
  Don Armstrong: Need some highlights in there, a little pop to it.
• 2:22
  Don Armstrong: Smooth shifter on this thing.
• 2:24
  Don Armstrong: Cargo trunk room well, it's small.
• 2:26
  Don Armstrong: What I liked about it?
• 2:27
  Don Armstrong: The dash layout in this thing is excellent.
• 2:29
  Don Armstrong: What could use improvement?
• 2:30
  Don Armstrong: Bigger differentiation from the premium trim to this hot rod trim.
• 2:37
  Don Armstrong: 2.4 liter boxer turbo motor, 271 horsepower, 258 pound-feet of torque, six-speed manual transmission.
• 2:48
  Don Armstrong: This is the smoothest shifting transmission I think I've ever had in my entire life.
• 2:51
  Don Armstrong: Did you find out what Roo?
• 2:54
  Don Armstrong: No, we're working on it, ours Roo.
• 2:57
  Don Armstrong: I got the TR, but Nobody seems to know what the Roo is.
• 3:01
  Don Armstrong: I think it's the sound you make when you scuff a wheel.
• 3:03
  Don Armstrong: Oh God no.
• 3:03
  Don Armstrong: But Nobody seems to know what the Rua is.
• 3:04
  Don Armstrong: I think it's the sound you make when you scuff a wheel.
• 3:05
  Don Armstrong: Oh God no.
• 3:05
  Don Armstrong: But I had a lot of things on my body that were puckering up, oh no.
• 3:09
  Don Armstrong: Well, stuff happens.
• 3:11
  Don Armstrong: 19 miles to Gallon City, 26 highway for a combined of 22 is what it's rated.
• 3:16
  Don Armstrong: I got 25.4 over 301.2 miles.
• 3:21
  Don Armstrong: What I liked about it the power is plenty adequate for this car.
• 3:25
  Don Armstrong: It's a fashionable car.
• 3:26
  Don Armstrong: What could use improvement is just throwing this out there at Subaru.
• 3:30
  Don Armstrong: How about putting another turbo on it, make it a twin turbo?
• 3:34
  Don Armstrong: Ooh, I don't know whether the four-banger would do it or not, whether it would hold up.
• 3:39
  Don Armstrong: It's screaming.
• 3:40
  Don Armstrong: The TR gets handling upgrades that include sticky tires and bigger brakes.
• 3:44
  Don Armstrong: What I liked about it the race car feel of this car, this thing.
• 3:49
  Don Armstrong: It feels like you could just throw it around in corners and clearly I did right to the curb, but I didn't do it intentionally and I wasn't racing it.
• 3:57
  Don Armstrong: Uh.
• 3:58
  Don Armstrong: Also, what could use improvement?
• 3:59
  Don Armstrong: I think adjustable dampers on it would be good.
• 4:03
  Don Armstrong: Base trim price $41,655.
• 4:06
  Don Armstrong: Price is tested $42,907.
• 4:09
  Don Armstrong: The base model price is $32,735.
• 4:12
  Don Armstrong: Competitors Toyota Gur Corolla $36,500.
• 4:18
  Don Armstrong: The Hyundai Elantra N $33,700.
• 4:22
  Don Armstrong: The Mazda 3 2.55 turbo 36, 635.
• 4:27
  Don Armstrong: And I had to throw the VW Golf GTI in there for 31, 965.
• 4:32
  Don Armstrong: Fun car, good looking.
• 4:34
  Don Armstrong: I think you should go for one.
• 4:36
  Don Armstrong: Go and drive one.
• 4:38
  Don Armstrong: You're going to go well.
• 4:39
  Don Armstrong: I think he was right.
• 4:40
  Don Armstrong: Martha, martha knows, martha knows All right.
• 4:45
  Don Armstrong: Martha, martha knows, martha knows All right.
• 5:04
  Don Armstrong: Thank you.