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[quote name='bedabi' date='Nov 18 2007, 11:38 AM' post='775900']
Some more reviews about the new suspension.

From http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Drive...rticleId=123381

The more you play around with the traction control systems and engine mapping, the more you will appreciate what Subaru has done with the car's handling. It's simply superb. Turn in and the STI stays flatter in the corners with less body roll than ever before, as all four 245/40R18 Bridgestone Potenza RE050A tires work hard to retain maximum grip. Chief engineer Mori reminds us that new double wishbones up the back suppress roll when compared to the ousted struts.

After a few hot laps around Fuji, we know exactly what he means. The car corners sharper, understeers less at the limit, and feels more planted going into and coming out of corners.

From http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/first_drive.p...1237&page=6

The ride has improved and body control is still tight, while traction and grip remain near-unbreakable; if you keep your nerve and keep your foot on the gas, the Impreza will pull itself through almost anything.

From http://www.automobilemag.com/reviews/subar..._jdm/index.html

But where the new Rex is soft and spongy, the STI stays true to its roots. Because we drove the new STI only around the ultrasmooth Fuji racetrack, we can't yet provide any information on ride quality, but the WRX's lack of roll stiffness was definitely absent. Not that body roll wasn't present, but it wasn't at Camry levels like it is in the WRX.The STI is a very quick car around a race course. If your right foot is anywhere near the gas pedal, understeer is what you'll get, but the rear end comes alive in high-speed corners if you ask it to.

From http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/hatchb...aru_wrx_sti_jdm

So how does it perform? In most ways better than the second-generation car, though it may not immediately seem that way... But rest assured, the new car certainly should perform as well as or better than the old one, especially in the handling department.

Generally speaking, the WRX STI still feels like it is essentially a nose-heavy understeerer, but miracles of modern mechanical engineering allow the car to track the fast line at Fuji like a slot-car. The fat tires, loaded nose, and varying front-axle torque all conspire to stifle steering feel, and it's occasionally tricky to determine what percentage of the car's available grip has been probed at any given point in a curve. But when you realize you're past the limit, a quick lift off the throttle or brush of the brakes generally tucks the car back into line. It's an incredibly forgiving chassis that'll require some extremely ham-fisted piloting to throw away on a racetrack. Further evidence of its neutral and forgiving nature: Two busloads of international journalists from every corner of the WRX empire completed their four or five lapping sessions in six cars without ever leaving the track, and none of the tires showed excessive shoulder wear or seemed desperately in need of changing.

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