@@NerdTouchingGrass Well, different roads in different places. The Hellcat excels on wide American expressways, while the WRX will always conquer on twisty tight mountain roads. Ultimately it's like comparing a surgical scalpel to an axe, you wouldn't chop wood with a scalpel and you aren't going to do surgery with an axe. Personal preference from there, personally I've always preferred the WRX but they are different cars for different environments.
@@NerdTouchingGrassnope. Keiichi Tsuchiya took the hellcat on the gunsai touge and had no problems. They actually handle as well as an m5 or rs7. The only problem is that people still believe the eastern lie of american cars not being able to handle. The next time Daigo drifts a hellcat or camaro all the jdm dik riders will claim they "always liked american cars". Only the real car guys know the real ones from fake ones.
It's insane how people blame a CAR for people doing armed robbers and being reckless, its an inanimate object, its not the car's idea to go out and commit crimes, its the person behind the wheel. Governments think that by just banning everything they don't like it will solve the issues, it wont.
And after it's already been released, banning it only hurts the people who used it legally. The criminals would have just modified them to look like other cars...
The Australian police got 100 Subaru WRX police cars. 99 of them were destroyed in crashes, and the last 1 is in a museum. Australian police can't drive for sh!t. Lol
They can't shoot for shit either. I've been to a gun range at a police station for a visit and bullet holes and marks were everywhere. I know they do special drills but I wouldn't expect bullet marks 1 metre away from the start of the range
Whenever i see a Impreza WRX i always remember the rivalry between Colin McRae and Tommi Makinen. Those were legendary times. R.I.P to the legend Colin McRae and R.I.P to the legendary Mitsubishi Lancer Evo.
I wish they would have done that to the impala line up from chevorlet or the Malibu line up. Both had lots of potential to become street monsters. The engine bays could have up to an inline 6 sized engine or a v8 for the impalas. The exaust tunnel could have easily had a rwd system in the impala and the malibu could share a similar configuration to a wrx. and they look like normal cars. But I’ve seen some builds that look insane with them. Wasted potential from the early 2000s. For the 04 impala they could literally swap in a manual Camaro rear end and trans front my the 80s and still keep the 3.8l v6 if they wanted to. Chevy really didn’t like that kind of car
@@Freakashoni That would had been a good alternative. One of the few GM cars that has interested me has been the Pontiac G8/Chevy SS because I like the idea of a high performance family sedan with a manual transmission.
@@evoman44 I guess though it would have its draw backs lol. any sedan by Chevy isn’t going to be ss anymore because of reasons like they used to be lol. They were dirt cheap and had tons of power perfect get away vehicles. Oh and electric stuff. They literally evolved a muscle car beast from the 60s to a modern shit box. I mean even for modifications though they are dirt cheap. Mid 2000s impalas and Malibus had solid engine and when pared with transmissions from junk yards and a couple grand in parts they could be pushing past 300 hp more than most low end sports cars. Compared to modern cars lol. they could make about the same for less Chevy didn’t care that much he thought.
This and the cosworth Ford escorts/sierras were always in newspapers as a kid in the UK, being used for robberies as getaway vehicles because they were just obscenely fast. As a teen, it just made me want them even more. As an adult, I still want one but can't afford one!
@@baoquoc3710 the thing is there were not that many Carltons (i don't think long term you could survive with that thing doing criminal activities), the escort/sierra were more dangerous because they were not rare and can easily blend in traffic after police chase. Even today if you watch "traffic swimmers" on the internet they drive relatively common sport sedans (Q50/m2/m3/m4 or anything with the turbo b58).
Just bought a wrx, the lowest price I saw was £3700, and that was a cat S. Most were around £7000+ (this was for the Saloon - maybe the wagon is a bit cheaper). I think the days of "cheap" wrx's is over.
@@robi1483 (i was looking at a wrx for my son a few months ago but needed a lot of tlc £2500) ... i always wanted a subaru too but instead of the impreza i went for the forester, got a mk1 sturbo 2l, bought for £3k, spent easy £4k on mods and fixes, just spent another £4k on welding and restoration and nowhere near finished, so owning one is cheapish but keeping one on the road and modifying is where you can easily sink £25k ... that said though you could get a mk2 for £500-£1000 ... which will need a lot of work, good ones £6k-£10k, sti £10k+ depending on the model
me too, even the GF, I allegedly may or may not heard about someone with a car allegedly and apparently like mine, who allegedly evaded some guys in badges who were allegedly playing car tag with them, but only rumors obviously lol
This is the reason I love this channel. He does his research and digs deep. I verified one of his videos as I was involved at the time in history but was not mainstream so only few people knew.
being from australia, i never thought this would get covered on automotive youtube, so thank you! how cool did those police gc8's look! also.... still gotta cover the barra 😅
@@lional6291to bad those turboed xr6 weighed a ton and couldn’t keep up with a mad man foot flat around corners on the open highways they get the rexies all day .. but normally police back off chases they ain’t risking their lives aswell but you always got that one cop waiting their whole lives for the chance
@@OPEK. There isn't any other regrets surrounding cars I've owned, I think I sold them without any attachment. I love Subaru's though and I put alot of money into the bugeye I had, the guy who bought it from me got a fantastic car.
Telling the story of the Impreza's getaway by spending 3 minutes telling us all the specifics of the Evo's struggle before its inevitable downfall, just to then say "and the Impreza? Well, it was never caught," is probably one of my favourite bits of writing for something like this.
Prior to the Subie era, in the early to mid-80's in Sydney, there was a joyrider known as the "Porsche Kid". He only stole 911's and used them to bait cops into chases. I was passed by him one night driving near, I think, Five Dock. He went flying by. Twenty seconds later, a gazillion cop cars came past, tyres protesting, lights and sirens ablaze. Don't know if they ever caught him, but he was a thing for a short while back then.
there was more than one. Only real difference between a porsche 911 and a TX5 turbo was instead of a flat head screwdriver you used long nose pliers. and the porsche sounds better at 6500 RPM. good times.
God that Brandt keypad alarm was such a piece of crap. I had 2 WRXs with it, it would stop working every now and then for no reason, leaving you stranded. The best mod to do for any Subaru with it is to rip it out and install an aftermarket alarm/immobilizer system.
@@jackmiller7667 Oh it's very effective at stopping thieves, problem is it's also effective at stopping the owner driving it too. Got a mongoose m80 and never looked back.
This is cool and all but we can’t deny that Hector is going to be running 3 Honda Civics with spoon engines. And on top of that he just came into Harry's and he ordered 3 T66 turbos, with NOS, and a Motec system exhaust.
Real talk, my mate was one of the guys that were doing ATMs and Smash N Grabs with these WRXs here in the inner city of Sydney. He ended up being shot by the police in a stolen WRX after doing a Ram Raid. The officer was charged with 4 charges, but wasn't convicted, if I remember correctly. The entire reason why NSW police bought the WRX police car was because of his crew. It was a great time growing up in Sydney back then. There were hotties (stolen or "hot" cars) in the area all the time. WRXs, RS Turbos, GTRs, Porsches, you name it. What's left unsaid in this story, is that it was all because of how hard heroin Sydney. The Viet boys in Cabramatta were making millions, and every inner city crim was out there terrorising the city. It never stopped in the early GC8 Ram Raid days though. They ended up moving on to Armaguards. My cousin got arrested in a $6 million dollar armed robbery. Sydney was off tap back then.
