TR actually stands for Track Ready in this iteration. They changed the meaning. No, I wouldn't pay $43k for this thing lol

Damn zack almost 150k subs 😀😀👍👍🙏🙏

You hit every nail on the head on the TR points and what a Tuner is looking for. Cheapest/least options, since we're gonna spend 1000's on the tuning part of it.

I’m picking up one of these. Can someone help with a query. Can you load music onto a USB flash drive and play it ? Or does Apple CarPlay prevent this ?

worth every penny, beautiful car, love the black cladding, love the rear BRZ-ish tail lights. glad Subaru still making the WRX

I'd buy one, if it only had the side skirts of the Levorg. A crossover sedan just looks odd, specially in today's full cross over state and shooting brake market.

😍😍 cool,always love Subarus! Taillighrs are especially different.

I appreciate Subaru introducing this trim level since hardly anyone wants the CVT only GT, but is it REALLY worth the $7000 up charge from the Premium trim.

I know I'm an old curmudgeon now, but I wouldn't pay $43,000 for any car, period. I remember when a New Lexus LS 400 went for $35,000. I know, inflation and all that jazz. Play still could never bring myself to spend that kind of money on a car. Now get off my lawn!

Where I live they start at $60k and sales numbers are very low.

In 2019, I bought a brand new WRX STI Limited for $43k out the door. Base STIs were going for way less like in the high $30Ks.

I like the looks of that & I don't mind the wheel arches, I think the Subaru SUVs have that as well, so it's like a Subaru trademark.

How nice of Subaru to suggest modifying the WRX (vis a vis the TR suffix), then void your warranty for doing so.

I love the looks and the performance of this car. I test drove one back in January and it was great. I may be trading in my 2017 STI for one in 2025.

I don't like the huge key on my Wilderness. My civic has a smaller key with remote start integrated to it.

It looks like a sti wanna be, but it looks great 👍 I wish it had the sti wing..

The price is close too civic type R

Lots of good commentary, but the number of people willing to pay $30,000 for a car without a radio is probably in the single digits....

You know how sometimes we warm up to polarizing design over time? Still waiting (that rear end 🤢).

$44K for that? Crazy.

DIY STI?

Zaack... 2 circles containing 4 gauges

One simple "tune", and it will be north of 300hp that would be it into STI territory.

TR stands for track ready.

Id rather buy a nice bugeye for 5 10k

You tell about the engine performance and hp but forgot to tell us in today's environment what the mpg are.

without rebuilding the engine, is this shit still going to blow up?

An affordable, enthusiast performance car) wow the price is close too civic type R!!!

I think this is an excuse for Subaru not to revive the STi name. They did the same thing with the BRZ. At least they could have given this a bit more power to justify the price increase over the regular WRX.

I own a vb wrx and I have to strongly disagree about the shifter feel. It’s by a mile my least favorite part of the car. It crunches into gear. Feels sloppy, and is crazy loose when in first or second gear.

30k? Sure $43k hell no!

To answer that, no.

My 2018 Limited fully loaded STI with 7 dealer options was 43,995. Color (WRBP) 1. Short throw shifter 2.duracon shift knob 3.all season floor mats 4.front lip spoiler 5.both weather kits 6.led side sill STI plates 7.red led floor lights kit My Car had 6 miles on it when I picked it up in 2018, how on earth Subaru is charging the same money for a VB in 2024 is ridiculous I’d never give up my ej for a VB. GOOD LUCK Subaru moving these at that price point especially with these ridiculous interest rates.

TRACK REDY

It's not a bad car, but I could spend 43K in better places....don't ask me what, but this just doesn't have enough meat on the bone to make me hungry or get up and get it. Putting brembos and recaros on a Toyota Corolla isn't gonna turn any heads....

19s on a tuner ready car. Mistake.

An affordable, enthusiast performance car is really tough to pull off. Mazda Miata That’s it. That’s the entire list. Get a base manual Miata, and go ham with the money you just saved.

Who keeps buying crackeroni pizza at Subaru HQ?

Looks like one of subarus ugly era cars, they go through those phases from time to time and then they come out with absolute banger desgins

Tuner ready? So after you drop 45k on it, the people buying these are expected to drop more money on pointless 'upgrades'? I'll never understand the tuner appeal, its just eeking out more horsepower to make sure the driver's ego is nice and inflated. I'm absolutely biased against them because there's two types of drivers that I see repeatedly pass double-yellows, tailgate, and drive recklessly - 18-25 year olds in ricers/tuners and practically anybody in a big jacked-up truck.

Subaru doesn't really want to be in the performance market any more. They'd rather focus on the outdoorsy, light off-road crowd. Still, at least they're still making the WRX even if they did try to make it look like an SUV. Subaru should put the WRX's powertrain in the Crosstrek. If they won't give us a WRX hatchback, they can at least make some sort of ultimate Crosstrek.

Civic type R over this. But the Subaru will get you through winter snow very comfortably. If I had one of these I would raise it 1 inch and put All Terrains have it like a rally car setup. It's a nice looking car.

Subaru is smokin ass

Even as a subaru fan boy, with the brembos, Recaros, 6 speed, it still isnt worth 40k+ (and is ugly)

Meh.

High price for a ugly ass car I own a blobeye STI really only bought it bc they killed off the sti prices are starting to get crazy especially for interior crap

Seriously 😳 not worth the money putting a STI shift knob in a WRX does not make it a STI , upgraded brakes was a must , the seats is nice , upgrading the suspension, good but it has still the same engine, transmission and clutch, I thought the TR was going to be the new STI but it is not, I have a 2022 Premium WRX completely modified and tuned, which I am currently trading in for a actual STI , because Subaru is not going to make the STI , and I can actually get a good STI cheaper than a wannabe $43,000 is completely crazy for a new WRX

Anything over 38k for a wrx is not worth it. Above 38k, you are closing in on another class of cars that outclass the wrx. So, the wrx TR is, in fact, not worth the price

Not for 44k, if that was sold for 25k, u put 10-15k then u got something. Honestly that needs 2 b the future of cars. No more mass production, u pick out everything in a catalog and have the manuf make it by the order. I would pay 50-60-70k for a custom built car from the factory NOT for these copycat lookalike #CustomIzTheFuture

This car is absolute fucking garbage. 1. This doesn't compete with the Elantra N when it makes 4 more horsepower but weighs 300lbs more. 2. Calling this car a WRX is an insult to the pedigree of the WRX. This is little more than a Subaru Legacy GT, since they don't actually offer that trim anymore in the Legacy and it's basically the same size. 3. Subaru's cars are largely un-tunable because they break, and that's why they've fallen out of favor with youths. Even though the BRZ is an exception, it gets lapped by it's badge-engineered Toyota twin because Toyota has developed a better reputation as a tuner brand and managed to maintain that reputation despite making transportation appliances for about 15 years earlier this century. 4. "tuner" models used to be the go-fast bits and nothing else and as a result, they used to cost less than mid-level trims because they skipped the luxuries. Not the case here; this is barely less expensive than the top of the line model while giving you stupid shit you don't need like advanced driving assist and a giant touchscreen that weighs and costs entirely too much. They'll throw you off the track for listening to the radio while you drive. If this is what Subaru has turned into, they need to go the way of Mitsubishi and just focus on making SUVs because nobody wants a $43,000 'tuner ready' WRX that gets it's ass handed to it by an EcoBoost Mustang for $12,000 less.