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Subaru wants us to believe that they've been able to put the performance
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of a WRX into what's essentially a practical family wagon well we're about
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to see if they did it or not we're up here on the beautiful central coast of
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New South Wales to visit Central Coast Subaru today we're picking up the
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2018 Subaru levorg STI two liter and we're going to take it
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for a drive through the country so I didn't give you our review
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entering into the cabin you can see that it's typical Subaru with all the added
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comforts of the STI range the leather seats hug you frame nicely and
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everything is positioned thoughtfully and ergonomically and there's plenty of
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room in the backseat for friends family and kids
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first thing I know as we take up up the hill it's quite steep and there is so
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much power really gets up a boogies once that turbo spools up there is a
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slight turbo lag and the only other thing that feels unusual is the CVT now
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I'm not really accustomed to CVT's
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but they feel a little bit like an elastic band winding up
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before they're loose and they take off
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from my understanding the Levorg that does not come in a manual gearbox it
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only comes this CVT automatic gearbox which obviously makes life a lot easier
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when you're driving around especially in urban areas and being targeted at these
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family market it's probably just fine I'm a manual gear box lover and before I
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could put a manual gearbox into this car I would love to have it sitting in my garage
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with my other cars so let's talk about power we're in the
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2-liter STI model so we've got a 197 kilowatts from memory
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350 Nm of torque it's running through a symmetrical
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all-wheel-drive system so probably one of the most intelligent all-wheel drive
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systems of all the cars available these days and and particularly if you're
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running it snow weather and icy weather this is the car that you need
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well this is the style of car you need being a wagon there's so much space in the
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back obviously you put a set of racks on here and a capsule and you can bring a
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whole family and all this ski gear to the snow that's coming in a snow season
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right now now being the 2 liter engine the Nm of torque the torque
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comes on a little bit higher revs than the 1.6 liter it comes on at around
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about two and a half thousand friends instead of 1800 revs just enough to be
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noticeable but certainly the turbo lag is not something that you need to worry
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about at all there's plenty of hope the moment they put your foot down
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it's got a nice little turbo whistle and in fact let's switch out of well let's
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switch the CVT into the automatic manual mode and now we can use the paddle
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shifters to change gears all right now they're on let's see how responsive it
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is using paddle shifters
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much more responsive using the paddle shifters there's no doubt about it however you
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can still feel that an elastic band slingshots style of gearbox the CVT is
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yes the paddle shifters make it better no they don't make it like
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this DSG or a manual gearbox but still a beautiful car nonetheless
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one thing about the Levorg that I really love the amount of camera it's got every
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Every car has reverse cameras these days well if they don't buy shoes but this car has
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got the camera out of the passenger side mirror so when you're reversing into a parking
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spot you can actually see where the gutter and where your wheels are so you dont
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scratch your rims looking at the camera right now that's
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coming out from an underneath the bonnet so you're looking at the road level from
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underneath the bonnet looking ahead I don't know the exact reasoning for
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that I can only assume that if you're parking forward towards a gutter then you can
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actually see where to stop but it is or it can be activated while you're driving
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as well and I can see that right now very cool
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I think Subarus really nailed it with this car this is the latest and greatest
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of course and and it is the top of the range for the WRX style model but
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everything so comfortable you could sit in here for hours and days and it's
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tour in it really comfortably you can take it to the track and have an
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absolute rip-roaring time around the track and you can drive it every day
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with these and comfort with it out without the stress I've had some
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performance cars here so certainly this is the worst part of the day
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I have to take this car back to Central Coast Subaru now I love this car and it gives
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you literally gives you the best gives you space it gives you sexiness it gives
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you performance and it's just a very very practical but fast car I'd like to
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take the opportunity to thank Central Coast Subaru for looking after me today
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even minutes the LevorgSTI and letting me take it for the day and give it a really
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nice solid review I don't want to give it back
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in fact Subaru if you don't see me in the next hour
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so yep I can quite confidently say this is a WRX in a wagon if you're in the
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market for a sports wagon so you can happily take on the tracks that you can
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happily be a little bit of a hoon there reliving your childhood but you can
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easily put the kids in the back and all of the shopping go to Subaru check this
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out take a Levorg for a drive and in particular the STI two liter is what I
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drove today so thanks again for watching throttle down under folks and I will see
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you on the next video
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