@@endjfcar Honestly, most of them are doing long sentences in jail these days. Sydney had a massive crime wave back then. Some of them were “good kids” that got dragged into it by a worse group, but most were already petty criminals that got much worse once they were addicted. Google “Sydney Armaguard $6 million” and you’ll see what they ended up doing. My cousin was arrested in the sweep they did, but everyone beat the charges. The crew ended up getting arrested one by one for other charges. The cops weren’t going to let it slide.
I wasn’t expecting a story to be put upon the loved Impreza. However seeing the Lancer Evo there just bolsters how lethal these two cars are in all kinds of scenarios… love the content as always !
Parents are ex coppa's from NSW and they always used to say that they could never catch the WRX's. After seeing this I had to ask them more questions and tell them, "there's a documentary about who you couldn't catch 🤣".
AUSTRALIA - Eastlakes (my area) and most of the suburbs mentioned are sourouning suburbs. I remember as a kid watching WRX get chased through Maroubra Junction. I remember the ramraids on Oshkosh and atms... Man this brings back news report and paper clipping memories of this model WRX. Things tamed down by BugEye literally none were chased.. What a hectic video to bring up all these things. Over 20 years later I now own one of these GC8s... Crazy.... Great vid!
Knew I'd find a few Sydney boys in these comments lol. Grew up in the inner city, and Rexxies were *The Car* to steal. A lot of boys from Glebe, Redfern, etc were ripping ATMs, banks, ram raids, and doing smash n grabs with them. My mate got shot in one and almost died.
@@MarioGoatse Damn man thats heavy about your mate! Im guessing car jack or mistaken identity? And yep, most came from the inner city. It was the Wild West!
The cops here in Sydney hated them so bad. I remember back in 2000 in the peak of the ram raids my mate was driving home in his MY2000 and had blown pretty much the whole gearbox and only had 5th so was putting with hazards on got pulled over cops came out with guns drawn and pulled him out of the car. (Quite rare in Aust for cops to draw guns). After some questioning while cuffed and a few phone calls. They apologised. Their reason was theat they saw the car going so slow with hazards flashing and thought it was stolen and the shitty factory immobiliser was trying to do its thing.
This is hands down one of if not the BEST automotive channels on the Tube.. Your knowledge and research are beyond reproach. Couple that with your obvious passion for speed, the journalistic presentation, and we get automotive gold. 👌🏽 You should 100% have your own show on TV. I'm genuinely surprised you don't have a multi-million subscriber count! 🤔 Keep the quality content coming, sir. We will all be watching and supporting! 🐐🐐🫡
As someone who lives and breathes the GC/GM/GF Chassis. I can tell you they are amazing to drive and addictive, super easy to mod and if you are realistic with power goals they will treat you well. Thanks for this one.
It would be really cool if you could make a video about the frequent use of the Audi RS6 as a getaway car for blowing up ATMs in Germany and the Netherlands
I don't support criminal activity, but this and 40RA are LEGENDARY! Dudes took the cops on one of the longest chases in history, buddy gets caught and they ran it back THE NEXT NIGHT. The sudden urge to buy a tiny super sedan is palpable
I knew through boys that were using them here in Sydney. It started with RS Turbos, then when the WRX hit Australia it was massively popular to steal them. Any 4wd turbo was good, but they loved the WRX. A mate of mine got shot in a stolen WRX in Sydney. Survived, but still with a bullet in his chest
I'd say more more like 2 Fast 2 Furious vibes. Cause it actually had an Evo, used as a getaway car to transport drug money (and funnily enough the Eclipse had a WRX's engine sound dubbed over). The only difference being of course that Brian and Roman were ultimately in league with the police, not the criminals.
Aussie cops actually figured out that wrx front radiators were a ridiculously weak point after they field tested them to possibly use them as highway patrol chasers. Due to the big wide open front bumper grills for big airflow meant a little front end hit usually meant the radiator would crack, the engine would over heat within minutes and the chase was over.
The English cop car in the outro CG being a Rover SD1 deserves special praise. The subbie might have been faster but I'd take the style and sound of the SD1 any day.
I can only imagine being one of the officers trying to catch them and you just hear that car blast by at full speed. Probably getting shivers down your back just from the amazing sound. They are so damn goodsounding.
audi 2.2 and 2.3 5cylinder sound, and of course this impreza sound, these are in my opinion, 2 best engine sounds on the planet, and you will recognize them anywhere
For the first several years the WRX was available in the US (before the STi was brought over) it was insured as a little two liter four door commuter car. It took years for insurance companies in there US, and the public, to realize what these were capable of. The WRX wasn’t the first “rally car” to be sold. But, it did blow up in a way most others didn’t. There sure wasn’t a lot of fuss over the GT Four Celica from Toyota a few years earlier (an all wheel drive little monster).
When the bugeye was released in the states there was some motoring shown that commented how close it looked to the dodge neon. "But it's going to take the cops a little while to realize.....this.......is the fast one!"
I daily drive a 1997 Tommy kaira M20b wagon, TK0747, based on the Subaru WRX. One of only 105 made between 1993 and 2000: The rarest GF8 in the world. It leaves an STi in the dust. And it is one of the greatest cars ever made. Period.
I friggin love this channel not gonna lie please my friend keep making this content I know it’s a lot of work and I really appreciate it and you’re so knowledgeable and I’ve learned a lot from you I already watched about the coyote the Camaro the ford gt and the mustang I love how you give detailed information on the engines and it’s amazing the way you put these videos together idk why you don’t have millions of subscribers 🤷🏾♂️
Used to be the top most stolen car in New Zealand. Now it's the Toyota Aqua. No joke. The price to insure an Aqua over here is $3000NZD! I thought my turbo Aristo was bad at $1000NZD!
You are so damn entertaining to listen to. "It was forged in the crucible of world rally" you describe everything with such clarity and artistry. Keep up the great work🎉
Growing up in New Zealand in the early 2000s every time there was a police chase on the news its was either a turbo legacy or wrx and what's sad is they are still getting stolen after 30 years now that I'm older I have 2 wrx sti's and a twin turbo legacy I've done everything I can to prevent them being the next ram raid victim on tv
Absolutely 10/10 on the visuals and commentary…. Ford transit vans where use for get away vehicles aswell back in the day, you should do a video of that.
How long is a piece of string? Every ECU and car is different, though the basics are standardised. The ECU talks to the BCM and other modules across the car over the CAN network, it is the main computer that in simple terms coordinates what the other modules in the car are doing and when. If you print something on your computer, your computer sends a message saying 'print this data', just like your ECU sends a message saying 'pulse the injectors'
This just popped up on my feed. Subscribed! After almost three years of coveting a Rex. I got mine in December 1997. Shortly after was when all the ramraiding stuff was hitting the news in Perth. I didn't have a lock up garage, so there were a few stressful months. That car was my faithful daily for the next 24 years
@@Vincent_Cherron definitely not. Rally cross are multiple cars all at once on a small circle track that was purposely built. WRC is stage rally on public roads of different surfaces (asphalt, gravel, ...) and they are racing point to point. Also it's timed and not head to head racing
@@Vincent_Cherron Absolutely not. Rally Cross is a multi-lap circuit race on half tarmac/ half mixed-surface arenas, with all cars racing at the same time and the first one to cross the line is the winner. WRC events are held on point to point courses set on public roads, all cars do their runs separately and the car that finishes in the quickest time is the winner.
the Scooby Impreza did not “Forge it’s reputation in the field of World Rallycross” it was supreme in the Word Rally Championship. Big difference, Rallycross is not a point to point long distance multistage race on open roads, forest tracks with some closed off roads, it’s a circuit of mixed terrain in a sealed environment of short multiple laps.
