If you’re interested in the latest Subaru WRX but wished it offered a little more practicality, maybe the wagon version is what you need. Without further ado, here’s a full gallery of the new WRX Wagon, which is essentially the second-generation Levorg with the WRX’s powertrain and name.
Priced at RM285,245 on-the-road without insurance, the WRX Wagon is cheaper than its sedan sibling that starts at RM286,245 for the six-speed manual version and peaks at RM296,245 if you want a CVT and the EyeSight suite of driver assistance systems. Each purchase is accompanied by a five-year/100,000-km warranty.
For the money, you’re getting a FA24F 2.4 litre turbocharged flat-four petrol engine rated at 275 PS (271 hp or 202 kW) at 5,600 rpm and 375 Nm of torque from 2,000 to 5,200 rpm. The WRX Wagon is only offered with a CVT (dubbed Subaru Performance Transmission) that is accompanied by Subaru’s Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive and Active Torque Vectoring system.
The wagon body style means you get 561 litres of boot space instead of the sedan’s 354 litres, and that figure is inclusive of the 69 litres of underfloor storage. It should be noted that the 60:40 split-folding rear bench in the WRX Wagon can be reclined or fully folded down for an unobstructed storage space. You’ll also notice there’s no black body cladding around the wheel arches like there are on the WRX sedan.
In terms of equipment, the WRX Wagon mirrors the top-spec WRX sedan and comes standard with steering responsive LED headlamps with High Beam Assist, 18-inch alloy wheels (with 225/45 profile tyres), LED front and rear fog lamps, keyless entry and engine start, a 10-way powered driver’s seat, leather upholstery, dual-zone climate control with rear vents, selectable drive modes and an 11.6-inch touchscreen infotainment system with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay.
To continue, the kit list includes an electronic parking brake with auto brake hold, seven airbags (front, side curtain and driver’s knee), autonomous emergency braking, autonomous emergency steering, reverse automatic braking as well as blind spot monitoring. The WRX wagon also comes with has an eight-way powered front passenger seat that is absent in the WRX sedan.
Given the pricing, would you pick the WRX Wagon over its more expensive sibling? You get the same features as the WRX sedan with CVT and EyeSight, but with the added advantage of increased practicality and at RM1,000 less. While it may be called the WRX Wagon here, the model goes by other names depending on where it’s sold. In Japan, it’s called the Levorg, while in Australia and New Zealand, it is the WRX Sportswagon and WRX GT respectively.
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If u like it, it is cheap
The output is more like a turbo 2 litre rather than a 2.4
Yet another Ah Beng maths example from the University of Fast and Furious. Boy, go learn engineering in college and then talk.
Stock Ford Focus RS 2.3L EcoBoost 6MT (350 HP) ; CylindersL4 ; Displacement2261 cm3
Did you get your engineering degree at a college in 110km/h-land (Japan)?
So finally ford focus is getting discontinued. What is the reason?
This is exactly the type of ah Beng engineering knowledge we’re talking about. So you know nothing about how many percentage of volumetric efficiency increase per psi of pressure and what tensile strength of materials needed to withstand combustion at those pressures to generate how much power per unit displacement, do you? And these all translate to long-term reliability of the engines as well as output linearity.
If you play less Nintendo and research more on the Internet, you would save your parents college money.
The AMG M133 2.0L engine launched in 2013 produces 360HP in the A45/CLA45/GLA45. The newer M139 introduced in 2020, which is an improved M133 is pushing 416HP.
The VW EA888 2.0L TSI makes 241HP in the mk8 Golf GTI. A simple stage 1 tune could easily push it up to 275HP. The same engine in the Golf R is tuned to 315HP. EA888 was introduced in 2008 and is currently gen3.
The Honda K20C1 2.0L in the Civic Type R FL5, carried over from the previous generation with minor changes makes 325HP. K20A started production in 2001.
Dude was absolutely correct when he said the output from that 2.4L is similar with other 2.0L turbo engines. 22 years ago, Honda was already pushing more HP than Scooby’s 2.4L.
Another Ah Beng who doesn’t know engineering and can’t tell the difference between engines built for long-term reliability vs high-strung engines that are living on the edge. For every PSI of boost, how many percent of HP & torque gain can you expect? That’s one of the reasons why Subaru moved for a 2.4 turbo boxer that puts out similar figures as the previous 2.0 turbo boxer.
And for a 2-liter engine to put out over 300 horses, how much pressure is needed to get there? At those pressures, how much tangential friction is increased between the piston and cylinder walls, and increased off-center force between the conrods and the crankshaft in between TDC and BDC? At those pressures, during the compression stage, how much higher does the direct injection pressure need to be to overcome the cylinder pressure and how does this change the high pressure pump drive mechanism, and how does this hold up in the long run?
You ah bengs only look at HP and torque like Standard 1 kids playing those “Future Cars” card games back in the 80s. “Higher number = better” and that’s all you know.
Apparently u are more pandai than those AMG,VW and Honda engineer! Wow I’m impressed!
No, it just means you haven’t been there and done that. I came from the generation of people who bored our SOHC 4G15 blocks to get over 1.6 liters of displacement and put in custom cam grinds with our own custom velocity stack intake just to be able to give the 1.8 4G93 Satria GTIs a bloody nose at Sepang. And from there we went on to BOT and we know why it’s foolhardy to boost the old but robust 4G1 block to the moon and get only 170hp when we can start with a 4G9 block and get it to 250hp at lower boost pressures.
