What does it take to get a stock-looking WRX to bust the quarter mile in a Bugatti-buggering 10 seconds? Martin Donnon of SA’s Willall Racing has an idea, since that is a feat he and his team have pulled off. The Subaru WRX STI ’25BB’ as it’s called – a throwback to […]
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2017 Subaru WRX S-Edition now on sale in Australia
A new special edition 2017 Subaru WRX has now gone on sale in Australia, called the S-Edition. It features various STI highlights. For a $2350 outlay over and above the WRX Premium (from $45,140), you get a handful of goodies and some black painted BBS alloys. There is an assortment […]
Video: Subaru WRX drives down an Olympic bobsled run
Subaru and Jamaica don’t really have much in common or at least they didn’t until Subaru decided to shove the Isle of Man TT record-setting WRX down a bobsled course for some cool runnings. Modifications to the already hardcore Rex include snow tyres with 400 studs, with driver Mark Higgins […]
Subaru prepares STI packages for 2017 Tokyo Auto Salon
Subaru’s 2017 Tokyo Auto Salon exhibit was full of seven exhibits, ranging from tastefully understated to outrageous and race-ready, thanks to its skunkworks, Subaru Technica International (STI). Starting with the silver WRX S4 STI Sport, STI has added some lowered springs, new cross-drilled brake rotors and subtle carbon fibre extensions […]
2017-2018 Subaru WRX facelift revealed for U.S. market
Subaru USA has unveiled an updated 2017-2018 WRX and WRX STI at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, promising more performance, despite leaving power unchanged. First up, the styling. Obviously, it’s more evolutionary than revolutionary, but the numerous tweaks have amalgamated into a refreshed-looking WRX. There’s changes to […]
All-new Subaru WRX not coming until around 2020 – report
Those holding out on purchasing a Subaru WRX in the hope an all-new model may come soon might have to wait until around 2020, according to a Motoring report. Although the all-new Impreza has just landed in Australia, based on the all-new Subaru Global Platform expected to underpin the company’s […]
2016 Subaru WRX S4 tS STI announced for Japan
Subaru has released another hardcore WRX STI limited-edition variant complete with an updated chassis and a range of new parts, which, sadly, at this point is only available for the Japanese market. It’s called the WRX S4 tS, and it is arguably the ultimate version of the WRX STI ever. […]
IAG Performance builds 900kW Subaru WRX STI (video)
The Subaru WRX STI has certainly done a great job of becoming one of the legends of the performance car world, however, the latest model has been ridiculed for being slower than its predecessors. IAG Performance in the USA has come up with a solution. Taking a 2015 STI, the […]