@@337speed yeah the videos are like movies🙂for me who cutted a few clips of gaming content and i know much work even that was, your editing and content is mind blowing. Good work😊
@@337speed Lotus Carlton got some serious competition now. BTW, Can you do a video, where you tune your own car and rip it on the streets An LS build With something like a C5 Corvette. They are affordable(Cheap is a strong word tbh) nowadays.
My first car was a 93 1.8L wagon awd 5 speed. I didn't realize the potential they had until finding the rs25 forums while doing research about what car to buy. I read through a lot of the build threads there where people were building the normal impreza into what they call an RSTI. I slowly built mine to look like a version 1 STI clone but never had the money to actually swap it. Set it up for autocross and it did that surprisingly good. Got it with 93k miles and sold it due to it rusting out floorboards at 290k. I figured it would be used for parts but i just saw it driving through town yesterday.
How long ago did you sell it? If it's been awhile that's cool that you got to see it again still running. I'm currently preparing for one of those swaps myself. I bought a 95 1.8 coupe specifically to do the swap. I have a V8 EJ207 with the 6 speed DCCD to put into it. The plan is to participate in my local rallycross and eventually be able to do at least one ARA rally each year.
Just about any of those older Imprezas have become a sought after car by Subaru car enthusiast. Even the rusty ones are being fix and restored with welding skills because they are becoming rare.
There was no 3500cc class in Group A for the World Rally Championship. That class was only available for the Group A Touring cars. Wrold rally cars were all less than or equal to 1999cc with turbos plus restrictors. Furthermore, the car was not 30kg overweight, that was the safari spec with the heavier bashguards and spare wheels. FIA isn't allowed to disclose the weightbridge weights at any rally unless there is an underweight rule breached (to prevent teams or the public from calculating how heavy the driver and navigator are).
Nakajima Aircraft Co. made some of the greatest aircraft of ww2, like the Ki-84. Nakajima became Subaru after the war and this car is a spiritual descendant of those state of the art fighter planes.
Mate, we had V8 commodores that destroyed this car in speed and acceleration. Unfortunately, our coppers weren't capable of driving such weapons, unlike these fellas.
Loved my 2002 Bug Eye. STI was not yet available in Canada so I "settled" for the less powerful base WRX. Choice of 2 colors - Silver or World Rally Blue. 227 HP on the base WRX mated to a 5 speed manual and hydraulic clutch. While the 5-box made it quick to 60mph (5.1 seconds if I remember) it did make it a pig on gas on the highway since at about 70 mph the motor would be turning about 3,000 RPM. It did allow you to often pass other vehicles without shifting down, I always thought it would have been nice to have a 6th gear for highway speed. There was also tons of parts for after-market tuning, handling, and cosmetic changes.
I bought a WRX in 2017 to see if Subarus were even worth a shit. It was a $27,000 base model. I bought this because I wasn't even sure if the STI was worth the money. At the time I believe they were around $40,000. One of my regrets in life is that I didn't just buy the STI. I live where it snows heavy occasionally. One day, just to see if the WRX was actually a rally car, I drove the car down a dirt road that runs parallel with the freeway. I had ws80 blizzaks on the car at the time, and it had recently snowed- so there was snow covering mud. This was a graded and Flat Road, but the traction was awful for any car. I sat in the dirt and waited for a car to pass me that was on the freeway. I dumped the clutch and let her rip, and I was seriously going 60 to 70 in mud and snow and passing cars on the freeway like they were standing still. It blew my mind.
Almost same here, I bought a brand new 2016 wrx base with the factory short throw shifter. After about $7k in performance mods, it was a beast! The FA20DIT is a much more reliable engine than the EJ, that’s why I chose a regular WRX instead of the STI. I had around 330 WHP.
Living in New England with a Subaru, I don’t have an excuse not to show up to to work when it snows. I love giving a little bit of BOV to trucks and jeeps fishtailing all over the place when I fly past them
@enemyspotted2467 I think that's my favorite part about owning one. They are stupid fast in snow and ice with snow tires on. It's my first all wheel drive car and I'm not sure if I want to go back.
@@enemyspotted2467 I coped by deleting my original comment because I am not interested in dealing with rude people like you. I need to stay off of youtube. Too many common folk on here.
4:59 That’s sonic blue mica, my friend! My bro had a ‘97 WRX STi Type R in sonic blue. It was VERY fast between 100 and 160 kph, where you’d do most of your passing. We once followed the world rally guys around between stages, it was a blast. We got up to the end of the dial at 180 but I don’t know how fast we actually got to- the revs weren’t bouncing before the next bend. The Type R had closer to 300 Hp, and stuff like adjustable F/R torque, engine bay strut, intercooler, lighter weight and 2 doors. I particularly liked the bucket seats and the car felt super safe (in spite of the doors being very thin compared to modern cars) because of how stable and firm it was. To me, hard suspension is safe suspension. An amazing car. Also, the ram raiders loved WRXs because you could smash through the front of a shop and the car could take it and kept driving… like a proper rally car. It also was more than a match for the police Holdens or Fords if you were a decent driver.
Im Canadian where everything we hear about is American, but I always stood out as the black sheep in the room when I would say as a kid, my favorite car chase ever, was "Getaway in Stockholm" with the Supra and Cosworth! 🤘
I live in Sydney, Australia. I know someone who owned a WRX, this was about ten or so years ago now. He woke up to it being stolen one day, and shortly after, it was seen on the news being used as the getaway in a bank robbery. About a week or so later he found the car parked on a street near where he lived. He had to report it to the police and unfortunately didn't get it back, but it was an awesome car I still remember sitting in as a kid.
He actually never said it was. I believe he said before the movie ever came out. He might have reference the movie because of some of the similarities.
@@WigneyR He said BEFORE Baby Driver. "Before the Baby Driver movie would put the WRX in the spotlight amongst popular culture, [...] the WRX was more sinister and played a major role in the underground workings of the black market."
Smugglers and pirates prefer the Corellian built light freighters for the same reasons the the public prefer them. They are functional, reliable, easy to modify, fast, and have quality armaments and defenses. For this reason the Empire will be placing limits on certain models and restricting the sale of others. Long live the Empire!⚙
We had a crew of young black fellas in Sydney called the WRX boys theys honk the horn out front of police stations to get chasers. The police ended up shooting some of the boys.
@naija395 for running its never a good idea to run from police. To many times guys have gotten themselves shot in back thinking nah they won't dump on me.
Have a good run by my 2003 blob that I put together and tuned myself with true flex fuel. Well it would if you were in qld. :D My satisfaction win or loose is I did it all by myself. They can be both fun and a pain in the butt being daily drivers.
I had one of these try me in my Genesis 5.0 Rspec, he didn't like the result. In all honesty, it is never the car, but the driver that wins in evasion.
9:50 The solution to this problem is head to your nearest international airport. The biggest one, the chopper cant penetrate airspace giving you a chance to vanish in the parking garage. Plan a recovery vehicle there on the outside of the garage to bounce and... la la.
