The Subaru Impreza is a compact car that was first introduced by Subaru in 1993.
"IMPREZA" is a coined word, deriving from an originally Italian word, impresa, meaning a feat or achievement. In Polish, "IMPREZA" means "party", "case" or "show".
The IMPREZA was introduced after the popular Leone / Loyal to canceled the aging EA series engine. The IMPREZA was introduced with the popular EJ series engine found in the larger Subaru Legacy.
Subaru is the only company that can claim that their drivetrain is symmetrical for this size of the class of vehicle.
Compared to vehicles of the same size class, such as Toyota Corolla, Honda Civic, Nissan Sentra, Hyundai Elantra and Mazda Protegé/Mazda3, only IMPREZA AWD has always offered, and since 1996 Subaru made this feature standard equipment in some markets. Subaru produces a smaller volume of a little luxury, well equipped, sporting IMPREZA models, unlike other contemporaries, in the category of compact offering unadorned trims the base.
Subaru chose to continue their longstanding use of the boxer engine in IMPREZA. According to Subaru, the configuration of the engine with the transmission line to minimize the swing due to the lower center of gravity compared to the engines to compensate for most other vehicles. Subaru's design is also lightweight and lends itself easily to support all-wheel drive, with power delivered directly to the front and rear wheels, using a transfer case located inside the transmission. The perfect boxer design to reduce vibration due to the fact that the movement of each piston is exactly countered by the corresponding piston in the opposing cylinder bank, eliminating the need for a counter-rotating weighted crankshaft (harmonic balancer). Torque steer is also reduced with this type of power design from the first drive shafts are of equal length and weight.
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