Same Perfect Size, But Way More Room
The current Impreza is the perfect size. It's easy to park and fits in tight spaces, yet it's big enough to carry a full load of your companions and gear. We didn't want to lose any of this, so we found a way to stretch the interior and make it even roomier, while keeping the overall vehicle length and width the same. Now, the trunk on the all-new sedan can carry four golf bags, compared to the previous model's three, and the size of the cargo area in the five-door also increased. Rear seat passengers weren't forgotten either, they gain two inches of legroom. Along with the added space, the 2012 Impreza also delivers a major step-up in refinement, with richer looking appointments and details everywhere. The dashboard, door trim, and center console armrest are now all made of soft-touch materials.
36 MPG, Right Out of the Box
Like most cars in its class, the Impreza will be offered with a choice of two transmissions, a manual or an automatic. And if you choose the automatic, there's no sacrifice in fuel economy. It gets 36 MPG on the highway. There's no economy pack, or extra bit of technology you have to spend another $2,000 to get. No, this is 36 MPG, right out of the box.
If you're thinking, "isn't an automatic transmission typically less economical than a manual?" You're right, but the 2012 Impreza's Lineartronic® CVT isn't anything like a conventional automatic. Rather than shifting between gears, it infinitely adjusts with a step-less gear ratio. Put simply, it doesn't have to go, "vroom, shift, vroom, shift, vroom, shift," to accelerate. It just goes, "vroom."
This not only improves fuel economy, but performance, too. It even makes for an equally, if not more impressive, city rating of 27 MPG. If you prefer to shift gears yourself, the five-speed manual transmission gets a, still-incredible, 33 MPG highway and 25 MPG city. And because we don't think you should have to sacrifice anything in terms of capability for fuel-efficiency, both transmissions have been optimized to work as efficiently as possible with our standard Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive system.