Love your channel, followed for a couple of years because it's always a slick video with great technical descriptions, keep up the good work. The late 90s in the UK there were loads of shagged out wrx's under tarps laid up, they had such a rep,, another lost hero from a few years from a bit earlier was the VW Corrado G60, high performance bad ass hatch that was almost an exclusive d£££ dealer car. Good work
One thing that stood out to me was the comment regarding how Subaru didn’t have an immobilized; thereby, making them easy to steel. I thought Hyundai and Kia were the only company that failed to address this.
This channel just keeps getting better and better! I look forward to each new video dropping. You do excellent research, your editing is on point, and your narration adds the finishing touch! 💪🏻😎
I used to have a 1995 Legacy sedan. Not as fast or as nimble as the higher end Impreza, but if you knew how to flick it through some corners you could still make a clean getaway. (Only avoiding tickets, nothing sinister) I'm not endorsing my past behavior, I'm only endorsing Subaru... I miss that car.
I know what you mean. One of the first Subarus that I drove that impressed me was a 97 Legacy sedan with a manual transmission when I worked at a dealership. I could always feel the AWD grip more in the manual models. My current 05 WRX manual grips like a beast.
@@evoman44 I absolutely love how their older cars look and feel, pre-2009 for the Impreza and pre-2005 for the Legacy. What I really miss about my '95 was the ability to brake hard, downshift, flick it into a corner sideways with weight transfer and pin the gas. Not much power with the ej22, but still fun and fairly controllable with the slightly longer wheelbase compared to the Impreza. I want to either get another one, or find a good 2005 Saabaru/WRX wagon in Saab skin.
I just came across this channel few moments ago. I watched this video and than the "ZL1" story, after which I came back here. I live in UK and ye, kids are buying German cars, but boys with balls are getting Japanese cars still. There is literally nothing left out of British manufacturers and American cars are u reliable, not as confortabile as germans, not as tunable as Japanese ones, and they lack character. There are few American, some more Asian, but still. I can definitely say this culture of Japanese cars aka JDMs still exists here in UK and it's cool. I suggest you to make more stories like this one, doesn't matter which car you choose, just make more because in my humble opinion, you rock on them. Good luck with the channel and subscribed. :)
The eastern hemispheres 90s version of the hellcat 😂😂
poor eastern hemisphere
@@retrocompaq5212 Mann shut up
but these actually got away Hellcats weight 5000lbs and get caught as soon as it has to turn even slightly
@@NerdTouchingGrass Well, different roads in different places. The Hellcat excels on wide American expressways, while the WRX will always conquer on twisty tight mountain roads. Ultimately it's like comparing a surgical scalpel to an axe, you wouldn't chop wood with a scalpel and you aren't going to do surgery with an axe. Personal preference from there, personally I've always preferred the WRX but they are different cars for different environments.
@@NerdTouchingGrassnope. Keiichi Tsuchiya took the hellcat on the gunsai touge and had no problems. They actually handle as well as an m5 or rs7. The only problem is that people still believe the eastern lie of american cars not being able to handle. The next time Daigo drifts a hellcat or camaro all the jdm dik riders will claim they "always liked american cars". Only the real car guys know the real ones from fake ones.
It's insane how people blame a CAR for people doing armed robbers and being reckless, its an inanimate object, its not the car's idea to go out and commit crimes, its the person behind the wheel. Governments think that by just banning everything they don't like it will solve the issues, it wont.
Yep people just find another way to do it😅
"Haha, boxer go brrr."
-the WRX moments after getting snatched
Fr, same with guns too
And after it's already been released, banning it only hurts the people who used it legally. The criminals would have just modified them to look like other cars...
It's not *blaming* the car, they're just trying to remove the tools used for crime.
“Narrow city streets” proceeds to drive through the mall😭
Also the mention of "souped up imprezas" when that's clearly an NA (prob 1.6 or 1.8) wagon
Well it was definitely narrow lmao
Twisted metal tv show says high
Blues Brother's set a standard :)
That's not even the first floor
The Australian police got 100 Subaru WRX police cars. 99 of them were destroyed in crashes, and the last 1 is in a museum. Australian police can't drive for sh!t. Lol
They can't shoot for shit either. I've been to a gun range at a police station for a visit and bullet holes and marks were everywhere. I know they do special drills but I wouldn't expect bullet marks 1 metre away from the start of the range
@@sop1311 The Emu war speaks volumes of the capability of the Aussies with a gun.
bit hard to drive when youre upside down eh?
They also destroyed them by not filling the correct fuel, blowing the engines
@@tinyrodent2821 No, it speaks volumes for how hard it is to deal with Emus.
Whenever i see a Impreza WRX i always remember the rivalry between Colin McRae and Tommi Makinen. Those were legendary times. R.I.P to the legend Colin McRae and R.I.P to the legendary Mitsubishi Lancer Evo.
not just them two, carlos sainz as well
What made Colin McRae one of the best rally drivers was also his Achilles heel. He could only drive at 120% all the time.
I wish they would have done that to the impala line up from chevorlet or the Malibu line up. Both had lots of potential to become street monsters. The engine bays could have up to an inline 6 sized engine or a v8 for the impalas. The exaust tunnel could have easily had a rwd system in the impala and the malibu could share a similar configuration to a wrx. and they look like normal cars. But I’ve seen some builds that look insane with them. Wasted potential from the early 2000s. For the 04 impala they could literally swap in a manual Camaro rear end and trans front my the 80s and still keep the 3.8l v6 if they wanted to. Chevy really didn’t like that kind of car
@@Freakashoni That would had been a good alternative. One of the few GM cars that has interested me has been the Pontiac G8/Chevy SS because I like the idea of a high performance family sedan with a manual transmission.
@@evoman44 I guess though it would have its draw backs lol. any sedan by Chevy isn’t going to be ss anymore because of reasons like they used to be lol. They were dirt cheap and had tons of power perfect get away vehicles. Oh and electric stuff. They literally evolved a muscle car beast from the 60s to a modern shit box. I mean even for modifications though they are dirt cheap. Mid 2000s impalas and Malibus had solid engine and when pared with transmissions from junk yards and a couple grand in parts they could be pushing past 300 hp more than most low end sports cars. Compared to modern cars lol. they could make about the same for less Chevy didn’t care that much he thought.
Now you gotta complete the Holy Trinity of cop terrorizers by doing videos on the Vauxhall Lotus Carlton and the Sierra Cosworth RS500
The Carlton video exists already
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He has done one on the Carlton:
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He already did one on the Lotus Carlton
Ford: "hey, we've got the ultimate hot hatch rally car, people are gonna want to steal it. What locks should we give it?" "Shed locks"
And the undefeated Charger
This and the cosworth Ford escorts/sierras were always in newspapers as a kid in the UK, being used for robberies as getaway vehicles because they were just obscenely fast. As a teen, it just made me want them even more. As an adult, I still want one but can't afford one!
Don't forget Lotus Carlton, the 90s BMW M3 CS as well
@@baoquoc3710 the thing is there were not that many Carltons (i don't think long term you could survive with that thing doing criminal activities), the escort/sierra were more dangerous because they were not rare and can easily blend in traffic after police chase. Even today if you watch "traffic swimmers" on the internet they drive relatively common sport sedans (Q50/m2/m3/m4 or anything with the turbo b58).
you can buy a subaru for about £1000 (a wrx for £2500+) ... but its the modifications / restoration you need deep pockets for
Just bought a wrx, the lowest price I saw was £3700, and that was a cat S. Most were around £7000+ (this was for the Saloon - maybe the wagon is a bit cheaper).
I think the days of "cheap" wrx's is over.
