May 12, 2025

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The gasoline-powered Subaru WRX STI is dead

The gasoline-powered Subaru WRX STI is dead

Subaru introduced late Friday that it has ceased advancement of the inside-combustion engine for its WRX STI — the brand’s worldwide halo general performance product. Subaru’s announcement, which follows beneath in its entirety, leaves the door open for an electrified model. 

As the automotive market proceeds to move in direction of electrification, Subaru is targeted on how our potential sports and overall performance cars and trucks ought to evolve to fulfill the requires of the changing marketplace and the regulations and requirements for greenhouse gasses (GHG), zero emissions autos (ZEV), and Company Typical Gasoline Economy (CAFE). 

 

As part of that hard work, Subaru Company is exploring options for the future era Subaru WRX STI, which include electrification. In the meantime, a following technology internal combustion engine WRX STI will not be created dependent on the new WRX system.  

 

The Subaru WRX STI and the STI manufacturer stand for the zenith of Subaru’s performance motor vehicles exemplifying Subaru’s exclusive DNA and rally heritage. As we search to the long term, we also seem ahead to incorporating the essence of STI into our subsequent generation of cars.

This is of course undesirable news for Subaru fans who experienced their hearts established on an STI dependent on the company’s updated sport compact, but past that, it leaves these who wished a a lot more decked-out WRX with a guide transmission in the lurch, as the assortment-topping WRX GT remains computerized-only, at the very least for now. 

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