We're about to correct some false impressions: That the WRX has been totally invalidated because it now offers a sort of automatic transmission (again) and because it's a little bit bigger than before.
Here's the truth. The WRX is still a certifiable blast -- a whizzy, turbocharged, all-wheel-driver. It's still the plasticky Ziploc slider that forms an airtight lock between the road and the sky.
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Read the full Subaru WRX 2014 review.