@@robi1483 (i was looking at a wrx for my son a few months ago but needed a lot of tlc £2500) ... i always wanted a subaru too but instead of the impreza i went for the forester, got a mk1 sturbo 2l, bought for £3k, spent easy £4k on mods and fixes, just spent another £4k on welding and restoration and nowhere near finished, so owning one is cheapish but keeping one on the road and modifying is where you can easily sink £25k ... that said though you could get a mk2 for £500-£1000 ... which will need a lot of work, good ones £6k-£10k, sti £10k+ depending on the model
as a WRX owner i can confirm this is very accurate
i can also confirm this to
me too, even the GF, I allegedly may or may not heard about someone with a car allegedly and apparently like mine, who allegedly evaded some guys in badges who were allegedly playing car tag with them, but only rumors obviously lol
yes
This is the reason I love this channel. He does his research and digs deep. I verified one of his videos as I was involved at the time in history but was not mainstream so only few people knew.
Can also confirm
being from australia, i never thought this would get covered on automotive youtube, so thank you! how cool did those police gc8's look! also.... still gotta cover the barra 😅
the all mighty F6 ford police special wrx killer
@@lional6291Only on highways. The WRX was the king on Sydney streets
Only crimes the barra is present for is power pole damage and domestic abuse charges 😂
@@gamingsuperun 😂 classy fg turbo enjoyer vs bogan na ba wife beater
@@lional6291to bad those turboed xr6 weighed a ton and couldn’t keep up with a mad man foot flat around corners on the open highways they get the rexies all day .. but normally police back off chases they ain’t risking their lives aswell but you always got that one cop waiting their whole lives for the chance
I sold my 2001 Impreza WRX last month and ive never regretted anything so much in my life. What a car.
Just curious. How many other cars have you owned and sold that you regret?
@@OPEK. There isn't any other regrets surrounding cars I've owned, I think I sold them without any attachment. I love Subaru's though and I put alot of money into the bugeye I had, the guy who bought it from me got a fantastic car.
Same here, selling my Black Beauty STi is the biggest mistake of my life.
@@gazk9424 I've just got back from scoobfest on the Isle of wight and instantly felt like I wanted to own another!
I still have a 2005 WRX. Once in awhile I get former WRX owners tell me they regret selling theirs.
Telling the story of the Impreza's getaway by spending 3 minutes telling us all the specifics of the Evo's struggle before its inevitable downfall, just to then say "and the Impreza? Well, it was never caught," is probably one of my favourite bits of writing for something like this.
This must have been the hook in writing my english teacher told me about 😂
@@tim9680 REAL
Pretty funny also when you consider the EVO had to stop for gas and still got away before the spike strips 😂
U can't beat the sound of the gc8 wrx sti . I own and have driven many . It's like being in charge of a thunder cloud 🌩. Truly awesome
It’s hilarious that the evo has to stop for gas. My evo X has such a small tank and I have to refill it every 3 days
Prior to the Subie era, in the early to mid-80's in Sydney, there was a joyrider known as the "Porsche Kid". He only stole 911's and used them to bait cops into chases. I was passed by him one night driving near, I think, Five Dock. He went flying by. Twenty seconds later, a gazillion cop cars came past, tyres protesting, lights and sirens ablaze. Don't know if they ever caught him, but he was a thing for a short while back then.
there was more than one. Only real difference between a porsche 911 and a TX5 turbo was instead of a flat head screwdriver you used long nose pliers.
and the porsche sounds better at 6500 RPM. good times.
He was in perth also, Brett cappa, Porsche kid
Well you got what you wanted you just covered this story
He did a video on it lol
Every time I watch 337 SPEED videos, I think this guy was born to do this!
facts mf don't miss
He has The Voice.
Stopping for fuel mid chase is fucking diabolical 😭
God that Brandt keypad alarm was such a piece of crap. I had 2 WRXs with it, it would stop working every now and then for no reason, leaving you stranded. The best mod to do for any Subaru with it is to rip it out and install an aftermarket alarm/immobilizer system.
Yep
Had my 02 sti for 9 years now and hated the keypad, until it stopped the car being stolen
@@jackmiller7667 Oh it's very effective at stopping thieves, problem is it's also effective at stopping the owner driving it too. Got a mongoose m80 and never looked back.
100% man I’ve removed heaps, lucky my gc8 come with a half decent monguse alarm
This is cool and all but we can’t deny that Hector is going to be running 3 Honda Civics with spoon engines. And on top of that he just came into Harry's and he ordered 3 T66 turbos, with NOS, and a Motec system exhaust.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
lol "pop the hood jesse"
What do you think Lance, forty weight? fifty weight?
@@MrOtistetrax Forty weight sounds nice.
I almost had you
Real talk, my mate was one of the guys that were doing ATMs and Smash N Grabs with these WRXs here in the inner city of Sydney. He ended up being shot by the police in a stolen WRX after doing a Ram Raid. The officer was charged with 4 charges, but wasn't convicted, if I remember correctly. The entire reason why NSW police bought the WRX police car was because of his crew. It was a great time growing up in Sydney back then. There were hotties (stolen or "hot" cars) in the area all the time. WRXs, RS Turbos, GTRs, Porsches, you name it. What's left unsaid in this story, is that it was all because of how hard heroin Sydney. The Viet boys in Cabramatta were making millions, and every inner city crim was out there terrorising the city. It never stopped in the early GC8 Ram Raid days though. They ended up moving on to Armaguards. My cousin got arrested in a $6 million dollar armed robbery. Sydney was off tap back then.
Man I hope they all learned their lessons. Life is short but you don't have to make it shorter or harder...
@@endjfcar Honestly, most of them are doing long sentences in jail these days. Sydney had a massive crime wave back then. Some of them were “good kids” that got dragged into it by a worse group, but most were already petty criminals that got much worse once they were addicted. Google “Sydney Armaguard $6 million” and you’ll see what they ended up doing. My cousin was arrested in the sweep they did, but everyone beat the charges. The crew ended up getting arrested one by one for other charges. The cops weren’t going to let it slide.
I wasn’t expecting a story to be put upon the loved Impreza.
However seeing the Lancer Evo there just bolsters how lethal
these two cars are in all kinds of scenarios… love the content as always !
Evo and STI forever a brotherhood
Parents are ex coppa's from NSW and they always used to say that they could never catch the WRX's. After seeing this I had to ask them more questions and tell them, "there's a documentary about who you couldn't catch 🤣".
AUSTRALIA - Eastlakes (my area) and most of the suburbs mentioned are sourouning suburbs. I remember as a kid watching WRX get chased through Maroubra Junction. I remember the ramraids on Oshkosh and atms... Man this brings back news report and paper clipping memories of this model WRX. Things tamed down by BugEye literally none were chased.. What a hectic video to bring up all these things. Over 20 years later I now own one of these GC8s... Crazy.... Great vid!
Knew I'd find a few Sydney boys in these comments lol. Grew up in the inner city, and Rexxies were *The Car* to steal. A lot of boys from Glebe, Redfern, etc were ripping ATMs, banks, ram raids, and doing smash n grabs with them. My mate got shot in one and almost died.
@@MarioGoatse Damn man thats heavy about your mate! Im guessing car jack or mistaken identity? And yep, most came from the inner city. It was the Wild West!
The Toyota Corolla with a boxer engine that gave police hell. 🤣🤣👌👌
garbage engine*
@@retrocompaq5212**with a Subaru engine
@@retrocompaq5212 bros going around shouting “subaru bad” in all the comment threads 🤨
@retrocompaq5212 not garbage***
That would be your mother@@retrocompaq5212
The cops here in Sydney hated them so bad.
