The author's Experience with the Subaru STR

The author recently had the opportunity to try out the Subaru STR, a two-door model that was highly sought after by enthusiasts due to its reputation for being a formidable opponent on the track. The author was initially unimpressed with the vehicle, but as they began to drive it, they realized that it was much more capable than they had anticipated. One of the first things the author noticed about the STR was its aggressive packaging. "It really if you go doing this kind of stuff but it just sits exactly where you want it's got a good dip in it it's got a good box in it like it's it's made for doing this yes this is its purpose and you can make them really fast if you are if you pick the right recipe," they noted.

The author also appreciated the STR's ability to handle corners quickly, but warned that it was not without its drawbacks. "You can't still do it but you have to go that hundred new corner the cars dead if I I stopped oh it thinks we've got hijacked" they said, referencing a car alarm system that was designed to deter thieves but ultimately proved frustrating to use.

As the author continued to drive the STR, they found themselves becoming increasingly frustrated with its various quirks and flaws. The vehicle's gearbox, for example, seemed to be malfunctioning, and the author struggled to get in and out of the car without getting stuck or encountering other issues. "I'm just gonna say only for science I'm just gonna try to see if you can go quicker than Yaris Hilton then as long as you're not really going to WX," they joked, trying to bypass a limitation that seemed to be holding them back.

Despite its many flaws, the author was determined to push the STR to its limits and see what it could do. They set their sights on a track day event, where they hoped to put the vehicle through its paces and see just how well it would perform. "It's only for science," they said, grinning as they prepared to take the STR out for a spin.

As the author took to the track, they were surprised by how quickly and agilely the STR handled. The vehicle seemed to come alive under their feet, responding eagerly to every turn and input. "Feel good butter feels really good" the author cooed, as they put the pedal to the metal and saw just how fast this little car could go.

However, not all of the author's experiences with the STR were positive. The vehicle's alarm system, which was designed to deter thieves, ultimately proved to be a frustration. "This is the thing I freaking hate about this vehicle" the author said, exasperated by its quirks and flaws. And as they struggled to get in and out of the car without triggering the alarm, they couldn't help but feel a little annoyed.

As the day drew to a close, the author reflected on their experience with the Subaru STR. Despite its many flaws, they had come to appreciate the vehicle's unique qualities and quirks. "This has happened about five times since yesterday exactly cuz every like third time driving driving logzilla every time you started this happens" they noted wryly, acknowledging that the STR was a car that seemed to be prone to malfunctioning.

