Subaru WRX STI EJ20 Remaining Version introduced for Japan

Subaru is releasing an EJ20 Remaining Version of its WRX STI in Japan to commemorate the tip of manufacturing of the boxer engine of the identical title, capping off 30 years of showing in Subaru’s flagship efficiency automobile. 

The EJ20 was launched within the Subaru Legacy in 1989, and has since gone on to energy a few of the firm’s most iconic avenue and racing machines, together with the Japanese-market STI, which will probably be its final hurrah. 

Full particulars of the EJ20 Remaining Version will probably be posted on a devoted web page of Subaru’s home-market web site, which is presently up however comprises solely restricted data. What it does reveal is that allocation of the EJ20 Remaining Version will probably be by lottery. 

Subaru WRX STI EJ20 Remaining Version

In the meanwhile, we all know solely that will probably be geared up with a “balanced” EJ20 engine, 19-inch gold BBS wheels and an “EJ20 Remaining Version” placard. Subaru introduced Tuesday that it’s going to present the WRX STI EJ20 Remaining Version on the Tokyo Motor Present on Oct. 23. 

“WRX STI fashions with EJ20 engines are presently offered in Japan solely. STI fashions offered in abroad markets are powered by various kinds of engines and manufacturing of these engines will proceed,” Subaru mentioned in its announcement.

Translation? Each this particular mannequin and the notion of a “Remaining Version” imply little or no exterior of Japan, so do not go pondering this implies a brand new STI is true across the nook. You would be forgiven for doing so, because the WRX and STI stay on a generation-old platform. 

In addition, Subaru has been hitting us with a smattering of distinctive fashions, which is usually a superb signal that manufacturing of a given era is coming to a detailed. For 2018, we received the warmed-over WRX STI Sort RA, for “File Try,” which was the primary STI to put on that badge offered in america. 

This yr, Subaru gave us the STI S209, one other first for our shores, because the S201-208 appeared solely within the Japanese market. The 341-horsepower S209 is definitely the most-impressive manufacturing facility STI we have seen this aspect of the Pacific. 

As for a next-generation WRX and STI? We’ll have to attend a bit longer. Exterior of particular fashions, Subaru has already given us the thin on the 2020 fashions, and it is enterprise as standard.