Subaru recently invited us to Japan to drive their latest hot hatch - the RHD JDM-spec, WRX STI. Wow, that's a lot of three-letter acronyms. You can be sure, though, that the words coming out of our ...

Since rolling onto North American streets in 2002, Subaru´s Impreza WRX has earned its rep as a relatively affordable high-performance automobile. It was so well received here that the following year ...

The next-generation Subaru WRX STI finally made its debut at the 2026 Tokyo Auto Salon. It’s presented as a concept, but what ...

OUR TAKE: While some people bemoan the fact that Subaru made the STI a hatchback, you can at least take comfort in knowing that the decision was for performance reasons. That extra rigidity from the ...

Subaru WRX STi 2008-2010 Road Test 03:49 The STi is very fast, has lots of grip, and the hatchback adds utility. Unfortunately the handling doesn’t live up to the car’s potential.

How does a kid racer mature without growing up? In the case of the Subaru Impreza WRX, it loses the fender flares and becomes a hot hatch, that Euroesque ideal of the small, fast, cheap car. And it ...

Matt Nelson is an automotive journalist with nearly a decade of experience in all things cars. He's spent years working at dealerships in sales, finance, and service. He's since traded in his pens and ...

The WRX STI nameplate, once the heart of Subaru’s performance identity, has been dormant long enough to feel like a relic. Now a wave of teasers, concepts, and dealer chatter suggests the ...

The standard new generation evolution usually goes like this: bigger, roomier, longer, wider. For some models, it's not such a big deal to go fiddling with the specs, on certain cars it's even a ...

Once upon a time, a long time ago, there were three little piglets, sorry, Japanese automakers, that loved to play both on tarmac and in the dirt, so they went racing and found out about WRC. The ...

Like Jamaica's Olympic sprinters, the all-new 2008 Subaru Impreza WRX STI is deadly fast. But unlike fastest man in the world Usain Bolt, the redesigned STI is, for a legendary boy racer, almost ...