{"id":21984,"date":"2023-05-13T00:01:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T07:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=21984"},"modified":"2023-05-09T18:46:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T01:46:55","slug":"a-tangerine-wrx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2023\/05\/13\/a-tangerine-wrx\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tangerine WRX"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are needs and there are wants.\u00a0 I don’t need a Subaru WRX, but I sure\u00a0 want one.\u00a0 I had my Outback in for service the other day, and the Subie dealer had a bright tangerine WRX on the showroom floor (Subie calls the color Solar Orange Pearl).\u00a0 Those cars are fast and appealing and I was all over it.\u00a0 I don’t need another car.\u00a0 But I sure want the WRX you see above.\u00a0 I’d name it Il Tangerino.<\/em><\/p>\n

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My 2006 WRX in Rally Blue. The fun factor was off the charts in this car.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Susie and I bought a new WRX in 2006 and it was one of the best and most fun cars we ever owned.\u00a0 We did a lot of great trips in that car.\u00a0 It had an automatic transmission (unusual for the WRX) and it was just a hoot to drive.\u00a0 It felt like a supercharged go kart, which in a way it sort of was.\u00a0 Turbocharged, anyway.\u00a0 It would go like a bat out of hell and one time when passing a long string of cars heading north on the 395, I looked down and saw I was doing a cool 140 mph.\u00a0 It was effortless. Like I said, these cars are fast.<\/p>\n

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The 2023 WRX. Nice.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I like the orange color.\u00a0 I had an orange Subie CrossTrek and my friends teased me about its bright orange paint.\u00a0 Laugh all you want.\u00a0 The CrossTrek was a good looking car and it was easy to find in a parking lot.<\/p>\n

I first drove a WRX when good buddy Tom tossed me the keys to his WRX when we were hanging around Bob Brown’s BMW dealership.\u00a0 Marty and I took it out for a spin, it was fast, and that ride was all it took.\u00a0 I bought the blue one you see above a short while later.<\/p>\n

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The WRX you see here has an automatic transmission. Slick. I want one.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Most WRX Subies have manual transmissions.\u00a0 \u00a0Those are okay, but I’m a bit more mature now and I prefer an automatic.\u00a0 Sit in California traffic a while and you will, too.<\/p>\n

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The WRX seats are hard but surprisingly comfortable.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I asked the sales guy at the Subie dealership what this one would go for and after the standard line of dealer crap (including the when are you going to buy, how much are you willing to offer, etc….I do love dealers and their sales people), he finally showed me their invoice.\u00a0 The bottom line is that this Subie would go for something slightly north of $32,000, not counting taxes and other fees.<\/p>\n

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I love that scoop. It’s for the turbo’s cooler.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My first thought was that $32K is not a bad price for a car like this (I recently read in the Wall Street Journal<\/em> that the average price for a new GM car is right at $50K today).\u00a0 The Subie you see here has a 2.4-liter engine and a turbocharger.\u00a0 You’re supposed to run premium fuel and here in the Peoples Republik premium is running north of $5 per gallon. so that’s probably a deal killer.\u00a0 But like I said at the start of this blog, there’s needs and there’s wants.\u00a0 I don’t need a new WRX, but I sure want this one.\u00a0 If enough of our readers click on the popup ads…who knows?<\/p>\n

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There are needs and there are wants.\u00a0 I don’t need a Subaru WRX, but I sure\u00a0 want one.\u00a0 I had my Outback in for service the other day, and the Subie dealer had a bright tangerine WRX on the showroom floor (Subie calls the color Solar Orange Pearl).\u00a0 Those cars are fast and appealing and … Continue reading “A Tangerine WRX”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[392,96,64],"tags":[481,3502,2303],"class_list":["post-21984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-back-in-the-day","category-feel-good-stuff","category-gear","tag-subaru","tag-turbocharged","tag-wrx"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_5178-900.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21984"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22159,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21984\/revisions\/22159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}