In the end, the author emerged with a newfound appreciation for the Subaru STR and its ability to surprise even the most seasoned drivers. While it may not have been perfect, the vehicle had proven itself to be a formidable opponent on the track - one that would stop at nothing to deliver a thrilling driving experience.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhow good is that feeling when you pick up a new car for the first time or even an old nugget Martin and or nugget particularly if it's a kind of old nugget that you've always had in the back your head man I would love to experience that car in that car modify that car do something cool with it you know what I've never owned one of these before in my the kind of nugget that you had these dreams if I have well check it out everybody it's Marty's new two-door STI for subaru fans everywhere at 2-door coupe is the Holy Grail the ultimate of these being the 22 B which is the rarest and while the Subaru ever made this is its closest relative also somewhat rare these were released by Subaru in Australia in 1998 they're special here as we didn't get coupes in any other form as some other countries did STI stands for Subaru Technica international which was established to enter the World Rally Championship a particularly big deal 30 odd years ago opossum born from New Zealand was instrumental in the formation of this push towards rally domination just like the ej20 engines used in early Liberty legacies and W X's STI engines were modified with forged pistons bigger turbos fancy heads but were power limited to 206 kilowatts at the engine as per the gentlemen's agreement of the time I finally did it I finally got aboard the WRX train I've had Subarus for ages for my whole driving career but never a WRX I always stayed away from them because they all felt inferior compared to this one which is special because it's two dogs that cost 1 million dollars is not the specialist as some people will quickly point out this is the second most special one over there okay so the specialist one that I made was a 22 B which is only about 400 of it was in the entire world yeah wide-body 2.2 liter engine and this is a two-door STI which there was only 400 in Australia but most from the crashed or they've been rated into a bank is that correct the good number of yeah would have had that kind of faith but yeah only 399 of these made it into Australia there are others worldwide and different sort of versions of this but these are a bit special in Australia it looks really good like it actually looks really good and this is what mid-late 90 this is a built in the end of 1998 so I think that works at a 99 it's had a pretty good life it's a two owner car now the third owner and it was in the same hands for like the last sort of 18 years driven to the shops everyday there's this shopping trolley dings all the way up it but underneath that everything is really nice tight works well no problems with at all everything is just really good so I thought a rather an honest car that has that then get something that looks perfect but it's been wrapped around five trees or poles or rim radius which is basically every other kinda I got that I'll be showing you later sure so what's interesting about this it's a 2 litre it's a good at AJ 207 in it which is what we my mum's car it's the STI version of that it's got some nice heads on it compared to a normal WRX it's got the nice brake setup it's got a different ratio in the gearbox but I mean they're not that much different from a normal WRX there's a few nice things about it but it was sold as this is an STI this is the special version already released them for a very short amount of time and they sold out pretty quick I like the Reimann wing on it have you seen the photos of people sitting here eating their noodles yeah I'm gonna sit here and sit there but I think it actually looks really good like this kind of car like usually something that big I go I don't know man I don't know if that looks good on your Civic but on this car I think it looks really good it's the most fun a racer eco hero now you could argue that an Evo 9 is more race free but firstly I've never owned one but I had a dream once of ideas and that sort of was more aggressive and more stancy and more everything but this sort of has something about it and there's something about the way they drive which you just have to drive to experience so I suggest we drive it feels pretty good huh feels great I mean everybody knows I'm a fan of WRX is yeah and this is stock is that right it's got like an exhaust but other than that it's a zero and exhaust doesn't have a tune or anything as I understand it this is the second motor which is also not uncommon for a WRX you have this era because they did a lot of them just went pop and they've got a reputation for being unreliable for that reason but they're also thrashed the guts that's rushed out of them yeah for years and years and years more than even a Yaris with a big-block yeah ok it feels so tight for such an old car though like there are no rattles there's nothing vibrating there's nothing crazy about it it just feels really good it feels good now it's got lowered springs in it they're lower than I would go I would definitely lower it but not as much and the reason I do that I like how it looks like it looks cool but it's just got that time in scrub eNOS yeah that's not what you want from a car that was designed initially to be a rally car yeah you want to jumping off stuff yeah I do so I'll have that feeling about it you can just sort of go anywhere so it's a bit low for my liking but in terms of how it drives I mean it's so tight it's tight but are you uncomfortable I'm not uncomfortable at all no it's it like feels sort of sniffy and just alright see I was about to say IRA can we just smash out a mega hot lap but I don't think I should well it's lifting up your tyres like that would I mean I'd put Springs it knew if I had the time I was just gone smash them springs early which is yeah definitely yes what needs to happen let's curative it Martin let's feel it go if the killer draw it revs it picks up nicely like it's not ah like that's pretty good an STI breaks yeah it probably needs some more aggressive packaging it really if you go doing this kind of stuff but it just sits exactly where you want it's got a good dips in it it's got a good box in it like it's it's made for doing this yes this is its purpose and you can make them really fast if you are if you pick the right recipe but they're a good thing I really like it back in the day I'd never really driven one of these but when I had my 180sx there was a lot of kind of our rivalry between like the nisshin group and the subaru group this was kind of the ultimate version of what like subaru nerds would always talk about these two-door STRs I never really thought anything about it because I prefer