I remember back in 2000 in the peak of the ram raids my mate was driving home in his MY2000 and had blown pretty much the whole gearbox and only had 5th so was putting with hazards on got pulled over cops came out with guns drawn and pulled him out of the car. (Quite rare in Aust for cops to draw guns).
After some questioning while cuffed and a few phone calls. They apologised. Their reason was theat they saw the car going so slow with hazards flashing and thought it was stolen and the shitty factory immobiliser was trying to do its thing.
Classic police jumping to conclusions with their unacceptable actions and behavior, like bullets stop vehicles...
idk i feel like they were perfectly justified here man 😭@@Snarf_Le_Wombat
Nice piece on the WRX. I find it pretty cool that the WRX in Baby Driver was a nod to the car's criminal history.
This is hands down one of if not the BEST automotive channels on the Tube.. Your knowledge and research are beyond reproach. Couple that with your obvious passion for speed, the journalistic presentation, and we get automotive gold. 👌🏽
You should 100% have your own show on TV. I'm genuinely surprised you don't have a multi-million subscriber count! 🤔
Keep the quality content coming, sir. We will all be watching and supporting!
🐐🐐🫡
As someone who lives and breathes the GC/GM/GF Chassis. I can tell you they are amazing to drive and addictive, super easy to mod and if you are realistic with power goals they will treat you well. Thanks for this one.
I've got a GG, and absolutely adore it. what I wouldn't do for a clean GG tho...
There great cars, just sad there isn’t many good ones left anymore
It would be really cool if you could make a video about the frequent use of the Audi RS6 as a getaway car for blowing up ATMs in Germany and the Netherlands
I don't support criminal activity, but this and 40RA are LEGENDARY! Dudes took the cops on one of the longest chases in history, buddy gets caught and they ran it back THE NEXT NIGHT.
The sudden urge to buy a tiny super sedan is palpable
Knew about the wrx's being used in australia, but the Evo 6 being used in a robbery was pretty surprising, since they were much rarer than subarus
Love that the Evo ran out of fuel - they combined remarkable thirst with a tiny fuel tank!
I knew through boys that were using them here in Sydney. It started with RS Turbos, then when the WRX hit Australia it was massively popular to steal them. Any 4wd turbo was good, but they loved the WRX. A mate of mine got shot in a stolen WRX in Sydney. Survived, but still with a bullet in his chest
@@MarioGoatsewho the fuck is stealing a WRX?!😂 Wild. We make fun of them in America
Crazy the fast and the furious 1 vibes here, just with a wrx instead of a civic. I love it 🎉
I'd say more more like 2 Fast 2 Furious vibes. Cause it actually had an Evo, used as a getaway car to transport drug money (and funnily enough the Eclipse had a WRX's engine sound dubbed over). The only difference being of course that Brian and Roman were ultimately in league with the police, not the criminals.
Aussie cops actually figured out that wrx front radiators were a ridiculously weak point after they field tested them to possibly use them as highway patrol chasers. Due to the big wide open front bumper grills for big airflow meant a little front end hit usually meant the radiator would crack, the engine would over heat within minutes and the chase was over.
And Howie did it?
A front bumper guard should honestly come standard for any police vehicle. It's a weird hill to die on
Lol its how the killdozer died, radiator fucked, coolant leaked and chase over
The way I remember it, Killdozer got high-centered and stuck before it overheated. Not remotely the same thing.
@@ohnaw223no, it got stuck. One of the tracks broke into the basement of a building.
“It’s what makes a Subaru a Subaru”
You remember that one clip in Top Gear? They destroyed a Lancer Evo that was used for running drugs. Fuck that thing was zippy, even on gravel.
The English cop car in the outro CG being a Rover SD1 deserves special praise. The subbie might have been faster but I'd take the style and sound of the SD1 any day.
That car has such great body lines, I wish we got them in the states😣
@@337speedyou did actually get the rover 3500 (sd1) in the usa
2:16 Just gonna slide in some Gran Turismo 3 menu music, eh?
Gave me my daily fix for nostalgia😀
@@337speed Yessir!
I caught that 2. Darn that brings me back
that explains why my insurance is so darn high on my subie
I can only imagine being one of the officers trying to catch them and you just hear that car blast by at full speed. Probably getting shivers down your back just from the amazing sound. They are so damn goodsounding.
audi 2.2 and 2.3 5cylinder sound, and of course this impreza sound, these are in my opinion, 2 best engine sounds on the planet, and you will recognize them anywhere
@@ediiis11 I would add the Hellcat engines as well with their characteristic whining.
Mate the wrx sounds like shit
For the first several years the WRX was available in the US (before the STi was brought over) it was insured as a little two liter four door commuter car.
It took years for insurance companies in there US, and the public, to realize what these were capable of.
The WRX wasn’t the first “rally car” to be sold. But, it did blow up in a way most others didn’t.
There sure wasn’t a lot of fuss over the GT Four Celica from Toyota a few years earlier (an all wheel drive little monster).
Celica.
When the bugeye was released in the states there was some motoring shown that commented how close it looked to the dodge neon. "But it's going to take the cops a little while to realize.....this.......is the fast one!"
Let me get this straight… robbers using STi and Evo 6was part of 200 Km police chase and only Evo 6 got caught? 😅 subbie for life 👍👍👍
they probably only caught it because of the spike strip.
the gran turismo music was a perfect touch
Now I understand why you can use WRXs on the finale of the Diamond Heist in GTA.
The opening of "Baby Driver" was flat out a Subaru commercial.
I daily drive a 1997 Tommy kaira M20b wagon, TK0747, based on the Subaru WRX.
One of only 105 made between 1993 and 2000: The rarest GF8 in the world.
It leaves an STi in the dust.
And it is one of the greatest cars ever made. Period.
This is a good ad for the WRX 🤣
I friggin love this channel not gonna lie please my friend keep making this content I know it’s a lot of work and I really appreciate it and you’re so knowledgeable and I’ve learned a lot from you I already watched about the coyote the Camaro the ford gt and the mustang I love how you give detailed information on the engines and it’s amazing the way you put these videos together idk why you don’t have millions of subscribers 🤷🏾♂️
Used to be the top most stolen car in New Zealand. Now it's the Toyota Aqua. No joke. The price to insure an Aqua over here is $3000NZD! I thought my turbo Aristo was bad at $1000NZD!
Its good because my first gen legacy turbo's insurance is finally coming down a bit haha.
Do you have to argue with the value over the aristo? Fuck every year I have to have it valued
@@kradikt666 Hah. Yeah. "The market value is $6000". Find me one at that price. I'll snap-buy it.
You are so damn entertaining to listen to. "It was forged in the crucible of world rally" you describe everything with such clarity and artistry. Keep up the great work🎉
In Australia the police called the GC8 WRX the "stolen generation".
Growing up in New Zealand in the early 2000s every time there was a police chase on the news its was either a turbo legacy or wrx and what's sad is they are still getting stolen after 30 years now that I'm older I have 2 wrx sti's and a twin turbo legacy I've done everything I can to prevent them being the next ram raid victim on tv
this is the best subaru commercial I've ever seen
Absolutely 10/10 on the visuals and commentary…. Ford transit vans where use for get away vehicles aswell back in the day, you should do a video of that.
