📰 Auto News Subaru Impreza WRX STI Special Edition is sportier, less expensive

[Bru]

Sounds like a good deal to me Now the STi is less expensive than the Evo X.

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/12/03/subaru-impreza-wrx-sti-special-edition-los-angeles-pricing/

[Autoblog]

So often, the tag of "Special Edition" comes with a not-so-special price increase. Fortunately for Subaru fans, the newly-introduced Impreza WRX STI Special Edition is actually less costly. At $32,995 it's actually $2,000 cheaper than the base price of the standard STI.

Of course, buyers of the Special Edition will have to go without certain features, namely HID headlights, premium audio, and automatic climate control. It's not just a de-contented package, though, as the car also comes with the suspension from the spec C model in Japan that includes a thicker rear stabilizer bar, stiffer bushings and stiffer springs.

Initially, each car will be painted in Aspen white with the charcoal-colored 14-spoke wheels also cribbed from the spec C. Just 125 examples will be built in the first quarter of 2010, although Subaru says that more will be available later in the year in additional colors. High-res gallery below, pricing press release available after the jump.

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[Mook]

growing on me very very very much. love white

 

[Bru]

White does look good. Hides some of the hatch's fugliness

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

So it's similar to the tr back in 06-07? 6 speed?

Sounds like a less sloppy and heavy Sti. I'm in.

 

[The Broken Regal]

tint the windows and that car is niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice

 

[Handsome Jesus]

Gut the thing, throw a cage in it and tint the windows.

commence beating on it till it breaks. fix and repeat.

Definitely would rock that.

 

[Bru]

With the dark wheels it looks much more basic. I'm digging it. I thought they removed some trim or stickers but, nope, just the different rims.

 

[Yaj Yak]

thats fucking awesome.

 

[Smokinhot]

that does look good

 

[TransHed]

Whats the reasoning that its a hatch-only trim?

 

[Mook]

i think due in part to wrc....all the cars were hatches

 

[CamaroSS]

still cant overlook the hatch, just not my thing.

 

[Runtz52]

white...hatchback...im in.

 

[IDAFC21]

i think due in part to wrc....all the cars were hatches

yah. pretty much. Ive been saying for years subaru needed a hatch to be competitive in the wrc once again....so they finally make one...and then what do they do? pull out of the sport immediately!

i do like that white tho.

 

[Prevent]

Subaru needs to stop being pussies and up the HP to 350hp or 400 alreayd, for fucks sake. get rid of the cast pistons as well.

They make the cylinder walls and sleeves thicker, but keep cast pistons ? really ?

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

Well somethings gotta make them unreliable. Why do you think they sell so many shortblock

 

[DanJ]

Prevent in the house

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

Traitor prevent.

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

I gotta say, that looks pretty fucking sexy in white. I want to do the wheels on my truck in that color in the springtime.

 

[UWISHU1]

growing on me very very very much. love white

I wouldn't mind having one