The 2022 Subaru WRX Is Better Than I Expected

Kudos to Doug for filming this despite being drenched in rain.

They should be body color. I’m sure aftermarket will make a killing on replacement fender flares

I hated it at first too, but then it slowly grew on me until it suddenly magically appeared in my driveway. I finally understand what subaru was doing when they made this car. The little improvements they’ve done to everything add up to a big difference. It’s an amazingly fun car and I got it for under MSRP I can’t wait to see what happens when it’s tuned.

can we give our boy a round of applause, this man recorded himself in the rain while wearing shorts, only a Doug would do something this bold

Every year that passes automakers further reinforce my love for old ass cars.

The arches have one benefit: You can probably widebody this car without cutting the arches.

I hated the arches until i seen them in person. They are not bad and for someone that lives in Western Pa they are actually pretty purposeful. The exposed rolled lip on the older WRX are good looking but they do suffer from chips pretty easily especially in the salt belt. Along with the wheel arches which are an improvement for winter use is the fact the that front bumper cover is roughly 6 different pieces (5 being unpainted plastic). So if you do hit a snow drift, dead animal or ice drift while parking and you crack the lower portion of the bumper cover you can replace the middle section for $65 dollars, the Side fog light area for $34 or the very lower corner area that extends into the wheel arch for $15 dollars. So a $15-$65 dollar part could be replacing an $800-1000 dollar job on the previous generation. It might not be as sporty but i actually think its an improvement for daily driving and especially daily driving in the winter/rust/salt belt areas.

In an older Subaru model on your birthday, when you turn on the car, the whole screen is taken up with a happy birthday, insert name here, message and a present with a bow. I felt very special. As I'm too old for some of this kind of stuff, I suppose this is how it feels to get a participation award.

Subaru: our focus group told us they want more aggressive styling - so we gave them plastic wheel arches. Subaru: we know 80% of our buyers choose a manual transmission - so we focused most of our budget on developing a new automatic transmission Subaru: we have these cool recaro seats - but you can’t have them unless you buy the automatic.

I think the remedy to making this car looking better with minimal effort on Subaru's end is to offer the cladding to be paint matched to the car. The black cladding just makes the wheels look tiny and emphasizes wheel gap

An honest review by Doug as always. I've seen only one of these so far in Texas and it does look better in person rather than pictures. It wouldn't surprise me if the new WRX does well in sales.

the fact that this guy filmed this video in rain shows nothing can stop doug from doing his work

You know its Dougcember when Doug uploads on a monday, that probably means he has lots of more interesting car uploads for december

WRX being just a trim of Impreza was never a problem to begin with, no one asked Subaru to make WRX a separate model, not only that, I think the WRX trim made the regular Impreza much cooler

I own an orange 22 WRX and I personally love it. I love the wheel arches with the bright orange. I had a 13 STI I and I think this car is just as fast as my STI. Love it!

Doug is on the money with this review. The main weird thing is it's hard to brake. You have to mash the brake pedal to stop quickly; otherwise, it's just a gradual stop.

9:56AM... AND a Monday upload? Wow, Doug’s really going all out.

Subaru is doing an amazing job maintaining the value of my '14 hatchback...

Just bought one of these and the first thing my friend said was that he hates the plastic 💀 BUT I live in a state with 8 month winters, all the salt, gravel and road dust absolutely tears up the paint on the wheel wells and trim up here, so my first thought upon seeing the plastic was "omg the pretty paints gonna survive!" My '99 eldorado is getting passed down to my brother and that poor paint has seen better days, I dont even wanna LOOK at the underside of the front bumper. My basic requirements for a car in Alaska were good awd, power and affordability, 30k for a sporty car? It's perfect 🥰

Doug: The screen is very responsive The screen: literally lagging behind half a second