"can't outrun radio" "can't outrun helicopters" 😂
foliage man, foliage.
A Hellcat did outrun helicopters. It also ran out of gas in under 15 minutes.
RA 40 outran the police helicopter on the M6
@@legiran9564extended fuel Tanks in trunk is very real.
NYC swimmers lol
Any chance we will get an explained for ecu??👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀
Engine Control Unit
Eating Cabbage Unsupervised
@@yourfriendlyneighborhoodjinx Extreme Cow Union
How long is a piece of string? Every ECU and car is different, though the basics are standardised. The ECU talks to the BCM and other modules across the car over the CAN network, it is the main computer that in simple terms coordinates what the other modules in the car are doing and when. If you print something on your computer, your computer sends a message saying 'print this data', just like your ECU sends a message saying 'pulse the injectors'
This just popped up on my feed. Subscribed! After almost three years of coveting a Rex. I got mine in December 1997. Shortly after was when all the ramraiding stuff was hitting the news in Perth. I didn't have a lock up garage, so there were a few stressful months. That car was my faithful daily for the next 24 years
Seriously?
World Rally Cross??
WRC is the World Rally Championship dude 💀
they mean the same thing; racing on the dirt around the world
@@Vincent_Cherronrally cross and stage rally very different things
@@Vincent_Cherron definitely not. Rally cross are multiple cars all at once on a small circle track that was purposely built.
WRC is stage rally on public roads of different surfaces (asphalt, gravel, ...) and they are racing point to point. Also it's timed and not head to head racing
@@Vincent_Cherron Absolutely not. Rally Cross is a multi-lap circuit race on half tarmac/ half mixed-surface arenas, with all cars racing at the same time and the first one to cross the line is the winner. WRC events are held on point to point courses set on public roads, all cars do their runs separately and the car that finishes in the quickest time is the winner.
Such a fail Indeed😂. And all the Subaru owners don’t even notice that 🤣 says enough how not smart they are 🤦♂️
This has become my most favorite youtube channel. The quality of these videos is amazing. I sure hope he does nothing byt get bigger and more popular
9:10 they should of went right for the nearest airport when they heard the chopper lmao 😭
the Scooby Impreza did not “Forge it’s reputation in the field of World Rallycross” it was supreme in the Word Rally Championship.
Big difference, Rallycross is not a point to point long distance multistage race on open roads, forest tracks with some closed off roads, it’s a circuit of mixed terrain in a sealed environment of short multiple laps.
Dude how much work are those videos💁🏽♂️😘😘
Couple days on research and script and solid week of editing, pulling newspaper clippings and footage😅 I enjoy the process
@@337speed yeah the videos are like movies🙂for me who cutted a few clips of gaming content and i know much work even that was, your editing and content is mind blowing. Good work😊
@@337speed Lotus Carlton got some serious competition now. BTW, Can you do a video, where you tune your own car and rip it on the streets
An LS build
With something like a C5 Corvette. They are affordable(Cheap is a strong word tbh) nowadays.
yet another banger from 337 speed. love your content and editing, dude. especially the editing, the hard work doesn’t go unnoticed 👀🔥🔥🔥
My first car was a 93 1.8L wagon awd 5 speed. I didn't realize the potential they had until finding the rs25 forums while doing research about what car to buy. I read through a lot of the build threads there where people were building the normal impreza into what they call an RSTI. I slowly built mine to look like a version 1 STI clone but never had the money to actually swap it. Set it up for autocross and it did that surprisingly good. Got it with 93k miles and sold it due to it rusting out floorboards at 290k.
I figured it would be used for parts but i just saw it driving through town yesterday.
Sweet ending
How long ago did you sell it? If it's been awhile that's cool that you got to see it again still running.
I'm currently preparing for one of those swaps myself. I bought a 95 1.8 coupe specifically to do the swap. I have a V8 EJ207 with the 6 speed DCCD to put into it. The plan is to participate in my local rallycross and eventually be able to do at least one ARA rally each year.
Just about any of those older Imprezas have become a sought after car by Subaru car enthusiast. Even the rusty ones are being fix and restored with welding skills because they are becoming rare.
There was no 3500cc class in Group A for the World Rally Championship. That class was only available for the Group A Touring cars. Wrold rally cars were all less than or equal to 1999cc with turbos plus restrictors. Furthermore, the car was not 30kg overweight, that was the safari spec with the heavier bashguards and spare wheels. FIA isn't allowed to disclose the weightbridge weights at any rally unless there is an underweight rule breached (to prevent teams or the public from calculating how heavy the driver and navigator are).
I knew Baby Driver was real
LOL
I love your voice and the way you narrate + I really enjoy the "illegal" series of your videos. Keep it up !
The ford V8 of the roaring 20s and great depression? And the supped up Model A's of the moonshine runners and robber's?
Nakajima Aircraft Co. made some of the greatest aircraft of ww2, like the Ki-84.
Nakajima became Subaru after the war and this car is a spiritual descendant of those state of the art fighter planes.
Mate, we had V8 commodores that destroyed this car in speed and acceleration. Unfortunately, our coppers weren't capable of driving such weapons, unlike these fellas.
Loved my 2002 Bug Eye. STI was not yet available in Canada so I "settled" for the less powerful base WRX. Choice of 2 colors - Silver or World Rally Blue. 227 HP on the base WRX mated to a 5 speed manual and hydraulic clutch. While the 5-box made it quick to 60mph (5.1 seconds if I remember) it did make it a pig on gas on the highway since at about 70 mph the motor would be turning about 3,000 RPM. It did allow you to often pass other vehicles without shifting down, I always thought it would have been nice to have a 6th gear for highway speed. There was also tons of parts for after-market tuning, handling, and cosmetic changes.
I’m not tryna be that guy but I’m pretty sure stock ej20s were open deck or at the most semi closed 👀 3:37
337 your channel is awesome I’ve watched you grow so much. Thanks for your time and effort. Again thank you .
I bought a WRX in 2017 to see if Subarus were even worth a shit. It was a $27,000 base model. I bought this because I wasn't even sure if the STI was worth the money. At the time I believe they were around $40,000. One of my regrets in life is that I didn't just buy the STI. I live where it snows heavy occasionally. One day, just to see if the WRX was actually a rally car, I drove the car down a dirt road that runs parallel with the freeway. I had ws80 blizzaks on the car at the time, and it had recently snowed- so there was snow covering mud. This was a graded and Flat Road, but the traction was awful for any car. I sat in the dirt and waited for a car to pass me that was on the freeway. I dumped the clutch and let her rip, and I was seriously going 60 to 70 in mud and snow and passing cars on the freeway like they were standing still. It blew my mind.
Almost same here, I bought a brand new 2016 wrx base with the factory short throw shifter. After about $7k in performance mods, it was a beast! The FA20DIT is a much more reliable engine than the EJ, that’s why I chose a regular WRX instead of the STI. I had around 330 WHP.
@@keijimorita1849cope. I had a 2012 wrx that got t-boned, replaced it with a 2012 sti. The STI is better lmao.
Living in New England with a Subaru, I don’t have an excuse not to show up to to work when it snows. I love giving a little bit of BOV to trucks and jeeps fishtailing all over the place when I fly past them
@enemyspotted2467 I think that's my favorite part about owning one. They are stupid fast in snow and ice with snow tires on. It's my first all wheel drive car and I'm not sure if I want to go back.
@@enemyspotted2467 I coped by deleting my original comment because I am not interested in dealing with rude people like you. I need to stay off of youtube. Too many common folk on here.
