Making its admission alongside Subaru’s 2010 WRX STI Special Edition at the L.A. auto appearance is the new WRX Limited—the yang to the yin, if you will—aimed at WRX barter who appetite to be adequate while bombing forth their admired aback roads. Indeed, demography the 2.5-liter turbo-four up on its 265-hp action becomes a abundant nicer hypothesis while ensconced in a covering interior, basking in the sunlight cloudburst in through the bottle sunroof and alert to the Black Keys, Beethoven, or what accept you on the accepted accessory radio.
Yes, this is a altered chump altogether than those in the determined STI group. The Limited client is a acute thrill-seeker who finds the already well-equipped WRX Premium not able enough, and one who can acquisition a few added sawbucks to awning the Limited’s amount hike, which acceptable will put it in the low-$30K range. The WRX Premium auto costs $28,190; add 500 bucks for the five-door.
Now, that’s a agglomeration of money for an Impreza that isn’t an STI, abnormally because its aggressive set includes added abridged rockets like the VW GTI and Mazdaspeed 3, both of which accept been 10Best winners and both of which can be had with covering seats and sat radio for beneath money, although neither has all-wheel drive. (Of course, whatever the trim, the approved WRX will beat its pricier STI sibling—we’ve clocked the abject Rex to 60 mph as bound as 4.7 seconds; the STI needs at atomic 5.0.) And as for the WRX’s arch-nemesis, the $28,310 Mitsubishi Lancer Ralliart, well, it offers neither a moonroof nor covering seats. So it looks like for the time being, Subaru will accept this sliver of a sliver of the sport-compact bazaar all to itself.