You know what’s the difference between these highly-strung AMG engines and the “lower powered” turbo engines from Toyota and Subaru? You can drive the Toyota and Subaru turbo engines for 300,000km, with more than half of it covering hard driving and track days, and at the end of the 300,000km you just need a usual head job and probably replace the conrod and crank journal bearings if we spot some side-to-side play.
But the insane 2-liter AMG engine you guys are talking about? AMG requires you to REBUILD that engine after 250,000km. Do you know what “REBUILD” means? In real-life, with casual (but fast) driving, you might need to rebuild it by 200,000km. If you do hard driving and do track days half the time, you might even need to rebuild it shortly after 100,000km.
And that’s the difference between starting with a higher displacement and pushing it just enough to make it a powerful all-rounder, and going all-out with a small displacement engine and make it highly-strung.
forced-induction boxer engine already reached technology limitation
Did you know that Porsche started using boxer engines 30 years before Subaru? But most people think that it was Subaru who started first. In fact, it was invented by a German engineer called Karl Benz in 1897.
It is not about technology limitations. Subaru has higher priority on Reliability rather than Performance. In the hands of the STI team, I’m sure they can easily wring 350HP from that engine without sacrificing too much reliability. Of course, the CVT cannot handle that kind of power.
maybe subaru copied the wrong boxer engine pioneer from milano italia instead of stuttgart deutchland?
Do u think sprinter or marathoner can have longer life?
Suburu gives a five-year/100,000-km warranty (only 20,000 km per year.). So the WRX is surely not a marathoner. 20,000km per year I go with a kapchai already.
Shame lah. Kereta best. Harga saja yg x masuk akal. Xde lg kot kereta pakai CVT atas RM250k. Semata2 ada turbo dan cc besar sikit dr Subaru yg biasa.
Harge kat luar dalam 117k kalau tak silap… Anthony loke dan rahmah pricing punye pasal jadi la camni… Murah ni…
Harga kereta dah mahal. Bila RM200 k dah jadi harga Camry/Accord, RM250k ni sangat2 entry level untuk performance/luxury range.
Lexus pakai cvt, takde satu pun bawah rm250k
Alphard yg cc lg besar dan 8-speed auto lg mahal dari Vellfire 2.5 dan CVT. Percayalah, CVT adalah teknologi murah, utk org yg kurang mampu. Lexus yg pakai CVT adalah utk org kaya yg tak cerdik/tak peduli pun pasal driving feel. Nak pakai CVT? Silakan. Aku dan org kampung aku says “no to CVT”. Proton pun dh pelan2 beralih dari CVT.
Tak dinafikan, CVT menjimatkan fuel consumption. Subaru kalau pakai normal AT gearbox, takde sapa nk beli, kuat minyak. Subaru patut cuba DCT.
to be fair, Lexus’ use CVTs too and they’re far more expensive then Subaru’s but i get your point.
Very practical car loaded with features. Only wish it’s not a CVT
The new impreza will come to Malaysia?
absolutely love wagons. so unfortunate they’re unpopular in malaysia.
Cause pickup trucks is cheaper than this, and more better in terms of practically. But yeah, each kind of cars have their own market, but here in Malaysia, they tend to only bring in cars that are more logical and profitable. So it’s a sad story.
Pickup truck has bigger space yes, but that’s the mindset of people who don’t enjoy driving cars.
It’s basically if you want the drive quality of a sedan car but with more practical boot space. Completely not comparable with a hilux. If you don’t care about how it feels when driving or riding and you just want the maximum boot space, then pickup truck is the way to go.
WRX wagon fights only with the few “wagon” cars in this country, which would be the Volvo V60 (more expensive than Subaru), Mazda 6 Touring (less expensive than Subaru) and the Audi RS4/RS6 Avant which has harga kayangan.
More choice is better for this country, and especially for drivers. WRX Wagon is another available choice for people who somehow want practical boot space and a nice driving experience. If they want to bring the car to track, better get the WRX MT instead, which is the same price as this WRX Wagon.
So the Impreza-derived range of vehicles finally come with rear aircond vents. Previous-gen Impreza, Levorg, Outback and Crosstrek/XV had no rear aircond vents..
X90 is 20yrs. ahead, it has for each of it,’s seven passengers an own vent.
Manual for sure. Garbage cvt
Great pricing. This is what we call RAHMAH pricing. Thank you pmx and anthony loke.
Car prices are Miti’s area.
Ah loke only deals with whether you need to put the sticker on your windscreen.
At that price, you have arteon and xc40 both with awd. But without the japanese reliability.
Rip STI
Based on previous model, Subaru cvt is that good ke? Been driving a cvt car for the past 8 years, really doubt its capability in handling high torque
8 years pun belum KO.
Commonly know Nissan Jatco CVT and VW DCT has suffering issues.
8 years ago is a long time. New CVTs are a monster. Maybe you don’t get launch control advantage but its much better at high speeds
Anyone can share experience taking corners with CVT, and that huge amounts of power and torque. How do you do your gearing or is it just plain braking at each corner?
CVT gearbox problem.hehe US consumer already ban this car brand,Mazda car 50x more reliable than this crappy car.
Mazda6 is quite boring.
So many blank buttons. Is this really the highest spec?
This or the golf r wagon?
Everyday naik genting pun no need such power.