4:59 That’s sonic blue mica, my friend!
My bro had a ‘97 WRX STi Type R in sonic blue. It was VERY fast between 100 and 160 kph, where you’d do most of your passing. We once followed the world rally guys around between stages, it was a blast. We got up to the end of the dial at 180 but I don’t know how fast we actually got to- the revs weren’t bouncing before the next bend. The Type R had closer to 300 Hp, and stuff like adjustable F/R torque, engine bay strut, intercooler, lighter weight and 2 doors.
I particularly liked the bucket seats and the car felt super safe (in spite of the doors being very thin compared to modern cars) because of how stable and firm it was. To me, hard suspension is safe suspension. An amazing car.
Also, the ram raiders loved WRXs because you could smash through the front of a shop and the car could take it and kept driving… like a proper rally car. It also was more than a match for the police Holdens or Fords if you were a decent driver.
the hellcat american's brain would implode upon hearing this information
Im Canadian where everything we hear about is American, but I always stood out as the black sheep in the room when I would say as a kid, my favorite car chase ever, was "Getaway in Stockholm" with the Supra and Cosworth! 🤘
Especially since a Hellcat would leave any Subaru in the dust, just like most other V8's including trucks...until you have to turn LOL
I live in Sydney, Australia. I know someone who owned a WRX, this was about ten or so years ago now. He woke up to it being stolen one day, and shortly after, it was seen on the news being used as the getaway in a bank robbery. About a week or so later he found the car parked on a street near where he lived. He had to report it to the police and unfortunately didn't get it back, but it was an awesome car I still remember sitting in as a kid.
Bro baby driver was not influential in any of this, it’s a new ass movie 😂
haa, if this foo wanted to shoehorn something in he could have used Initial D!
He actually never said it was. I believe he said before the movie ever came out. He might have reference the movie because of some of the similarities.
@@daexion watch again, he said it helped inspire their actions. Its a less than 10 year old movie
@@WigneyR He said BEFORE Baby Driver.
"Before the Baby Driver movie would put the WRX in the spotlight amongst popular culture, [...] the WRX was more sinister and played a major role in the underground workings of the black market."
Smugglers and pirates prefer the Corellian built light freighters for the same reasons the the public prefer them. They are functional, reliable, easy to modify, fast, and have quality armaments and defenses. For this reason the Empire will be placing limits on certain models and restricting the sale of others. Long live the Empire!⚙
We had a crew of young black fellas in Sydney called the WRX boys theys honk the horn out front of police stations to get chasers. The police ended up shooting some of the boys.
Why’d they’d shoot them?
@naija395 for running its never a good idea to run from police. To many times guys have gotten themselves shot in back thinking nah they won't dump on me.
@ yeah that’s ridiculous. I don’t know what the laws say in Sydney but in the US, running from the police is not a crime punishable by death.
Love the production value of your videos. Its like im watching a film.
I’m still terrorising in Sydney Australia , cold starts at 7am and breaking hearts at every light in my stage 2.5 pro tuned 2019 sti.
Have a good run by my 2003 blob that I put together and tuned myself with true flex fuel. Well it would if you were in qld. :D My satisfaction win or loose is I did it all by myself. They can be both fun and a pain in the butt being daily drivers.
Ahh the pure wanker subie owner, sadly not a rare animal.
Never forget, Europe's GhostRider 666 outran a police helicopter with the best tuned up WRX, in the streets of London.
3 minutes gahd I don’t even that last like that
when i finally buy one of these, im gonna ride around listening to Jazz music just so it can take me back to Gran Turismo 2 on PS1
I had one of these try me in my Genesis 5.0 Rspec, he didn't like the result. In all honesty, it is never the car, but the driver that wins in evasion.
wow who would've thought, a much newer sports car won over the significantly older one. You really showed him..
I ain't gonna lie but the way you tell the story and how you show it visually deserves a like
Keep it up
9:50 The solution to this problem is head to your nearest international airport. The biggest one, the chopper cant penetrate airspace giving you a chance to vanish in the parking garage. Plan a recovery vehicle there on the outside of the garage to bounce and... la la.
I dont do this by the way... I would never. 😇 I am a very good boy.
Ah yes, airports. Famously light security presence around airports.
That would work if it didn't take one short radio call with flight control to override that rule. Real life doesn't work like GTA V
This was a great profile . I do love the intoxicating sound of that boxer engine 👍👍
Pov : you are looking for a Real content creator on youtube and you came across this channel
bro you've made a good job ,keep going
Man your videos look so good, never stop 😫
I can’t believe there hasn’t been a movie made about this. I would make a better story than the last Fast n Furious movie.
The closest movie that has depicted a WRX as a getaway car has been Baby Driver.
Love your channel, followed for a couple of years because it's always a slick video with great technical descriptions, keep up the good work. The late 90s in the UK there were loads of shagged out wrx's under tarps laid up, they had such a rep,, another lost hero from a few years from a bit earlier was the VW Corrado G60, high performance bad ass hatch that was almost an exclusive d£££ dealer car. Good work
I blame Baby Driver for this
Nah, those incidents happened way *WAY* before that movie even existed.
@@xraider927 I bless these guys for Baby Driver
....Another friday in Lafayette, relaxing and watching 337s new vid drop!👊
“now the impreza got away, only to be used in a armed robbery the next day” LMFAOOO
You have a Gift to tell stories. Thanks for the great content!
One thing that stood out to me was the comment regarding how Subaru didn’t have an immobilized; thereby, making them easy to steel. I thought Hyundai and Kia were the only company that failed to address this.
This channel just keeps getting better and better! I look forward to each new video dropping. You do excellent research, your editing is on point, and your narration adds the finishing touch! 💪🏻😎
I used to have a 1995 Legacy sedan. Not as fast or as nimble as the higher end Impreza, but if you knew how to flick it through some corners you could still make a clean getaway.
(Only avoiding tickets, nothing sinister)
I'm not endorsing my past behavior, I'm only endorsing Subaru... I miss that car.
I know what you mean. One of the first Subarus that I drove that impressed me was a 97 Legacy sedan with a manual transmission when I worked at a dealership. I could always feel the AWD grip more in the manual models. My current 05 WRX manual grips like a beast.
@@evoman44 I absolutely love how their older cars look and feel, pre-2009 for the Impreza and pre-2005 for the Legacy.
What I really miss about my '95 was the ability to brake hard, downshift, flick it into a corner sideways with weight transfer and pin the gas. Not much power with the ej22, but still fun and fairly controllable with the slightly longer wheelbase compared to the Impreza.
I want to either get another one, or find a good 2005 Saabaru/WRX wagon in Saab skin.
I just came across this channel few moments ago. I watched this video and than the "ZL1" story, after which I came back here.
I live in UK and ye, kids are buying German cars, but boys with balls are getting Japanese cars still. There is literally nothing left out of British manufacturers and American cars are u reliable, not as confortabile as germans, not as tunable as Japanese ones, and they lack character. There are few American, some more Asian, but still. I can definitely say this culture of Japanese cars aka JDMs still exists here in UK and it's cool.
I suggest you to make more stories like this one, doesn't matter which car you choose, just make more because in my humble opinion, you rock on them. Good luck with the channel and subscribed. :)
Easily my most favorite channel in relation to cars.
Another well put together video 👏🏽 🏆 dude you were born to do this
love what you do man ima keep up with the speed 337 podcast aswell