2023 Subaru Impreza Reviews, Pricing & Specs

The 2023 Subaru Impreza is available as a hatchback or a sedan and comes in four trims: Base, Premium, Sport, and Limited.

Compact cars offer reliable, safe, and economical transportation without forcing you to compromise to fit a budget. But few compact cars can match the value found in the standard all-wheel drive (AWD) provided by the 2023 Subaru Impreza. The Impreza is available as a sedan, with 12.3 cubic feet of trunk space, or in a five-door hatchback configuration with 55.3 cubic feet of cargo space when the rear seats are folded. With the rear seats in use, the Impreza still offers 20.5 cubic feet of cargo space.

Trims for the 2023 Impreza are Base, Premium, Sport, and Limited. Standard equipment on the Base trim includes remote keyless entry, power doors and locks, Bluetooth connectivity, a tire pressure monitoring system, and a 6.5-inch touchscreen infotainment system with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. The Base five-door model includes roof rails and cargo tie-downs.

Moving up to the Premium trim adds heated front seats, a windshield wiper de-icer, 16-inch alloy wheels, fog lights, two rear-seat USB ports, and automatic climate control. The Impreza Sport includes an 8-inch touchscreen, push-button start, leather-wrapped steering wheel, unique design elements, Sport-specific 18-inch wheels, torque vectoring steering, and a sport-tuned suspension.

The range-topping Limited comes exclusively as a hatchback, and it adds leather upholstery, a six-way power-adjustable driver’s seat, adaptive LED headlights, and faux carbon fiber interior trim. Features such as a power moonroof and an eight-speaker Harman Kardon premium stereo system are optional as part of an available package.

All trims of the Impreza come equipped with a 2.0-liter horizontally opposed “Boxer” flat-four engine. It makes 152 horsepower and just 145 pound-feet of torque. Power is routed through either a five-speed manual or continuously variable transmission (CVT) to Subaru’s Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive.

The most efficient version of the 2023 Impreza is the sedan with the CVT. It returns an EPA-estimated 28 mpg city, 36 highway, and 32 combined. The least efficient option is the five-door Impreza Sport with the manual transmission, which returns 22 mpg city, 30 highway, and 25 combined.

If you go for the CVT over the manual transmission, the Impreza comes standard with Subaru’s EyeSight suite of advanced driver-assistance systems. This includes forward-collision warning, forward and reverse automatic braking, lane-departure warning, and adaptive cruise control. Blind-spot monitoring, adaptive cruise control, and rear cross-path detection are all optional or included on higher trims.

Base MSRP for the 2023 Subaru Impreza is $19,795 for the sedan, while the hatchback starts at $20,295. The Premium sedan starts at $23,195 and the Premium hatch at $23,695. The Impreza Sport costs $23,995 for the hatchback (which only comes with the CVT) and $24,595 for the sedan (and its standard manual transmission). The range-topping Impreza Limited starts at $27,395 and is only available as the five-door hatchback. The Subaru Impreza is backed by a five-year/60,000-mile powertrain warranty.