The Subaru WRX tS and the Toyota GR Corolla are two AWD sport compacts and great road-ready rally cars. How do they compare?

Yet when Subaru pulled the plug on its World Rally Championship operations in 2008, the Impreza and its WRX successors lost ... It’s a similar story with the suspension, with a strut layout ...

The redesigned WRX sticks close to the rally car-inspired formula it established 20 years ago, giving drivers a four-door sedan with a powerful turbocharged engine, road-hugging suspension ...

Such was the clamour from those same rally ... the 2011 WRX STI is better to drive than its predecessor. The big news under both body-styles is that the car gets new ‘Spec C’ suspension ...