to you know I and listen that smelt of bomb smoke sweat and soy sauce but this he doesn't have any weed smells at all what drove it I love driving mom think you make this very kind now we may be about to experience the absolute worst thing about W which is me driving them using the gearbox like a mission driver and breaking stuff there's that but no it's it's worse than that this has a car alarm system because these were these were hot items and they got stolen a lot that's what the police started using these those boys guard just probably now thinks that I just got pulled out of the car and you stole it so it may cut out alright okay it's got an alarm system where every other time you start you've got a punch in a code but that doesn't always work yeah it's like it's going in the bin Oh guys it's so frustrating to actually live within a lot of people's hair you know you get stuck at the worst possible time is that the only corner we're gonna scrub on back there I think turning that way is worse because the bumper bar looks like a ton of heat or something okay I don't know like I said it's not perfect being get into it it's only scrubbing that's gonna hurt it I so near the start line okay okay I'm just just for science I'm just gonna say only for science sometimes you gotta see if you can go quicker than yaris Hilton then as long as you're not really going to WX you know I'm sorry tell me when three two one go Pau it's not limited much sorry that's clutch listen driver feels good butter feels really good that's all scrub that's all scrubs I'm not gonna do it man you got to go faster than Yaris Hilton I'm not gonna you can do it it's gonna rip your bumper off it's not really Go Go Go you can still do this I can't still do it but you that but you have to go that hundred new corner the cars dead if I I stopped oh it thinks we've got hijacked okay it thinks we got hijacked it's dead it's not dead like broken dead he thinks we've got hijacked I guarantee it I guarantee it cuz this little stupid keypad thing this is the thing I freaking hate about this vehicle so far that's gonna go in the bin so in okay so now we've got to open it if we're getting out of it open the door open the door yep yeah you put that key in okay I'll have to check the code because I've forgotten it already write it down so this this is if they say you're like a real hurry to go meet up with someone you're like oh my god this is gonna be the best night ever and not not in your W actually not okay no you're still waiting we put it on code I Drive does my door have to be closed I don't know okay actually don't know the answer to that and now try and turn the key yep so you got nothing so you put our coding nope try again nah nothing got Keith turn the key on turn okay okay so maybe my door has to be closed maybe ka now K's on take the key out completely and try it again turn it no nothing you think so you got hijacked okay you cannot get out at a track and let your friend drive your car okay maybe this is a good time to go and show you my new car considering this doesn't work so my car's not gonna have this problem do you wanna go see much happened it's literally between picking this up and it being at this track this has happened about five times and every time was inconvenient but that's means that's happened five times since yesterday exactly cuz every like third time driving driving logzilla every time you started this happens I can try to get in it should we go get my car guess I look spirit spirited drop thank you is coming out look straight away Thank You Superman Marty calm bones wow that's really disappointing man what an ughhow good is that feeling when you pick up a new car for the first time or even an old nugget Martin and or nugget particularly if it's a kind of old nugget that you've always had in the back your head man I would love to experience that car in that car modify that car do something cool with it you know what I've never owned one of these before in my the kind of nugget that you had these dreams if I have well check it out everybody it's Marty's new two-door STI for subaru fans everywhere at 2-door coupe is the Holy Grail the ultimate of these being the 22 B which is the rarest and while the Subaru ever made this is its closest relative also somewhat rare these were released by Subaru in Australia in 1998 they're special here as we didn't get coupes in any other form as some other countries did STI stands for Subaru Technica international which was established to enter the World Rally Championship a particularly big deal 30 odd years ago opossum born from New Zealand was instrumental in the formation of this push towards rally domination just like the ej20 engines used in early Liberty legacies and W X's STI engines were modified with forged pistons bigger turbos fancy heads but were power limited to 206 kilowatts at the engine as per the gentlemen's agreement of the time I finally did it I finally got aboard the WRX train I've had Subarus for ages for my whole driving career but never a WRX I always stayed away from them because they all felt inferior compared to this one which is special because it's two dogs that cost 1 million dollars is not the specialist as some people will quickly point out this is the second most special one over there okay so the specialist one that I made was a 22 B which is only about 400 of it was in the entire world yeah wide-body 2.2 liter engine and this is a two-door STI which there was only 400 in Australia but most from the crashed or they've been rated into a bank is that correct the good number of yeah would have had that kind of faith but yeah only 399 of these made it into Australia there are others worldwide and different sort of versions of this but these are a bit special in Australia it looks really good like it actually looks really good and this is what mid-late 90 this is a built in the end of 1998 so I think that works at a 99 it's had a pretty good life it's a two owner car now the third owner and it was in the same hands for like the last sort of 18 years driven to the shops everyday there's this shopping trolley dings all the way up it but underneath that everything is really nice tight works well no problems with at all everything is just really good so I thought a rather an honest car that has that then get something that looks perfect but it's been wrapped around five trees or poles or rim radius which is basically every other kinda I got that I'll be showing you later sure so what's interesting about this it's a 2 litre it's a good at AJ 207 in it which is what we my mum's car it's the STI version of that it's got some nice heads on it compared to a normal WRX it's got the nice brake setup it's got a different ratio in the gearbox but I mean they're not that much different from a normal WRX there's a few nice things about it but it was sold as this is an STI this is the special version