2010 Impreza diesel UK

Subaru won an engine-of-the-year award or similar when they introduced the boxer diesel.

I wonder if it is holding up well?

I hope it doesn't fall in to the 'overdeveloped under engineered' category that many modern diesels seem to be in with less than impressive reliability being the main problem with many makes. In Europe diesel car sales are very high so the percentage of problems is considerable compared to petrol cars. It certainly drove well and I hope it sells loads for them.

-C- Anything is possible if you don't know what you're talking about

the reason being?

How much does the diesel impresa bob, weave, squat and dive compared to the wrx? (assuming your springs/shocks are stock)

What part of 'in all respects' isn't clear? Why would a diesel version handle badly? The handling is excellent...and I did sling it around a tad to check, ditto the brakes. I've never driven a Subaru that bobs, weaves and dives let alone squats. Is there one?

Sure, Outback Sport does: the springs are very soft. The rear sway bar is outright pathetic even compared to the soft 17mm bar on WRX sedan (wrx wagon has a sucker sway bar i think). I suspect other stilted versions or what used to be Legacy before a recent fork do bob weave squat under accel and dive under braking also. That's why there are GT and STI strains in the US market, kapisch? Frankly this all becomes moot point as yen gets stronger and stronger

At some point it was ridiculous enough around here where newmazda 3 price tag exceeded that of the new barebones bmw 318 (yes, that is still sold outside the US of A)

Did I mention that bmw 118i (2 liter 4 banger) starts under 20k USD around here?