When the newest Subaru WRX was launched again in 2022, the Japanese automaker stated there wouldn’t be a high-performance STI model within the present era.
True to its phrase, the closest Subaru has received to providing a brand new WRX STI since then is the WRX tS Spec B flagship (pictured beneath), providing a guide gearbox, Brembo brakes, adaptive dampers and different components from the model’s STI efficiency division.
Now it has launched a teaser picture of a brand new mannequin it is going to reveal in October, sending Subaru followers right into a spin as a result of it has all of the hallmarks of both an all-new WRX, or a higher-performance model of the present WRX or Levorg (WRX Sportswagon).
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Whereas Subaru didn’t identify the automobile, a single, deliberately washed-out picture revealed by the model reveals its front-end styling.
Aggressive bodywork can clearly be seen within the teaser picture, together with a chunky entrance bumper with low-to-the-ground splitter and aspect skirts.
There’s additionally a trademark WRX central bonnet scoop and, wanting additional, closely blistered wheel-arches that counsel bigger wheels and greater brakes.
However whereas different WRX hallmarks – together with a turbocharged boxer engine and all-wheel drive – are virtually a given, the grille seems to be extra just like the previous-generation WRX’s and even the Levorg’s.
Finest Automotive Net reported the automaker stated on the announcement – held at Mount Fuji Raceway in Japan – the automobile proven within the picture will probably be “environmentally pleasant” and can usher in “a brand new era with out shedding its Subaru character”.
Subaru confirmed it’s engaged on a horizontally opposed (‘boxer’) inside combustion engine which is suitable with ‘E20’ carbon-neutral gas.
The automaker additionally stated hybrid and plug-in hybrid (PHEV) variations of the brand new engine are in growth, which suggests the brand new WRX could possibly be given a hybrid push to satisfy emissions whereas providing the potential demanded of a high-performance flagship.
Japan at present plans to ban sale of latest automobiles powered solely by inside combustion engines (ICE) by 2035 however will allow hybrid automobiles alongside battery-electric fashions.
A part of the core WRX make-up is all-wheel drive, which the automaker stated it is usually engaged on for the brand new mannequin with information gained in motor sport.
Subaru competes within the 2025 Tremendous Taikyu Collection in Japan as Group SDA Engineering with the intention of growing its street automobile fashions, with Subaru workers as its drivers.
The automobile will probably be unveiled on the 2025 Japan Mobility Present scheduled to begin on October 30, 2025.