already released them for a very short amount of time and they sold out pretty quick I like the Reimann wing on it have you seen the photos of people sitting here eating their noodles yeah I'm gonna sit here and sit there but I think it actually looks really good like this kind of car like usually something that big I go I don't know man I don't know if that looks good on your Civic but on this car I think it looks really good it's the most fun a racer eco hero now you could argue that an Evo 9 is more race free but firstly I've never owned one but I had a dream once of ideas and that sort of was more aggressive and more stancy and more everything but this sort of has something about it and there's something about the way they drive which you just have to drive to experience so I suggest we drive it feels pretty good huh feels great I mean everybody knows I'm a fan of WRX is yeah and this is stock is that right it's got like an exhaust but other than that it's a zero and exhaust doesn't have a tune or anything as I understand it this is the second motor which is also not uncommon for a WRX you have this era because they did a lot of them just went pop and they've got a reputation for being unreliable for that reason but they're also thrashed the guts that's rushed out of them yeah for years and years and years more than even a Yaris with a big-block yeah ok it feels so tight for such an old car though like there are no rattles there's nothing vibrating there's nothing crazy about it it just feels really good it feels good now it's got lowered springs in it they're lower than I would go I would definitely lower it but not as much and the reason I do that I like how it looks like it looks cool but it's just got that time in scrub eNOS yeah that's not what you want from a car that was designed initially to be a rally car yeah you want to jumping off stuff yeah I do so I'll have that feeling about it you can just sort of go anywhere so it's a bit low for my liking but in terms of how it drives I mean it's so tight it's tight but are you uncomfortable I'm not uncomfortable at all no it's it like feels sort of sniffy and just alright see I was about to say IRA can we just smash out a mega hot lap but I don't think I should well it's lifting up your tyres like that would I mean I'd put Springs it knew if I had the time I was just gone smash them springs early which is yeah definitely yes what needs to happen let's curative it Martin let's feel it go if the killer draw it revs it picks up nicely like it's not ah like that's pretty good an STI breaks yeah it probably needs some more aggressive packaging it really if you go doing this kind of stuff but it just sits exactly where you want it's got a good dips in it it's got a good box in it like it's it's made for doing this yes this is its purpose and you can make them really fast if you are if you pick the right recipe but they're a good thing I really like it back in the day I'd never really driven one of these but when I had my 180sx there was a lot of kind of our rivalry between like the nisshin group and the subaru group this was kind of the ultimate version of what like subaru nerds would always talk about these two-door STRs I never really thought anything about it because I prefer to you know I and listen that smelt of bomb smoke sweat and soy sauce but this he doesn't have any weed smells at all what drove it I love driving mom think you make this very kind now we may be about to experience the absolute worst thing about W which is me driving them using the gearbox like a mission driver and breaking stuff there's that but no it's it's worse than that this has a car alarm system because these were these were hot items and they got stolen a lot that's what the police started using these those boys guard just probably now thinks that I just got pulled out of the car and you stole it so it may cut out alright okay it's got an alarm system where every other time you start you've got a punch in a code but that doesn't always work yeah it's like it's going in the bin Oh guys it's so frustrating to actually live within a lot of people's hair you know you get stuck at the worst possible time is that the only corner we're gonna scrub on back there I think turning that way is worse because the bumper bar looks like a ton of heat or something okay I don't know like I said it's not perfect being get into it it's only scrubbing that's gonna hurt it I so near the start line okay okay I'm just just for science I'm just gonna say only for science sometimes you gotta see if you can go quicker than yaris Hilton then as long as you're not really going to WX you know I'm sorry tell me when three two one go Pau it's not limited much sorry that's clutch listen driver feels good butter feels really good that's all scrub that's all scrubs I'm not gonna do it man you got to go faster than Yaris Hilton I'm not gonna you can do it it's gonna rip your bumper off it's not really Go Go Go you can still do this I can't still do it but you that but you have to go that hundred new corner the cars dead if I I stopped oh it thinks we've got hijacked okay it thinks we got hijacked it's dead it's not dead like broken dead he thinks we've got hijacked I guarantee it I guarantee it cuz this little stupid keypad thing this is the thing I freaking hate about this vehicle so far that's gonna go in the bin so in okay so now we've got to open it if we're getting out of it open the door open the door yep yeah you put that key in okay I'll have to check the code because I've forgotten it already write it down so this this is if they say you're like a real hurry to go meet up with someone you're like oh my god this is gonna be the best night ever and not not in your W actually not okay no you're still waiting we put it on code I Drive does my door have to be closed I don't know okay actually don't know the answer to that and now try and turn the key yep so you got nothing so you put our coding nope try again nah nothing got Keith turn the key on turn okay okay so maybe my door has to be closed maybe ka now K's on take the key out completely and try it again turn it no nothing you think so you got hijacked okay you cannot get out at a track and let your friend drive your car okay maybe this is a good time to go and show you my new car considering this doesn't work so my car's not gonna have this problem do you wanna go see much happened it's literally between picking this up and it being at this track this has happened about five times and every time was inconvenient but that's means that's happened five times since yesterday exactly cuz every like third time driving driving logzilla every time you started this happens I can try to get in it should we go get my car guess I look spirit spirited drop thank you is coming out look straight away Thank You Superman Marty calm bones wow that's really disappointing man what an ugh\n"